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davis_squareNeighborways is a way to make safe, friendly travel on designated streets a reality. Mark Chase has been pushing on this and, receiving approval, needs help.
Read his note below and check out the Neighborways website to understand what the heck this is! I hope you like it as much as I do! http://www.somervillestreets.com/
Paul Bockelman
From Mark Chase:
Last Thursday night the Somerville Traffic Commission heartily endorsed the 2015 Neighborway Pilot Project. What does this mean? By the end of this summer we will see a low stress connection between the High School and Davis Square! Assuming people like this as much as we think they will, this is the first step in connecting every school, park and square in Somerville with a network of low stress kid friendly streets.
There’s a lot to do in the next month. If you’re interested in lending a hand here are some of things we are looking for for help:
Painting Somerville’s first street painting on Willoughby Street. We will get a permit to close Willoughby Street do to this on a Sunday in August. Exact date TBA. This will be posted on the Neighborways website.
Physically painting our planters and streets-- especially if you are a night owl as this will be after midnight. If you have a spray gun we can borrow, that would be especially helpful!
Building simple platforms that our planters will sit on (simple carpentry skills)
Flyering streets where our neighborways are planned so more people will know about and support the project. In particular if you know anyone who lives on Woodbine and/ or Montrose Streets; those are the streets where we could use some more outreach.
Other things we’ll need help with are musicians to entertain us while we paint Willoughby. If you know a fun band that can appeal to all ages of people, please let me know. Thanks for all your support!
Read his note below and check out the Neighborways website to understand what the heck this is! I hope you like it as much as I do! http://www.somervillestreets.com/
Paul Bockelman
From Mark Chase:
Last Thursday night the Somerville Traffic Commission heartily endorsed the 2015 Neighborway Pilot Project. What does this mean? By the end of this summer we will see a low stress connection between the High School and Davis Square! Assuming people like this as much as we think they will, this is the first step in connecting every school, park and square in Somerville with a network of low stress kid friendly streets.
There’s a lot to do in the next month. If you’re interested in lending a hand here are some of things we are looking for for help:
Painting Somerville’s first street painting on Willoughby Street. We will get a permit to close Willoughby Street do to this on a Sunday in August. Exact date TBA. This will be posted on the Neighborways website.
Physically painting our planters and streets-- especially if you are a night owl as this will be after midnight. If you have a spray gun we can borrow, that would be especially helpful!
Building simple platforms that our planters will sit on (simple carpentry skills)
Flyering streets where our neighborways are planned so more people will know about and support the project. In particular if you know anyone who lives on Woodbine and/ or Montrose Streets; those are the streets where we could use some more outreach.
Other things we’ll need help with are musicians to entertain us while we paint Willoughby. If you know a fun band that can appeal to all ages of people, please let me know. Thanks for all your support!
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Date: 2015-07-24 09:23 pm (UTC)