Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee

Mayor-appointed body of Somerville community members working alongside @SomervilleCity staff to improve conditions for pedestrians and transit riders.

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

PTAC is launching a monthly newsletter! Subscribe so you never miss a meeting, letter, event, or opportunity to provide feedback: https://t.co/vQf9sBPTRc

Our future Twitter use will be mostly limited to meeting agenda announcements. The newsletter will be your best PTAC source!

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

Walk and roll with us on Glen Street! Next Tuesday, Oct. 24 at 6:00pm, join PTAC, @culturehousecc, & @neighborways to help inform the designs of a new Neighborway. We'll meet at the bike racks outside the Capuano school. Event and project details: https://t.co/0tKif8gJsA

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

PTAC's July newsletter is also out! Read a summary of last month's meeting where we explored alternative approaches to traffic enforcement & road safety w/ @StreetsBoston and City staff.

Read the July newsletter: https://t.co/qTYMo8VThS

Subscribe: https://t.co/vQf9sBPTRc

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[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

PTAC meets tomorrow, July 20, 6:30-8pm! 🥳

Focus will be Development Review 101: how Mobility interfaces w/ developers + the state of transit zoning/parking minimums.

We'll also give feedback on the Community Path Ext.

Details & link to join: https://t.co/d3RTjnLXf5

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[Ben Ewen-Campen @BenForWard3]

On Thursday, we were updated that the City is doing everything they can open the last remaining stretch of the Community Path (behind the High School between School St & Medford) in time for the beginning of the school year this fall. No guarantees, but that’s the goal

[Ben Ewen-Campen @BenForWard3]

🚧 Highland Ave detour is in full effect now, as sewer reconstruction progresses in front of the High School. Official detour shown in this image, and details available here https://t.co/aEE5jkPpQ8

[Mike Connolly @MikeConnollyMA]

Today, Reps. Uyterhoeven and Barber are joining with me to write to MassDOT Secretary Fiandaca, the MBTA Board, and GM Eng, expressing our concerns about a highway repair project that is causing a 42-day loss of transit service for Somerville's Environmental Justice communities.

[Mike Connolly @MikeConnollyMA]

Here’s a look from under the Squires Bridge in Somerville, where @MassDOT will spend 42 days this summer repairing those rusty steel beams. Green Line service to Union Square will be shut down starting July 18 because the power to the catenary lines must be turned off for safety during the repair work. Obviously, the public is in no position trust anything the @MBTA says, and so I will continue pushing for answers and appropriate accommodations and mitigation for our community as we continue to learn more about what is going on and as we assess the veracity of what we’ve been told.

[The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe]

That new Green Line branch to Union Square? The T is closing it for 42 days this summer. https://t.co/ljbsMOrYJC

[Somerville Infrastructure @SomervilleInfr1]

New curbing installed on Everett Ave at Cross Street for the bump out and future raised crosswalk across Cross Street as part of our Pearl & 6 project.

[City of Somerville @SomervilleCity]

Join us for a ribbon cutting ceremony Weds., June 28, at 1pm to celebrate the GLX Community Path Extension! The event will take place rain or shine where the CPX begins on the eastern side of where the path intersects with Lowell St. Learn more: https://t.co/PCga7T8rCl

[Somerville Infrastructure @SomervilleInfr1]

First night of 🔴 paint went great for extending the Broadway Bus Lane, much more to come! 🚍🚲

[CAAS @CAASomerville]

CAAS and @SomervilleCity are teaming up to distribute 500 free, unlimited monthly MBTA passes in Somerville! If you're enrolled in a public benefits program or earn up to x2 the federal poverty level, you're eligible to apply! Learn more and apply at https://t.co/Ut3AUbTQpa

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

@WillieBurnleyJr @ridewithvia All good things! 💫

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

@somershade1 @BenForWard3 We're with SASS on this one: https://t.co/virEW5AVRA

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

Also, PTAC's monthly newsletter is out! Read about our May meeting with the Parking Department on their enforcement processes, our FY24 budget priorities, & more.

Read June newsletter: https://t.co/4uUKGxIZy0

Subscribe to PTAC newsletter: https://t.co/vQf9sBQrGK

[Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee @SomervillePTAC]

PTAC's monthly meeting is this Thursday, June 15, 6:30-8pm! Focus will be a discussion on traffic enforcement in Somerville, feat. @StreetsBoston presenting their report "Dismantling Law Enforcement's Role in Traffic Safety."

Details & link to join: https://t.co/bP3ENs5KCF

[City of Somerville @SomervilleCity]

This is it. Workers remove the last bit of construction fencing from the Community Path Extension June 10, 2023, 7 a.m. The #CPX is open! (We try to be restrained with exclamation points usually. But this is, well, an exclamation-worthy moment!!!!)

[MBTA @MBTA]

On June 10, #GreenLineExtension Community Path will open to the public. In partnership with @SomervilleCity, it is the final connection from Bedford to Cambridge & Boston & runs parallel to Medford Branch with access to 4 GLX stations.

https://t.co/muung408TS

#BuildingABetterT

[Mike Connolly @MikeConnollyMA]

The GLX Community Path Extension will finally open to the public tomorrow! Join us on the path at 10 am to celebrate the opening at 112 Central St.