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7:00 - 9:00 pm tonight

Tonight, 6:00pm


Deval Patrick wrote an op-ed in the Globe yesterday about reforming Massachusetts transportation. He advocated consolidation and system-wide planning, and emphasized multi-modal transportation. Proposing an elimination of the Turnpike Authority, Patrick outlined a plan to turn over roads that go to Logan and the South Boston Seaport (including Mass Pike east of route 128) to Massport, while the Highway Department would take over the turnpike west of 128. Tolls will be eliminated on the western pike as well, as these funds cannot be used to fund the Big Dig. Other tolls will be implemented to help pay for construction and upkeep. In general, Patrick's plan focused on tolls and roads, not the T.

LivableStreets, a group dedicated to making our streets more, well, livable, hosted a StreetTALK with transportation engineer Gary Toth on Thursday. The talk raised a lot of questions but also provided a lot of answers regarding how communities can make their streets shared spaces where both people and cars can function.

Boston is well-known as a walkable city, but that does it mean it's a safe and walkable city? In an excellent feature article on the relationship between drivers and pedestrians, the Globe calls us "a city where walking is the most dangerous form of transportation (over the last five years, the number of pedestrians killed by cars was double that of drivers and passengers killed in car accidents)."