Jamaica Plain Centre / South Transportation Action Plan
We're advancing efforts to improve safety, connectivity, and placemaking on Centre and South streets in Jamaica Plain. We're focusing on the stretch between Hyde Square and Forest Hills Station.
The City of Boston's Transportation Department (BTD) is leading this transportation action plan. Over the next year, we will work with the community to identify opportunities to:
- Improve safety for all who walk, bike, take transit, and drive on Centre and South streets
- Intentionally balance the needs of all uses and users, mostly using the existing width of the street between curbs
- Enhance the public realm, providing opportunities to comfortably and safely visit and linger in the area
During Summer 2024, we're hard at work issuing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a consultant to help us with planning, design, and engagement. Beginning in the Fall, we'll begin reaching out to the community for feedback. We'll use this feedback to create potential options for the way the streets could be designed to better serve all its uses and users.
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Transportation
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1 City Hall Square
Room 721Boston, MA 02201-2026
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PROJECT GOALS
Ensure safe travel every time
In 2015, Boston committed to Vision Zero, aiming to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries on City Streets. Centre Street is on the City's "High Crash Network" for people biking. This project will increase safety for all users, first and foremost.
Balance the needs of all users
We ask a lot of Centre and South streets. For example, riders of the 39 bus, a key bus route with the fourth most riders in the MBTA system, experience frequent delays due to traffic congestion. This project will use planning, design, and engineering to balance the needs of all who rely on the streets.
Support the community through place-centered design
Centre and South Streets form the beating heart of one of the most vibrant commercial districts in the City. This project will use transportation planning to support placemaking and community development.
TIMELINE
We know we've worked with the community on this street before. The 2011 Centre and South Streets Jamaica Plain Streetscape and Transportation Action Plan was a comprehensive look at the corridor. Now, we're ready to update our past efforts.
- Hire a consultant: The City is working hard to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP). By the end of Summer 2024, we'll have a consultant onboard to help us with planning, design, and engagement.
- Initial community engagement: We'll begin reaching out to the community for feedback in Fall 2024. We'll ask about our project design principles. We'll ask you about how you use Centre and South Streets. We'll make sure we haven't missed anything in our understanding of existing conditions.
- Street redesign vision: Our team will provide many ways to get involved in this process to redesign Centre and South streets. We expect many different designs may be evaluated, and we'll ask for your help in balancing tradeoffs in design. The process of developing a vision and design concept will begin in Winter 2024/25 and continue through Spring 2025.
GET INVOLVED
We're interested in hearing from you! As soon as we have more information on all the different ways you can get involved, we'll update this section. For now, you can provide your email using this form, and we'll share information about public meetings and other project-specific details as we have them.
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Still have questions? Contact:
Transportation
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1 City Hall Square
Room 721Boston, MA 02201-2026
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STAY CONNECTED
We will be sharing information about public meetings and other project-specific details: Join our mailing list here.
