{"id":494,"date":"2015-12-31T22:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T03:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/?p=494"},"modified":"2015-12-31T22:19:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T03:19:29","slug":"looking-back-at-2015-the-walkup-roslindale-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/2015\/12\/31\/looking-back-at-2015-the-walkup-roslindale-year-in-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking back at 2015 &#8211; The WalkUP Roslindale Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK. That&#8217;s a bit more than this really is. I&#8217;ll point out the 3 things that seemed most significant to me this year and others can give their views in the comments if they see fit:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong><em>WalkUP Roslindale\u00a0was formed!<\/em><\/strong> This happened in the late spring when Adam Kessel and I met for lunch and then decided to run with\u00a0the idea of a collaborative organization made up of people who live and\/or work in Roslindale to carry forward the idea of making ours the most walkable neighborhood in the city. Our most active collaborator\u00a0on this has been Steve Gag but there have been many others &#8212; if you take a look at the signers on the Taft Hill Park comment letter, you&#8217;ll get a sense who has been most involved to date.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>WalkUP Roslindale helped shine a light on East Roslindale<\/strong><\/em>. The fight\u00a0to raise the level of expectation for the natural, public, and private realms in this part of our neighborhood is only just beginning. But the folks over there are dedicated and they know what they&#8217;re after. We&#8217;re happy to have connected with them and look forward to continuing to support\u00a0their efforts in 2016.<\/li>\n<li><em><strong>WalkUP Roslindale conducted\u00a0a Walk Audit in Roslindale Square<\/strong><\/em>. This was a collaboration with WalkBoston and we did it late in the year. December 5 to be exact. We will have more to say about what the walk audit revealed (when it&#8217;s done, we&#8217;ll post it in full) and what look like the short, medium, and long term steps we can take to improve walkability in our neighborhood&#8217;s center.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK. That&#8217;s a bit more than this really is. I&#8217;ll point out the 3 things that seemed most significant to me this year and others can give their views in the comments if they see fit: WalkUP Roslindale\u00a0was formed! This happened in the late spring when Adam Kessel and I met for lunch and then [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,16],"tags":[113,181,180],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-vision","tag-east-roslindale","tag-roslindale-walk-audit","tag-walkup-roslindale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6X5no-7Y","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","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=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":495,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions\/495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkuproslindale.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}