{"id":474,"date":"2015-12-13T10:01:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T15:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=474"},"modified":"2015-12-13T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T16:06:43","slug":"bostons-vision-zero-action-plan-and-sharing-the-arboretum-gateway-path-with-our-friends-at-livablestreets-10-in-1-street-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2015\/12\/13\/bostons-vision-zero-action-plan-and-sharing-the-arboretum-gateway-path-with-our-friends-at-livablestreets-10-in-1-street-talk\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston’s Vision Zero Action Plan and sharing the Arboretum Gateway Path with our friends at LivableStreets’ 10-in-1 Street Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of our effort to spread the word and gather more support for the Arboretum Gateway Path<\/a> concept, I was excited to have the opportunity to do a 7 minute presentation at LivableStreets Alliance’s 10-in-1 Street Talk<\/a>\u00a0last Wednesday night at the Old South Meeting House downtown. This is the\u00a010th anniversary for these talks, and they’re a great way to connect with folks who have similar interests and advocating for making our streets and public places better and safer for everyone. LivableStreets has posted some photos from the event on their facebook page<\/a>. I’ll share the video of the whole thing\u00a0as soon as I see it posted in a public forum, but I was most struck during the evening by\u00a0the\u00a0presentation from Mark Chase of\u00a0Somerville Neighborways<\/a>. You should check out the images on the website, especially the concept of stressing the importance and local ownership of key intersections with resident-organized and applied graphics painted directly on the pavement. Pretty impressive and something that we should look into doing\u00a0here in Roslindale – I have my own thoughts on where, and I’m sure others in our neighborhood do as well.<\/p>\n

The evening got off to a great start with the semi-surprise of the Mayor’s announcement of the city’s Vision Zero Action Plan<\/a> in a short video, which was followed by reinforcing remarks\u00a0from BTD Commissioner Gina Fiandaca. Chief of Streets Chris Osgood was also personally in attendance to emphasize the importance of the announcement. The whole action plan is worth looking at and taking part in as it moves forward. But I would say that among the most interesting \u00a0and important early action items is the institution of neighborhood slow speed zones in the Talbot-Norfolk triangle near Codman Square in Dorchester and between Washington\u00a0Street and Franklin Park\u00a0in Jamaica Plain’s Stonybrook section. My own understanding is that this is mainly a matter of lowering the speed limit from 30 to 20 mph and highlighting that fact with signage and enhanced crosswalk treatments and related\u00a0measures. Bottom line:\u00a0The pilots are a great idea, long past due,\u00a0yet\u00a0fundamentally every residential area in the city should get the same treatment, as soon as the city can get the standard package set next spring and summer through the pilots and then roll them out. The data on vehicle speed vs. fatality rates for pedestrians are uniform on pointing to the shift from 30 to 20 pm as being absolutely essential. If we can get actual vehicle speeds to that lower level on our neighborhood streets, we will have accomplished something of real and lasting value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of our effort to spread the word and gather more support for the Arboretum Gateway Path concept, I was excited to have the opportunity to do a 7 minute presentation at LivableStreets Alliance’s 10-in-1 Street Talk\u00a0last Wednesday night at the Old South Meeting House downtown. This is the\u00a010th anniversary for these talks, and […]<\/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":[56,151,32,27,13,16],"tags":[171,173,170,172,174,175,49],"class_list":["post-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-events","category-government","category-paths","category-safety","category-vision","tag-arboretum-gateway-path","tag-commissioner-fiandaca","tag-livablestreets","tag-mayor-walsh","tag-slow-streets","tag-somerville-neighborways","tag-vision-zero"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-7E","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}