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 …
On October 3rd, the staff of WalkMassachusetts organized a demonstration day in East Boston with members of Caminatas Seguras, a walking group for residents that is convened and facilitated by GreenRoots, an environmental justice organization operating in Chelsea and East Boston. This demonstration day was a civic engagement opportunity for residents to make temporary improvements …