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Comment Letter: Support for Late Night MBTA Service

August 15, 2016
Fiscal and Management Control Board
Massachusetts Department of Transportation
10 Park Plaza, Suite 3910
Boston, MA 02116
Attn: Chairman Joseph Aiello

Re: Support for Late Night Service

Dear Chairman Aiello,

WalkBoston has followed the news that the Conservation Law Foundation (“CLF”), Alternatives for Community and Environment (“ACE”) and Greater Four Corners Action Coalition (“Four Corners”) filed a complaint on July 26, 2016 asking the Federal Transit Administration compel the MBTA to implement an alternative to Late-Night Service that would reduce the disproportionately high and adverse effects canceling Late-Night Service had on low-income and minority riders.

WalkBoston has long worked with many community partners to improve the walking-transit connection because it is crucial to providing the necessary mobility options for transit dependent communities. We are writing to you today in support of the objectives of CLF’s suit to ensure that late night service is provided.

We look forward to an MBTA plan that helps to ensure that the Boston metropolitan area provides economic opportunity for all.

Best regards,
Wendy Landman
Executive Director

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Final details for Dudley Sq. Walk: Re-Discover Dudley, History in the Making!

When you arrive at Hibernian Hall & check in, you will receive a route map & a group number on a name tag that you can fill out; as soon as 25-30 people arrive to fill the group, a walk leader from one of the partner organizations will lead your group out. Due to the number of expected attendees, groups will start to leave as early as 4:45PM & continue to leave as groups fill.

Directions to Hibernian Hall (184 Dudley Street, Boston, MA 02119) can be found at the bottom of the event page at dudleysquarewalk.eventbrite.com

After the walk, we invite you to join us on the 3rd floor of Hibernian Hall for a reception & to hear brief remarks from Mayor Martin J. Walsh about the City’s role and efforts in Dudley. ACE, Boston Housing Authority, Discover Roxbury, Dudley Square Main Streets, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative, Madison Park Development Corporation, Nuestra Comunidad and WalkBoston will all have tables in the hall where you can learn more about each organization.

If you’re a Twitter user, we’d encourage you to use the hashtag #DudleyWalkBOS to tweet & share pictures along the route.

You can follow all the organizing groups on this Twitter list: https://twitter.com/WalkBoston/lists/may-2014-dudley-sq-walk

There is also a Facebook Event page set up for the walk:
https://www.facebook.com/events/426901314117582/427943210680059/

See you soon!