[*BCM*] Upcoming LivableStreets Alliance StreeTALK

[dorothy fennell]

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**StreetTALK: "Using Transportation to Transform Communities: Learning from
the Anti Highway Movement of the 1960's"*
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Details:
*STREET TALK!
"Using Transportation to Transform Communities"
Thu. Sept. 25, 7 - 9 pm
by Ken Kruckemeyer and Ann Hershfang
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@ LivableStreets office space, 100 Sidney Street, Central Square, Cambridge
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* Learning from the anti-highway movement*: A grass roots movement swept
Boston in the 60's and led to, among other things, the orange line subway
and park known as the Southwest Corridor. Meet some of the individuals who
made this happen and hear their stories.

Event is free and open to the public, donation suggested, beer/sodas
provided compliments of Harpoon Brewery!
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In the years following World War II, America was becoming increasingly
highway development oriented. In the 60's and 70's a grassroots movement
prevented several major highway projects from destroying its neighborhoods,
and instead shifted funding to transit expansion, which we now take for
granted. This activism prevented the development of several major highway
projects which had the power to destroy Boston-area neighborhoods.

It is due to the efforts of steadfast neighborhood champions like Ken
Kruckemeyer and Ann Hershfang that the City of Boston and the State decided
against extensive highway development projects and instead shifted funding
to the expansion of public transportation; which we now take for granted.

Of the many outcomes of this moment, two visible successes are the:

(1) Prevented development of the "inner belt" which was a highway that would
have cut clear through Cambridge's Central Square and Cambridgeport
neighborhoods

(2) Tossing out what was to be the multi-lane "Southwest Expressway" that
would connect Boston to points south via the Roxbury and Jamaica Plain
neighborhoods in favor of the mulit-use transportation corridor and green
space we now know as the Southwest Corridor Park and MBTA Orange Line
subway.

Click here for a short WBUR piece highlighting
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Click here for more
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Click here for an interview with
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*More about Ken & Ann*

*Ken* is a private consultant specializing in the design of civil
infrastructure, focusing on integrated public transport systems, pedestrian
and bicycle facilities, and roadway and bridge design. He is also an adjunct
Research Associate at the Center for Transportation and Logistics and
Lecturer in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the
MIT. Ken served as Associate Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of
Public Works from 1983 to 1991. Mr. Kruckemeyer is an Architect with degrees
from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University.

*Ann* has extensive experience in all facets of the transportation business,
including serving on the Board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and 10
Years on the Massachusetts Turnpike Highway Board, as well as founding Walk
Boston, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to improving walking
conditions in cities and towns across Massachusetts. In essence, her entire
professional experience stemmed from her involvement in the Anti-Highway
Movement.
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This event is sponsored by LivableStreets Alliance*
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