{"id":2500,"date":"2020-08-15T15:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T19:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T19:37:53","slug":"lower-south-street-wins-neighborhood-slow-streets-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2020\/08\/15\/lower-south-street-wins-neighborhood-slow-streets-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower South Street Wins Neighborhood Slow Streets Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speeding and other unsafe driver behavior on South Street is a major problem that the Lower South Street Neighborhood Association has been working on for years, including by twice applying to the City&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/transportation\/neighborhood-slow-streets\">Neighborhood Slow Streets<\/a> program. We were thus delighted to learn this area will be one of three communities to receive an award of traffic calming resources in the upcoming year. Check out the neighborhood association&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/pdf\/2018-08-21 LSSNA Slow Streets Application.pdf\">original 2017 application to the program for more background<\/a>. We&#8217;ve also included a map below of the affected area (outlined in red).<\/p>\n<p>Some of the possible traffic calming measures include speed humps, raised intersections, streamlined signage, better road markings, and ways to make the South Street and Archdale Road intersection safer for pedestrians. Until recently, the City has claimed that speed humps and bumps were not permissible on most city streets (including South Street, but BTD recently changed its policy and indicated that it is open to considering the construction of speed humps on this street.<\/p>\n<p>We understand that BTD will be conducting community outreach over the next few weeks through postcards to every household in the area, Zoom meetings, and perhaps in-person socially distanced events.<\/p>\n<p>Interested residents are invited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/departments\/transportation\/lower-south-street-neighborhood\">sign-up on the City Website for emails about &#8220;meetings and project milestones.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 We&#8217;ll also post updates here as we receive them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2501\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 658px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2501\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2020\/08\/15\/lower-south-street-wins-neighborhood-slow-streets-award\/lower-south-street-area\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?fit=828%2C1099&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"828,1099\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lower South Street Area\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Lower South Street Slow Streets Area&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Lower South Street Slow Streets Area&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?fit=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?fit=648%2C861&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2501\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?resize=648%2C861&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Lower South Street Area\" width=\"648\" height=\"861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?resize=771%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 771w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?resize=768%2C1019&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Lower-South-Street-Area.png?w=828&amp;ssl=1 828w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Lower South Street Slow Streets Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speeding and other unsafe driver behavior on South Street is a major problem that the Lower South Street Neighborhood Association has been working on for years, including by twice applying to the City&#8217;s Neighborhood Slow Streets program. We were thus delighted to learn this area will be one of three communities to receive an award [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[522,283,82,187],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lower-south-street-neighborhood-association","tag-neighborhood-slow-streets","tag-south-street","tag-traffic-calming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-Ek","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2506,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions\/2506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}