Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets
We’ve got more work to do to keep making our streets safer for all of our residents. 1. TONIGHT, June 8, 6PM – 8PM: Somerville I-93 Viaduct Presentation. You can find more details and submit written comments here. This will be a three-year construction project, done at…
This past Wednesday, we had a great rally with local residents and elected officials that drew over 200 people to demand highway justice for residents living near Mystic Ave and McGrath Highway. The event was covered by many major news outlets, such as this article in…
Secretary Pete Buttigieg is right, and it’s not just in other states — here in Somerville, these decisions are still killing Somerville residents today. MassDOT continues to ignore the needs and safety of the lowest-income neighborhoods, ignoring calls to add anti-particulate barriers along I-93 and…
Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets (SASS)somervillesafestreets@gmail.com Somerville, MA May 19, 2021 Johnathan Gulliver, Highway AdministratorJamey Tesler, Acting SecretaryMassachusetts Department of Transportation10 Park Plaza, Suite 4160, Boston, MA Dear Administrator Gulliver and Secretary Tesler, Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets (SASS) is a coalition of hundreds of Somerville…
We recently asked our community to contact Somerville City Councilors about the Mayor’s mid-year budget request for the Mobility Department — it worked! One of SASS’s top asks was for an increase in the staff of the city’s Mobility department. This team manages the planning for…