Please join us on November 9th 5-7pm to hear about the “Walk Audit Academy – Springfield” effort and what participants found during their walk audits in Fall 2023. Food will be provided. This project was led by WalkMassachusetts and sponsored by AARP as part of a Community Challenge Grant. As part of the evening, we’ll …
October 27, 2023 Joint Committee on Transportation Brendan Crighton, Senate Chair Room 109-C Boston, MA 02133 William Straus, House Chair Room 134 Boston, MA 02133 RE: Testimony against Sidewalk Robot Bills (H3331, H3417, S2228) Dear Chairman Crighton and Chairman Straus, WalkMassachusetts is a non-profit organization that works to make walking safer and easier in Massachusetts …
Each month, we post about the fatal crashes in Massachusetts from the previous month, and share any trends that we see. For the full list of monthly posts, head here. Last month, we took a look at crashes listed in the MassDOT Crash Portal in August; six were identified as people walking. In this post, we’ll look …
Aaron Greiner joined us for this month’s WalkMassachusetts Network discussion to share about his organization CultureHouse and gave a presentation titled “Vacant to Vibrant: Creating Walkable Neighborhoods with Social Infrastructure.” Making an area walkable requires paying attention to more than what is on the street—also critical is what happens on the edges. Having good civic spaces creates communities …
A walk audit was conducted in Brockton on August 16th in collaboration with the Wildlands Trust Green Team, a youth service-learning program that employs 15 teens from the Brockton area to work on projects at D.W. Field Park. WalkMassachusetts facilitators worked with the Green Team to conduct a walk audit of D.W. Field Park, gathering …