This news from Pete Stidman, of the Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition

Hello Bike Lane supporters!

For those of you who signed the petition for a bike lane on Blue Hill Avenue, thank you for your support! But wait, there’s more to do before safe biking in Mattapan, Dorchester and Roxbury becomes a fact.

If you have the time, please show up at the next Public 28x Outreach meeting at the Dudley Branch Library at 65 Warren Street,
6 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 27, to voice your support for a bike lane. If enough of us ask for a bike lane, cycle track or shared bus/bike lane, it can and will be done. Safe neighborhoods can happen!

Only you can make Tuesday’s meeting about the 28x bus project a turning point. Step up to the microphone to tell the EOT to make cycling safer, or applaud others who do.

As we’ve said in previous emails and conversations, this particular effort is not about supporting or not supporting the 28x project. That controversial decision is up to each of us to make on our own.

We simply want to ensure that there is a bike lane on Blue Hill Avenue in the future no matter what happens, so that we, our children, and our children’s children can have a healthy and safe bike ride to school, to work, to the park, to the Blue Hills Reservation, or anywhere we want to go.

Please show up and say your piece!
(And whether or not you can make it to the meeting, please sign on to the petition in support of bike lanes.)

-Pete Stidman
Dorchester Environmental Health Coalition

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PS: Below is Secretary Aloisi’s official invitation to this same meeting.

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On Tuesday October 27th, we will be holding a Public Meeting at 6:00 PM at the Dudley Branch Library at 65 Warren Street to discuss the Route 28X Bus Enhancements Project. Spanish and Haitian Creole translation will be available at this meeting. We hope you can join us.

We have been refining the plan over the last month and would like to share the latest information with you, including such topics as:
- Status of the TIGER grant application
- Responses to frequently asked questions
- Additional transit analysis
- Construction jobs and hiring
- Construction mitigation planning
The meeting will begin with a presentation by my staff followed by an opportunity for discussion.

As you may know, we submitted the TIGER grant application in September. The submitted application materials can be found at www.mass.gov/eot/28x as can other information about the project.

Please contact the Office of Transportation Planning at 617.973.7210 or planning@eot.state.ma.us if you need any special accommodations for the meeting or if you have any questions.

Please forward this information to others.

Thank you for your interest in the Route 28X Bus Enhancements Project.