Some of you might remember that a meeting about the Beacon Street Reconstruction was cancelled due to the Hurricane; a new meeting has been scheduled by the city. Details below:
[x-posted from PSNA]
For those of you on the Somerville side of Porter and live along Beacon Street, a public meeting will be held on the Beacon Street Reconstruction project this Tuesday November 13th at 6pm in the Kennedy School Cafeteria on Cherry St. The Somerville Transportation Director and Ward 2 Alderman will be presenting the latest design proposal.
One of the issues that has sparked some controversy about this project is the removal of all parking on the even-side of the street from Oxford to Washington St. to accommodate the installation of 7' cycletracks. This will be 111 parking spaces that will be permanently removed and could cause serious issues for businesses and residents in the area. Part of the reason for removing this much park was on the basis of a parking study conducted on 3 days this year: May 19th, May 23rd, and June 19th.
( Read more about issues with the parking study behind the cut )