Somerville Pedestrian & Transit Advisory Committee

PTAC is launching a monthly newsletter! Subscribe so you never miss a meeting, letter, event, or opportunity to provide feedback: tinyletter.com/SomervillePTAC Our future Twitter use will be mostly limited to meeting agenda announcements. The newsletter will be your best PTAC source!

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: somervillema.gov/events/2023/10…

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: tinyletter.com/SomervillePTAC… Subscribe: tinyletter.com/SomervillePTAC (2/2)

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: somervillema.gov/events/2023/07… (1/2)

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

🚧 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 voice.somervillema.gov/springhillsewer

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.

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.

That new Green Line branch to Union Square? The T is closing it for 42 days this summer. trib.al/d8zsLwU

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.

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: somervillema.gov/news/city-some…

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

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 caasomerville.org/transit-program

@WillieBurnleyJr @ridewithvia All good things! 💫

@SomervillePTAC @ridewithvia No, it offers both! I was told (along with Cambridge City Councilors; yay regionalism) that municipalities could set up fixed-routes (aka virtual bus stops) and/or allow ridesharing. We also have the option of supplying drivers & vehicles or having those supplied by the platform.

I have an update on this! Last year, I put forward an order to explore North-South microtransit routes in Somerville & I was told a few days ago that Somerville is discussing the possibility with @ridewithvia. This would be a huge win for the community to fill MBTA gaps on hills.

@somershade1 @BenForWard3 We're with SASS on this one: drive.google.com/file/d/1QsrFy5…

@BenForWard3 asks after the Somerville Alliance for Safe Streets (SASS) letter in which we asked for a pilot of micro-mobility (shuttle busses or similar) providing North South transit (Mystic to Somerville Ave). The city is looking in to it. 4/?

I'm at finance for Parking, CPA, OSPCD, Mobility, Planning, Preservation & Zoning, Housing, Housing Stability, Economic Development, Redevelopment Authority, Public Space & Urban Forestry, Law, Damages to Persons & Property. somervillema.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.… 1/?

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: tinyletter.com/SomervillePTAC… Subscribe to PTAC newsletter: tinyletter.com/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: somervillema.gov/events/2023/06…

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!!!!)

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. ow.ly/L5Fi50OKFvv #BuildingABetterT

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.