Attached is the letter EALS sent urging the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) to fully fund the green line extension to Rte 16 and continue funding bicycle and pedestrian projects.
EALS comments on investment strategies

Community Event 51911 presentation

Many things going on in the month of May hopefully you’ll be able enjoy some of these fun events. First some Mass Ave news:

Mass Ave Easements: Town Meeting approved 135-32 the easements for rebuilding of sidewalks for the Mass Ave project.  While this should have been a no brainer, opponents who were elected to town [...]

Dear supporters of Livable Streets,
 
Now is the time for action. EALS has been pushing this project forward over the last two years.  We’ve done countless blog posts, press releases, have helped deny opponents a seat on the Board of Selectmen for the last two years, written letters, and attended the public meetings.  Our work has been [...]

I wasn’t surprised to see a Mass Ave opponents flier in my mailbox yesterday, after all they seem to have infinite money to attack this project between, consulting lawyers, engineers, and ad agency. They’ve stepped it up in the media too, three weeks of half page colored adds in the Advocate, online ads on wickedlocal.com [...]

After the months and months of waiting, MassDOT’s 25% hearing has finally been scheduled! Please mark your calendars for Tuesday April 12 at 7pm at Town Hall. Its imperative that supporters of the current Mass Ave Corridor plan show up in significant numbers to counteract Maria Romano, Eric Berger and the dozens of vociferous opponents [...]

Unfortunately the Town is still waiting for one of the departments at MassDOT to submit their comments on the 25% design drawings for the Mass Ave Corridor plan. While its unlikely these comments will be anything but positive, this is creating further delays in scheduling the 25% public hearing at Town Hall. Its still possible [...]

In the last 5-6 snowy weeks, traffic in the Cambridge-bound direction–especially in the morning–has backed up more than usual for one primary reason. There is currently a left-turn lane to Rt.16 and a SINGLE thru-lane/right-turn lane into Cambridge, rather than the typical left-turn lane and two thru-lanes.  Fewer cars are able to pass through that [...]

The Mass Ave corridor planning effort took an important, though not unexpected, step this week. MassDOT submitted their comments on the Town’s revised 25% plan and there appears to be no major stumbling blocks to moving the plan forward towards the 75% final design stage. The only set of comments still outstanding is from the [...]

East Arlington residents – as some of you know, the extension of the Green Line T is currently in design phase and will be complete by 2016. Currently, the plan is for the trolley to extend out to Tufts in phase I and to Rt 16 in a second phase. This will [...]