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Roslindale Square Transportation Action Plan

Building on visioning from Squares + Streets, we're advancing mobility ideas to improve safety, connectivity, and placemaking in Roslindale Square. We're focusing on supporting small businesses, improving the public realm, and making it easier and safer to walk, bike, and take transit in the square.

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The City of Boston's Transportation Department (BTD) will lead this transportation action plan to get into the details on concepts emerging from Squares + Streets. Over the next year, we will work with the community to build on transportation ideas from the community to:

  • Maintain and uplift the vibrancy that makes Roslindale Square a great place
  • Increase the comfort, safety, attractiveness, and accessibility of walking, biking, taking transit, and lingering in Roslindale Square
  • Advance proposals in deep collaborative partnership with local residents, community leaders, stakeholders, and businesses

Beginning in early 2025, we'll begin reaching out to the community for feedback as we start gathering existing conditions data. We'll use this feedback to create potential options for the way the square could be designed to better serve all its uses and users.

project goals

project goals
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UPLIFT THE VIBRANCY OF ROSLINDALE SQUARE

Roslindale Square is home to the first Main Streets district in Boston. It's one of the most vibrant commercial squares in the City. This project will use transportation planning to support placemaking and community development.

MBTA Roslindale Bus Lane
MAKE IT EASIER TO WALK, BIKE, AND TAKE TRANSIT

This project will increase safety for all users, first and foremost. We'll work with you to identify opportunities to make it easier and more comfortable to walk, bike, and take transit.

Roslindale Shop Local Wall Mural
CLOSELY COLLABORATE WITH RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES

We will ensure that community input is incorporated at every stage of the project. We'll only be successful if we work together to develop visions to improve and invest in the transportation networks and public realm of Roslindale Square.

TIMELINE

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Squares + Streets, a initiative led by the Planning Department, has evaluated some transportation ideas for Roslindale Square. The Boston Transportation Department is responsible for designing and building City streets. Through this project, we'll evaluate and develop these mobility visions for Roslindale Square. This will include:

  1. Hire a consultant: We issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) in Summer 2024. We'll aim to have a consultant onboard to help us with planning, design, engineering, and engagement by the end of 2024.
  2. Initial community engagement: We'll begin reaching out to the community for feedback in early 2025. We'll ask about our project design principles. We'll ask you about how you use Roslindale Square, how often, what the major concerns are, and what your vision for it would be.
  3. Street redesign vision: Throughout 2025, we'll provide many ways to get involved with the design. We'll ask for your help in prioritizing strategies and steering our work. 
  4. Moving forward: Our project will take street designs to an early engineering stage. At this point, we currently do not have funding available for implementation or construction.

GET INVOLVED

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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. 

PROJECT MATERIALS

Project Materials
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September 2024 iterations of a project poster, flier in English, and in Spanish are here.

Thanks so much to everyone who joined and contributed. Find a brief summary of what we discussed and photos from the walk here.

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