Ellis Safe Routes To School Project
Comprehensive plan for creating calmer, safer streets and crossings in partnership with residents and schools in the Garrison Trotter neighborhood.
Project Phase
Project Information
We're making street safety improvements to slow speeds and create safer crossings around the Ellis Elementary School in Roxbury. The City of Boston is working in partnership with:
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About
We are working with residents and schools in the Garrison Trotter neighborhood to make it safer and more comfortable for students to walk to school. In 2022 we added 93 speed humps throughout the neighborhood. In June 2026, MassDOT will start construction on a project to improve six intersections with raised crosswalks, curb extensions, and pedestrian islands to create safer streets and crossings.
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South of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
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West of Warren Street and Elm Hill Avenue
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North of Seaver Street, and
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East of Walnut Avenue
MassDOT Project - Safer Crossing Locations
- Ellis Elementary School
- Higginson Lewis K-8 School
- Crispus Attucks Children's Center
- Boston Latin Academy
- Trotter K-8 School
- Bridge Boston Charter School
- Horatio Harris Park
- Crawford Street Playground
- Laviscount Park
- Trotter School Playground
- Roxbury YMCA
The goal of the Roxbury Safe Routes to School project is to create safer, calmer streets and crossings to make it safer and more comfortable for students to walk to school. The project focuses on:
- Working with the Ellis Elementary and other schools in the neighborhood to encourage walking and biking to school
- Installing speed humps to slow speeds to 20 to 25 mph (completed in 2022)
- In 2026 and 2027, making crossings safer at:
- Harold Street, Crawford Street, and Abbotsford Street
- Walnut Avenue where it meets Crawford Street and Holworthy Street
- Walnut Avenue at Cobden Street
- Walnut Avenue at Westminster Avenue
- Walnut Avenue at Ruthven Street
- Humboldt Avenue at Munroe Street
Boston Safe Routes to Schools
Ellis Elementary Safe Routes to School program announcement
In 2019, Ellis Elementary was selected for MassDOT's Massachusetts Safe Routes to School Infrastructure Project funding program.
MassDOT Safe Routes to School Program
The program works to increase safe biking and walking among elementary and middle school students.
Meeting Presentations and Past Updates
Past UpdatesWe're looking for an artist and/or cultural worker to engage and collaborate with community members to imagine and design new pedestrian-friendly spaces. The location of the project is at the intersection of:
- Harold Street
- Abbotsford Street, and
- Crawford Street, in the Garrison Trotter neighborhood of Roxbury.
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