Battle for Centre Street: People to walk Centre to support 'road diet,' while road-diet protesters hold a standout

We have already asked for and received hundreds of speed humps in Roxbury, which allow for a little faster travel (about 20 MPH max) compared to traditional speed bumps but have significantly slowed down traffic on side streets.

Our attention has already been focused inward to make our own neighborhoods safer. We don’t use politics to punish people.

and John woke up and choose violence. :-)

Since my aunt moved about 30 years ago, except for one visit to Roche Bros. I think you greatly overestimate interest in your neighborhood from people who live in other parts of the city. Perhaps it is just an attempt to delegitimize opposition. I do expect that friends and family of that poor woman who was killed by a car several months back will show up.

“Measures recommended by experts to prevent further deaths depicted as efforts to subvert political power.”

You’re kidding, right?

And, yes, all roads should be made safer for all who use those roads, from delivery trucks to pedestrians.

“Measures recommended by experts to prevent further deaths depicted as efforts to subvert political power.”

You’re kidding, right?

And, yes, all roads should be made safer for all who use those roads, from delivery trucks to pedestrians.

So you've imagined a large continent of people from outside West Roxbury who are pushing for the road diet and gotten yourself in a tizzy about them while you yourself live outside of West Roxbury and aren't affected one way or the other by it? It's a nice day, go outside instead of getting angry about things on the Internet, man.

I live just off of Centre Street, walk across it pretty much daily, and it needs to be fixed. It's a death trap. It was never intended to be a 4 car lane road. It was only that wide in the first place because there used to be a trolley running down the middle.

Asshole.

I recall you aren't too much a fan of that.

Also speaking of inconsistencies:

We know you are turning up the heat on West Roxbury for political reasons as much as safety reasons.

A few seconds later:

this is nothing but an attempt to politically dominate one part of the city which opposes your politics and nothing else.

So which is it?

Sounds like you're making up people to be angry at again, as we know safe street advocates can only walk or chew gum at the same time. And who would blame them, you gotta keep your head on a swivel with how people use the roads around here!

And you still keep running away from those abelist comments you made, I would respect you more if you just admitted it.

They do, but isn't Centre worse in terms of accidents between cars and cyclists or pedestrians? If so then it makes sense to address it first but absolutely those streets could use a redesign too.

Blue Hill ave is pretty much right in the middle of a major redesign with national funding...

Columbia rd absolutely needs a road diet, especially now that mass ave south is being modernized. Would be great to have safe access from JFK Umass to Mass Ave. That opens up safe access all the way into the Hancock building via the southwest corridor/ melnea cass.

Cant speak foor Seaver st, but if its like the rest of the city, yeah modernize it.

This Is Going To Be Great

Yes it is. Absolutely.

But I want Centre street to be bikeable. I want the option of biking over there to spend money on groceries, on a Y membership, on any number of restaurants that look tasty. But right now it's not worth the risk. I'll bike to a less convenient but safer destination. I don't want to "get back" at those evil West Roxbury people, I want to spend money at their businesses.

then to make up people to be mad about on the Internet. Couldn't be me!

You clearly haven't seen the discourse surrounding street safety improvements around Nubian Square, which has featured a somehow similar group of NIMBYs claiming to represent "the real neighborhood..." only this time, instead of saying that improved safety is a leftist plot, they claim it's racist gentrification.

The anti-street-safety crowd isn't exactly mapped neatly onto left/right lines, it's mostly people afraid of change who demand extra (endless) process to reassure them that they are being "consulted" and "heard."

I just want Centre Street to be a safe street to drive down, take the bus to, walk along, and ride my bike at least as safely as I can on Belgrade Avenue, which doesn’t seem like much to ask. I don’t really care who West Roxbury wants for mayor, or president.

You should support returning Centre Street to its original configuration.

For starters, no one is a "resident" of City Hall.

But I'd love to see your data set on motor vehicle collisions in Boston where a child was injured and the crash was at the fault of a member of city government.

You have no point and nothing valid to add to any conversation.

But yeah, the one time I've had road deer it was pretty tasty!

BPD checks her cell phone usage at the time of the "accident".