A group of West Roxbury residents who say they support the city's plans to slow traffic on Centre Street will hold a "walk and roll" from the post office towards Holy Name Rotary at 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
However, they will stop short of the rotary, where West Roxbury residents who oppose the proposal and who managed to get it killed under the Walsh administration, will hold a standout, to reduce the odds of a confrontation.
In May, Boston officials announced they had revived the basic idea of reducing Centre Street's current four travel lanes to three, with pedestrian islands and new traffic signals and bike lanes, as a way to reduce the odds of pedestrians getting killed or hit by a car while crossing the street.
Opponents say the plan will destroy the street.
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Every time I read “road diet†…
By Lee
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 4:00pm
… I first think wild game connoisseurs who collect and cook fresh road kill.
Oh no, now I will as well.
By Tim Mc.
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 9:49pm
But yeah, the one time I've had road deer it was pretty tasty!
Waste not, want not.
By Lee
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 10:22pm
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This is all a culture war
By anon
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 5:54pm
This is all a culture war battle. The opposition is being run by a Trump-supporting member of the Ward 20 Republican Committee - Steve Morris. That’s not a coincidence. He screams about bicyclist communists from Cambridge invading “his†neighborhood. They’re not serious people and Mayor Wu is right to completely ignore them.
This will do more than save lives
By b from Ros
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 6:24pm
It's good for business too...
Centre street is an awful place to be on foot.
I cannot understand why Centre street businesses are against this one if (and I can acknowledge "if") parking can be preserved to the levels noted.
This will turn an area only fit for traveling through to a place worth arriving at.
If roadway capacity seemingly stays the same, new traffic (capacity) from cyclists and better pedestrian access will expand access to local businesses.
Maybe Chase bank will hear
By anon
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 6:34pm
Maybe Chase bank will hear their pain and decide to fill commercial space. Or maybe another smoothie place that doesn't last. City Hall needs to look at all the commercial space that developers and their top level brokers have left vacant for years. (Eh hem, Velo JP.)
Look. Let's face it. It's at
By anon
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 6:45pm
Look. Let's face it. It's at the point that any method of transportation has been taken over by bad drivers, bad pedestrians, bad scooter operators, and bad cyclists. Y'all guilty of not following the rules and doing what the traffic lights say. Including me. I guess I've lived here too long. This is Boston.
Center St will be safer if
By GFN
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 8:10pm
The judge never allows Kendra Lara to get behind the wheel ever again.
And I hope
By GFN
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 8:16pm
BPD checks her cell phone usage at the time of the "accident".
I'll bet there isn't any
By GFN
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 8:19pm
follow up here or in the Boston Globe if she has to pay restitution to the home owner
Carrying on a conversation with yourself
By spin_o_rama
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 10:01pm
Or did you forget to login to your other account?
I'm willing to bet any follow up, including what you stated, will be covered by Uhub and the Globe
Aidan, is that you?!
He is busy turning a mistrial
By cinnamngrl
Tue, 07/11/2023 - 7:55am
He is busy turning a mistrial into a vast left wing conspiracy by law enforcement.
Original post edited
By adamg
Sun, 07/09/2023 - 8:28pm
The anti-road-diet protest was announced first, and the pro-road-diet people say they won't be walking right to the rotary, so: Story rewritten.
When will it end?
By hold
Mon, 07/10/2023 - 8:49am
What's next - two income households? strollers on sidewalks taking up valuable white male real estate? A woman mayor - and not from West Roxbury? WHEN WILL IT END???
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