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East Roslindale Traffic Calming in the News
Tweet American Legion Highway / Cummins Highway Intersection (Image Courtesy Google Maps) Our friends at the Roslindale Bulletin have done an excellent job of keeping the spotlight on WalkUP...
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About Tuesday’s Pedestrian Death on Washington Street at Blue Ledge Drive
Tweet Family photograph of Silvia Acosta (with Mayor Marty Walsh) Our deepest sympathies go out to the family of Silvia Acosta, a 78 year-old resident of our neighborhood who was tragically struck and...
View ArticleWalkBoston offering Ped 101 Advocacy Training – Multiple Dates/Times in...
Tweet Here’s WalkBoston’s brief announcement at the EventBrite page: In 2016, WalkBoston is rolling out free, beginner advocacy trainings called “Ped 101” – and we’d love you to come! Our office is...
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Pedestrian Hit by Car at Hyde Park Ave
Tweet Site of the Crash at Hyde Park Ave and Arlington Street (image courtesy Google Maps) We learned with dismay of another recent serious pedestrian incident in our neighborhood, this one at the...
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Third Pedestrian Incident in Rozzie in Two Weeks
Tweet Firth and Washington Street We were yet again saddened to hear of another car hitting a pedestrian in Roslindale; this is the third such incident in about two weeks (Blue Ledge Drive / Hyde Park...
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Roslindale Square Walk Audit – Hot off the Presses
Tweet We’re pleased to publish the report documenting the Walk Audit of Roslindale Square that we did with WalkBoston back in December. There are lots of issues to be addressed, but also exciting...
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Mother and Baby Struck by Car in Roxbury
Tweet WalkBoston recently sounded the alarm that serious (and fatal) pedestrian incidents are fast becoming a near-weekly occurrence in Boston. The latest such event occurred last night in Roxbury,...
View ArticleDante Ramos just nailed it in last Friday’s Globe
Tweet We’ve all been following the tragic spike in deaths resulting from car-on-human-being-walking crashes in our city, including our neighborhood, to start this year. As Dante Ramos asserted in an...
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Traffic Calming on American Legion Highway in the News
Tweet Kudos to the Mount Hope Mount Canterbury Neighborhood Association, Rick Yoder, Lisa Beatman, and the Roslindale Bulletin (especially Jeff Sullivan) for keeping the need for traffic calming in...
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Report of another neighbor on foot struck by a car in Roslindale
Tweet This time at Belgrade Avenue and Walworth Street (near Fallon Field), this morning around 7 am. Only report so far is on Keep Roslindale Quirky’s Facebook page (reproduced below for those...
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LANA Hosting South & Walter Streets Visioning Session on April 7, 2016...
Tweet South and Walter Streets Visioning Session Flyer WalkUP Roslindale ally Longfellow Area Neighborhood Association is hosting a visioning session regarding the South and Walter Street Corridor on...
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Roslindale Bulletin on 20 MPH City Speed Limit
Tweet Roslindale Bulletin: City Speed Limit could Fall to 20mphWe appreciate how well the Roslindale Bulletin continues to cover WalkUP Roslindale’s core issues. Earlier this month, Christopher...
View ArticleWalkUP Testimony at City Vision Zero Hearing
Tweet The Boston City Council held a hearing today on Vision Zero and traffic calming in the city. WalkUP Roslindale attended and submitted testimony, reproduced below and available as an official...
View ArticleThe last 10 days – Eventful
Tweet They’ve been a bit crazy, truth be told, as follows: “Le Green T est arrivé!!!” For those of us in Peters Hill, the arrival of Green T to the intersection of Walter and South a week ago Thursday...
View Article148 Days and Counting — Waiting for action near Washington @ Blue Ledge
Tweet It is now 148 days since Roslindale resident Silvia Acosta was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver while walking in a crosswalk near the intersection of Washington Street with Blue Ledge...
View Article154 Days and Counting: We continue our watch for action at Washington/Blue Ledge
Tweet We posted here last week about our continued frustration over the lack of action at the intersection of Washington and Blue Ledge where Roslindale resident Silvia Acosta was killed by a...
View ArticleCounting down to rapid response improvements at Washington/Blue Ledge – 30...
Tweet I understand from a conversation I had late yesterday with Charlotte Fleetwood, BTD’s Vision Zero Coordinator, that the expectation is that the full set of safety improvements for Washington @...
View ArticleCounting down to rapid response improvements at Washington & Blue Ledge: 6...
Tweet Still nothing further to report. We’re down to 6 days to go to what we understand is the deadline and we’ve risen to 179 days since the crash. As we are documenting here and as the Vision Zero...
View Article4 Minutes for Walkability — What is it, how is it achieved, and what’s it...
Tweet If you have time to click on this link at grist: The key to fighting climate change and mortality? Walkable cities. read the intro, and then watch the short video — I believe that’s a 4 minute...
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201 Days and Counting: An update on the rapid response at Washington & Blue...
Tweet We last reported on this important location a couple of weeks ago, when construction notices went up and we were eager to see the thoughtful plan that BTD had prepared become a reality. Now, as...
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