![]() As Mayor, Andrea will: Build A City of 15-Minute NeighborhoodsĪ 15-minute neighborhood is a community where residents live within a 15-minute walk from their basic, day-to-day needs, such as grocery stores, libraries, and parks. With equitable transportation, we can address unequal access and health impacts, provide efficient, reliable, and affordable options to all Bostonians, and improve health and safety on every street in every neighborhood. As we invest in our neighborhoods and build a green transportation economy for all Bostonians, Andrea will ensure that Bostonians living in “environmental justice” communities - neighborhoods most impacted by the impacts of climate change, bad transportation policies, and environmental racism - are able to access the jobs of tomorrow. She envisions a city of 15-minute neighborhoods, so that all Bostonians can share in the benefits of a safe, walkable, and prosperous city. Transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions comprise 29% of Boston’s total emissions - an urgent priority for our future and a fundamental opportunity to reshape our city equitably.Īndrea has a comprehensive vision to reconstruct a sustainable transportation network so we can build a more equitable Boston. The twin crises of COVID-19 and climate change have made painfully clear that our transportation system just doesn’t meet the needs of Bostonians, whether it’s a grueling bus commute, gridlocked roadways, poor sidewalks, or ancient trains. Andrea also sees first-hand the disproportionate impact of fossil-fuel pollution on neighborhoods like her own and knows that Boston’s transportation system drives and reinforces the deep inequities in the city. Growing up, Andrea lived this every day on her commute to Boston Public Schools, and she and her family continue to face a lack of reliable transit options living in Mattapan, the neighborhood with the longest commutes in the city. For other Bostonians, economic and social mobility is stymied by an unreliable bus network, aging transit infrastructure, and poorly designed streets and sidewalks. Learn more here.For some residents, Boston is dense and walkable, making it easy to participate in our diverse economy and green spaces. The bus rapid transit project total cost is approximately $114 million. The existing Route 28 bus line will be transformed into first-class bus rapid transit service with dedicated bus lanes and longer diesel-hybrid buses from Mattapan Station on the Red Line to Ruggles Station on the Orange Line with a direct connection to the Silver Line. ![]() Next, the project will replace by 2012 an existing heavily-used bus route from Mattapan to Ruggles Station with rapid transit bus service that will provide faster, more reliable service to Roxbury, Mattapan and Dorchester. The bus rapid transit project will first provide a direct Silver Line connection from Dudley Station to South Station in Boston this fall, including dedicated bus lanes on Essex Street and a new, state-of-the-art street-level terminal at South Station. Mayor Thomas Menino and Transportation Secretary James Aloisi joined the Governor for the announcement. Governor Deval Patrick today announced federal stimulus funds will improve Boston bus service along New England’s busiest bus corridor and in neighborhoods currently unserved by rapid transit.
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