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Another pedestrian fatality in our neighborhood — this time at Morton/Canterbury
Tweet Intersection of Morton and Canterbury The crash — single driver crashing into a single pedestrian — happened this past Saturday night at the intersection of Morton Street and Canterbury Street,...
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Stonybrook Neighborhood Slow Streets — We see what VZB means by the term and...
Tweet Readers of this blog may recall that we offered written testimony to the Boston City Council at their hearing on Vision Zero in May of this year — WalkUP Testimony at City Vision Zero Hearing —...
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Rally for Safer Streets – City Hall Plaza – September 29, 2016 6pm-7pm
Tweet WalkUP Roslindale is joining with all of its allies in the Vision Zero Coalition to encourage everyone to turn out for a major Rally for Safer Streets. We will gather at City Hall Plaza on...
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Washington @ Blue Ledge – Flex posts are now on the ground!
Tweet We are happy to report that flex posts have gone in the ground at Washington & Blue Ledge. Our sincerest thanks to BTD and PWD for moving the Vision Zero crash response here to this...
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Ruts and Ridges on Washington Street – WalkUP Coalition Letter
Tweet WalkUP Roslindale is always on the lookout for opportunities to join forces with our friends at Rozzie Bikes and Roslindale Village Main Street to improve the walkability, vitality, and...
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Boston City Council Transportation Policy Briefings
Tweet We are delighted that the Boston City Council’s Committee on Parks, Recreation & Transportation has announced a series of public discussions, in partnership with Northeastern University...
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Child hit by car on Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale
Tweet On this World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims (according to the World Health Organization, 1.2 million people killed every year by traffic violence and 50 million injured), we are...
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REMINDER: Call to Action – Standouts to Promote New 25 mph Citywide Speed...
Tweet REMINDER: Despite the cold temps forecast, we are going to stick with our first standout tomorrow morning, March 4, 2017 @ 11 am, at Washington & Cummins in Roslindale Square (Adams Park...
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Standout #1 in the books — Cold but spirited!
Tweet Pictured: Liz, Matt, and Steve (L to R). Your standout standouts this morning were a magnificent 7 – Mses. Phillips, Graham-Meredith, and Moshtaghi, and Messrs. Guptill, Tedrow, Gag, and your...
View ArticleUPDATED: WUR 25mph Standout #2 – Saturday, March 11, 2017 – 11 am –...
Tweet WalkUP Roslindale’s Standout #2 is ON. Location is noted above. We’ll convene near the fire station on the Cummins side and fan out around the intersection for an hour of promoting the new...
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25 MPH SPEED LIMIT STANDOUT #3, AKA BEYOND THUNDERDOME – SATURDAY, MARCH 18,...
Tweet The forecast is for much warmer weather. I am accordingly hoping we won’t look this cold: And your faithful correspondent will stand a round of coffee/hot chocolate at Green T to all...
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Let 10,000 flowers – or at least 4 NSS applications – bloom in Roslindale!...
Tweet We here at WalkUP Roslindale have been talking up BTD’s Neighborhood Slow Streets (NSS) program since they released the application package a few weeks ago. We even went so far as to host a...
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Standout #3 – Big numbers on a beautiful day for Beyond Thunderdome!
Tweet Here’s the photo: I count a total of 13 in the photo who held signs (there are a couple of fellow travelers mixed in) and one of our number took it, so that’s 14 – one more person than we had...
View Article25 mph Speed Limit Standout #4 – Washington @ Blue Ledge — 11 am on 25 March...
Tweet No peppy name this time. This will be the fourth and final installment of our standout series. The location this time is at the main southern entrance to our neighborhood and the place where our...
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It’s a wrap – 4th and final standout is in the books! Thanks all!!!
Tweet A cloudy but not too cold day. We had six stalwarts (see photo below, one of our number had to leave a couple minutes earlier) and note that the Dynamic Duo of Guptill and Tedrow kept their...
View ArticleNSS – A pretty popular idea, it turns out…
Tweet …there were 47 applications for 2 to 3 selected winners. If you’re keeping score at home, that’s about the same ratio as the Hunger Games or the acceptance rate for getting into Stanford. The...
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Haley School – Safe Routes to School Walk
Tweet WUR/American Legion Corridor stalwarts Lisa Beatman and Rick Yoder were joined by your correspondent and Steve Gag (in the photo, far left) in participating in the Haley School’s 4th walk this...
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Crossing at Washington & Basile gets some attention and we are thrilled and...
Tweet Flexpost We know WalkUP Roslindale’s walk audit in December 2015 wasn’t the first time members of our neighborhood identified the crosswalk at the intersection of Washington and Basile streets...
View ArticleNeighborhood Slow Streets Announcement Made! And Rozzie has a winner!!
Tweet We last discussed the NSS program under Vision Zero back at the end of March, when 47 applications, 4 of them from our beloved patch of soil, were submitted. At that time, we thought only 2...
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What’s Tactical Urbanism, you say? Watch this 8-minute video…
Tweet Original Vimeo link. We’ve seen some of this in our own neighborhood, like the street mural at Conway and South. Where else in Roslindale should we consider this? Ideas welcome in the comments!
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