EALS submitted comments on the 75% plan to the town in early December with ideas to incorporate into the project moving forward.
You can read the memo here.

Paul Lukez of Paul Lukez Architecture was the guest speaker at Arlington High School as part of the Arlington Community Education Tuesday Night Conversations Series, moderated by David Witford. The title of this particular discussion was Creating Sustainable Suburbs.
Paul Lukez started the discussion with a presentation on what it means to be sustainable and some [...]

 
Hi All -  please join us for the EALS Coalition’s next community meeting on Thursday, Oct 20 at 7:30 pm. (Because of a scheduling conflict at the Fox, the event will be held at the Arlington Center for the Arts off Mass Ave between Tufts and Foster Street.) Please stop by to meet your neighbors, learn about EALS, [...]

Hello East-siders and others,
We hope you had a great summer and are looking forward to a beautiful fall season. Over the summer, we and other EALS volunteers have remained busy on “other” projects as the Mass Ave Corridor plan has gone beyond the 25% design stage and into final design.
 One of our primary initiatives recently [...]

Dear MBTA Riders and Interested Parties,
The MBTA is hosting follow-up meetings on Bus Route 77 as part of the Key Bus Route Improvement Program. Based on community feedback, preliminary recommendations have been refined to the following types of improvements: bus stop consolidation, new bus shelters, benches and trash receptacles. Bus stop consolidation will result in [...]

Read letter here.

Click here for the new Hardy School map.  Thanks to all of those who made this possible.
Here is a useful link from MassBike for parents about bike safety.
East Arlington Livable Streets (EALS) Coalition–is working with the Town’s Transportation Advisory Committee, the schools and the PTO’s to promote walking and biking to the Hardy School, both [...]

June 30, 2011
MBTA Project Director for Operations
45 High St.
Boston, MA 02116
Email: keybusroutes@mbta.com
Re: Comments on Route 77 Key Bus Route Improvement
Dear Director:
The East Arlington Livable Streets (EALS) Coalition is a neighborhood-based advocacy organization founded in 2008. EALS has almost 250 supporters on our e-mail list, over 475 fans on our Facebook page and we aspire to [...]

Have you noticed these signs at the Lake Street/Minuteman Bikeway crossing? The signs were recently installed after a year-long effort begun by supporters of the East Arlington neighborhood businesses to promote businesses in the area. The Lake St./Mass. Ave. commercial area has developed into an eclectic offering of small entrepreneurs, fine and casual family eateries, [...]

Dear EALS supporters – It’s our pleasure to announce that the EALS Coalition was awarded a $1000 mini-grant from the National Center for Safe Routes to School to use to promote walking and biking to Hardy School this fall. We were one of 25 communities chosen out of 249 applicants for the mini-grants. According to [...]