{"id":3584,"date":"2025-03-05T09:41:51","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T14:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=3584"},"modified":"2025-03-09T11:02:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T15:02:46","slug":"tell-the-city-what-street-safety-means-to-you-by-this-friday-3-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2025\/03\/05\/tell-the-city-what-street-safety-means-to-you-by-this-friday-3-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell the City What Street Safety Means to You by This Friday 3\/7"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: View <a href=\"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/WalkUP-Roslindale-letter-RE-30-Day-Review-of-Street-Safety-Improvements.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WalkUP Roslindale&#8217;s letter<\/a> to the administration.<\/h4>\n<p>Mayor Wu&#8217;s administration has announced a sudden 30-day &#8220;Review&#8221; of safety and transit improvements that have been implemented in the past three years. This could signal a pivot away from multimodal infrastructure &amp; safe streets (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/02\/28\/metro\/wu-review-street-infrastructure-changes-bus-bike-lanes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/02\/28\/metro\/wu-review-street-infrastructure-changes-bus-bike-lanes\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741269838320000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3Lw2sGebBg8VJyxFbF7YDF\">Boston Globe<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mass.streetsblog.org\/2025\/02\/28\/mayor-wu-begins-review-of-recent-street-safety-upgrades-heres-how-to-weigh-in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/mass.streetsblog.org\/2025\/02\/28\/mayor-wu-begins-review-of-recent-street-safety-upgrades-heres-how-to-weigh-in&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741269838320000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3P6cEY5fEBdxVxoTn-r3rE\">Streetsblog Mass<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonbetterstreets.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.bostonbetterstreets.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741269838320000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3DYQrGd0rrMVpa4sWu-TKt\">Boston Better Streets<\/a>).\u00a0It is critical that we all tell the city how much we appreciate the improvements, and how we use this infrastructure every day and rely on it for our safety.<\/p>\n<p>There are good people who work in the administration who probably want to keep the safety improvements they&#8217;ve helped build over the past three years, but the people they&#8217;re hearing from are those who want it dismantled; <strong>our officials need to hear from people who use and support it in order to justify keeping it, and they need to hear by this Friday, March 7th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>In your message, we suggest highlighting 1-2 specific improvements and how you use them and how they how they have affected your life. Here are maps of the City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/boston.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap=e3b6352fc5bc403886c9f4e5ec746d29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/boston.maps.arcgis.com\/apps\/mapviewer\/index.html?webmap%3De3b6352fc5bc403886c9f4e5ec746d29&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741269838320000&amp;usg=AOvVaw17NfhLbXeaWlSJWBGwKJzi\">bus improvement projects<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/925eb7fd89c24c5f9c07bcc20ee9ea74\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/925eb7fd89c24c5f9c07bcc20ee9ea74\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741269838320000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3PzzUcVYRfr6O2EY5DRJcG\">bike network<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/departments\/transportation\/transportation-projects-across-boston#map\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/departments\/transportation\/transportation-projects-across-boston%23map&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1741269838320000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3O-aekNQHW4lZ0BTt9NAbA\">road safety projects<\/a> for reference.<\/p>\n<p>We recommend <a href=\"mailto:Michael.brohel@boston.gov;mayor@boston.gov;michelle.wu@boston.gov?cc=tiffany.chu@boston.gov;vineet.gupta@boston.gov;jascha.franklin-hodge@boston.gov;mohammed.missouri@boston.gov;joshua.mccorkle@boston.gov;enrique.pepen@boston.gov;julia.mejia@boston.gov;Ruthzee.Louijeune@boston.gov;Erin.Murphy@boston.gov&amp;subject=Safe%20Streets\">emailing the mayor, BTD officials, and city councilors by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: View WalkUP Roslindale&#8217;s letter to the administration. Mayor Wu&#8217;s administration has announced a sudden 30-day &#8220;Review&#8221; of safety and transit improvements that have been implemented in the past three years. This could signal a pivot away from multimodal infrastructure &amp; safe streets (Boston Globe, Streetsblog Mass, Boston Better Streets).\u00a0It is critical that we all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[21,13,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bikes","category-safety","category-transit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-VO","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584","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\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3601,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}