State Senator Kenneth J. Donnelly
State House
Room 416-A
Boston, MA 02133
Re: Please support Bill H4728 for lower speed limits in urbanized areas
Dear Senator Donnelly,
The East Arlington Livable Streets (EALS) Coalition is a neighborhood-based advocacy organization founded in 2008. EALS has over 170 supporters on our e-mail list and over 400 fans on our Facebook page. [...]
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Help to pass House Bill 4728 to reduce the prevailing speed limit in Massachusetts urban areas from 30mph to 25mph. Safety advocates have long supported efforts to decrease the speed limit, and this is the closest it has ever been to passing! This bill, originally sponsored by Representative Denise Provost (Somerville), would significantly increase pedestrian [...] Two new bike racks were installed to support the growing number of students and faculty that are using sustainable transportation to get to school. The racks will play a key roll in supporting the fledgling Safe Routes to School volunteer led program that will enter its third year this fall. Let’s bike safe and fill [...] Bike Memo to Mass Ave Committee The Hardy Elementary School celebrated the culmination of Human Power month on Monday, June 7, with a mountain of prizes for participants who turned in their Green Human Power May/June Calendar. The calendar marked days kids either walked or biked to school and added up their mileage. Here are the stats for 2010. Sustainable Arlington and the East Arlington Livable Streets (EALS) Coalition support the placement of bus shelters in Arlington to encourage the use of public transportation and reduce the Town’s overall carbon footprint. It is our groups’ understanding that the Town has secured funding from the State, as part of the Mass. Ave redesign, to provide [...] Boston officials say they’ve gotten state and federal approvals to install bike lanes on Massachusetts Avenue, a key downtown artery, from Boston Medical Center to Symphony Hall. The lanes will be added as part of an $18 million reconstruction of the avenue, the mayor’s office said The project will be 80 percent federally-funded and 20 [...] I got the chance to visit Portland Oregon last week for business and was really excited to spend an afternoon seeing for myself the city that many people hold up as a model for sustainable transportation. I’ve wanted to visit for many years and my expectations on what I would see included something like this: [...] If you plan to bicycle during Bay State Bike Week, May 17-21, 2010, |
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