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Roxbury 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 in Roxbury.

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We're developing plans for slowing speeds and creating safer crossings around Ellis Elementary School in Roxbury. The City of Boston is working in partnership with:

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    Boston Safe Routes to Schools

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We are working with residents and schools in the Garrison Trotter neighborhood to develop a plan to make it safer and more comfortable for students to get to school by walking and taking the bus. In 2022 we added 93 speed humps throughout the neighborhood. We are currently working with MassDOT to improve six intersections with raised crosswalks, curb extensions, and pedestrian islands to create safer streets and crossings. 

The Roxbury Safe Routes to School Project Area includes streets bounded by:
  • south of Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
  • west of Warren Street and Elm Hill Avenue
  • north of Seaver Street, and 
  • east of Walnut Avenue

Project Area

MAP OF PROJECT AREA

Roxbury Safe Routes To School Map

This neighborhood includes several schools, parks, and community places, such as:
  • 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:

  1. Working with Ellis Elementary school to develop programming to encourage walking and biking to school
  2. Installing speed humps to slow speeds to 20 to 25 mph
  3. 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

Right-of-Way (ROW) Plans

Access to private property next to the sidewalk will be needed to construct some of these safety  improvements. The city will reach out to the property owners to request permission to access their property, following MassDOT procedures.
 

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 Updates

We'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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    Boston Safe Routes to Schools

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