Road safety improvements under the microscope in City of Boston

Last week a group of advocates, including LivableStreets, sent a letter to Mayor Wu expressing concern over the city’s recent decision to review past safe streets infrastructure changes and to pause ongoing projects, including the removal of the Boylston Street bus lane. (For more details, read this StreetsblogMass article). Our letter emphasized the important safety improvements implemented by city staff and urged the Mayor to continue prioritizing progress rather than reversing previous efforts.

The Boston Cyclists Union is currently organizing a “Thank You” campaign—asking individuals like you to thank city staff for all their hard work. You can send your own message here! And TransitMatters is also organizing an email campaign for users of the Boylston St Bus Lane to push back on it's removal.

Calling All Mural Artists Interested in Street Murals

The City of Boston is seeking artists to create street murals at three intersections along Columbia Road as part of their Columbia Road Transportation Action Plan. If you are a Boston based mural artist, check out this opportunity and consider applying by March 14.

LivableStreets Staff Retreat 2k25

As we do every February, the LivableStreets team came together for our beginning of the year staff retreat. The LivableStreets team spent an afternoon playing games at Tavern of Tales, a local board game cafe/bar three blocks from the Roxbury Crossing stop. Makayla C emerged as our undisputed Uno champion.

The next day we returned to our Cambridge office for our annual staff retreat. Fueled by delicious local food, we jumped feet first into LivableStreets' strategic planning process. You'll hear more about this later in the year!

ICYMI: Social Media Announcement

LivableStreets is no longer active on X/Twitter. Find us instead on Bluesky, Instagram, or Threads! More links at linktr.ee/streetsboston.

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Full-Time

• TransitMatters
  • Executive Director
• America Walks
  • Communications Manager
• Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
  • Program Manager
• GreenRoots
  • Director of Finance
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  • Institutional Giving Specialist
• Groundwork Southcoast
  • Climate Resilience Coordinator
  • Senior Organizational Director
• City of Newton
  • Design Project Manager, Department of Public Works
• Charles River Conservancy
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• Friends of the Fells
  • Development and Communications Manager
• City of Brookline
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• The Center for Economic Democracy
  
  • Co-Executive Director
• MAPC
  • Manager of Housing & Neighborhood Development
  • Principal Land Use Planner
• MassDot
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  • Staff Architect
• City of Boston
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  • and more!
• Climate Mayors
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• Massachusetts Jobs with Justice
  
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• Boston Region MPO (Metropolitan Planning Organization)
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• Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition
  • Food Access Coordinator
  • Development + Communications Coordinator
• GreenRoots
  • Climate Justice Fellow
• Groundwork Southcoast
  • Climate Resilience Intern
  • Green Corps Member
  • and more!
• City of Brookline
  
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• Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy
  • Events & Partnerships Intern
• City of Boston
  • Farmers Market Fellow

Other opportunities

• Charles River Conservancy
  
  • Call for Art
• Boston By Foot
  
  • Tour Guide Volunteer

As a policy, LivableStreets will only advertise opportunities that include salary or compensation information. Have an opportunity to advertise? Send it to [email protected].