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One Minute, One Slide: WalkMA & Framingham Youth Walking Advocates

One Minute, One Slide: WalkMA & Framingham Youth Walking Advocates

Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff. Text provided is as prepared for this year’s annual event on September 23, 2020 on Zoom. LeighAnne Taylor I’m LeighAnne Taylor, Program Manager at WalkBoston. The WalkMassachusetts Network is a statewide network of multi-sectoral groups working on walking across …

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One Minute, One Slide: Age-Friendly Walking in Boston and Beyond

One Minute, One Slide: Age-Friendly Walking in Boston and Beyond

Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff. Text provided is as prepared for this year’s annual event on September 23, 2020 on Zoom.  Wendy Landman Aging in your own community is what almost everybody says they want to do. Massachusetts is working to live up to …

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One Minute, One Slide: Walking & Communicating in the time of COVID

One Minute, One Slide: Walking & Communicating in the time of COVID

Below is a “One Minute, One Slide” presentation shared by a member of the WalkBoston staff. Text provided is as prepared for this year’s annual event on September 23, 2020 on Zoom.  Brendan Kearney I’m Brendan Kearney, WalkBoston’s deputy director.  March 18th, we launched a weekly storytelling email effort that we called “Keep Walking” It …

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WalkBoston testimony to a joint meeting of the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board and the MassDOT Board

WalkBoston testimony to a joint meeting of the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board and the MassDOT Board

Testimony as prepared for joint meeting of the MBTA Fiscal and Management Control Board and the MassDOT Board, September 21, 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic, public comment to the Boards is via short phone messages that are played to the Board members at the beginning of each meeting. The I-90 Allston Project was on the agenda for the …

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New Book: ‘Right of Way’

New Book: ‘Right of Way’

Angie Schmitt’s new book, Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America, is now available from Island Press. Angie was the longtime national editor at Streetsblog and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Bicycling, GOOD, and Landscape Architecture Magazine. Right of Way documents the …

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