Winter Hill in Motion Community Meeting

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The City hosted a community meeting about their Winter Hill in Motion project. They are calling it a "tactical urbanism" project. You can see the slides from the presentation here.

The quick takeaways were something like this:

• This is not a large scale street improvement project, although it will be a significant change.
• They will not be repaving the street or working on sidewalks. Instead the bulk of the work will be with paint, plastic bollards, and signal timing.
• The scope of the project is Broadway between Magoun Sq and McGrath Highway (in both directions). The main change will be painting Broadway to designate two lanes in each direction--one for cars (closest to the median) and one restricted to just buses and bikes. 
• In addition to/in support of the lane designations there will be several other markings/changes including turning lanes, crosswalks, areas where the bike lane is protected from traffic
• For the most part the parking will stay the same but there will be some spots removed and some added, with a net loss of parking.
• In addition to the City's work, the MBTA will also be removing some bus stops and moving some others so as to space out the stops a little more evenly
• For many more details, see the power point presentation here.
• Sign up for the emails here. 
• And the project page is here: www.somervillema.gov/winterhillmotion
• Local news coverage here.