{"id":3049,"date":"2023-04-25T10:22:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2023-04-25T10:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:22:21","slug":"dispatch-from-the-big-change-department-walkboston-has-changed-its-name-and-is-now-walkmassachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2023\/04\/25\/dispatch-from-the-big-change-department-walkboston-has-changed-its-name-and-is-now-walkmassachusetts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dispatch from the Big Change Department: WalkBoston has changed its name and is now WalkMassachusetts!"},"content":{"rendered":"

WalkBoston<\/strong>, the commonwealth’s 30+ year old premiere walking advocacy organization, has decided to fully embrace its long-standing statewide role and has accordingly changed its name to “WalkMassachusetts.”<\/a><\/strong> For those of you who’ve been following our little home-grown walking advocacy group here in Roslindale, the outsized role that what is now WalkMassachusetts has played has been obvious. They’ve helped us with walk audits (e.g., Roslindale Square (2016)<\/a>, Poplar Street (2022)<\/a>), been a fantastic technical resource generally, and led the charge on major efforts around city-level pedestrian safety improvements on our streets<\/a> and changes in law at the state level to protect all vulnerable road users<\/a>. We’ll let WalkMassachusetts have the extended last word on why they’ve chosen to take this step and what we can all expect going forward:<\/p>\n

“Last year we reaffirmed our Mission<\/strong>\u00a0and defined our\u00a0Vision<\/strong>\u00a0for the future:\u00a0a Massachusetts where people walking\u2014no matter their race, identity, age, ability, or lived experience\u2014feel safe, connected, and valued on our streets and sidewalks.<\/a><\/p>\n

“To make our Vision a reality, we established 3 goals:<\/p>\n

Goal 1<\/strong>: Advocate for inclusive, safe, and enjoyable places for people to walk.<\/p>\n

Goal 2<\/strong>: Work in places where people walking have the greatest need.<\/p>\n

Goal 3<\/strong>: Achieve policy and built environment change that is noticeable, replicable, and impactful.<\/p>\n

“This led to self-reflection on where and how we focus our work. The conclusion was a continued emphasis on equitably promoting walking across the state and a clear need to move forward as WalkMassachusetts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“In short, the name has changed, but the mission remains the same<\/a>:\u00a0making walking safer and easier in Massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment, and more vibrant communities.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WalkBoston, the commonwealth’s 30+ year old premiere walking advocacy organization, has decided to fully embrace its long-standing statewide role and has accordingly changed its name to “WalkMassachusetts.” For those of you who’ve been following our little home-grown walking advocacy group here in Roslindale, the outsized role that what is now WalkMassachusetts has played has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[16],"tags":[167,573],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vision","tag-walkboston","tag-walkmassachusetts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-Nb","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3050,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}