Now, Washington Square Brookline. Originally, near Albany, NY.
What do you like about volunteering with LivableStreets?
I like learning about everyone’s advocacy efforts. Conversations with other volunteers and members are the best. It’s also fun to chat with people on the street and help bring their voices into the public process through LivableStreets’ Street Ambassador program.
What is your favorite LivableStreets advocacy project?
My favorite advocacy project is the contra-flow bicycle lane project in my neighborhood in Brookline. A street with a contra-flow lane has one-way car traffic and two-way bike traffic. Contra-flow lanes provide more convenient connections for people biking where other alternative routes are less convenient.
Contra-flow bicycle lanes were proposed more than five years ago by the Brookline Bicycle Advisory Committee. When they came up for funding at the May 2012 Town Meeting, there was some resistance. A small group of elected Town Meeting Members
proposed a by-law prohibiting the lanes. LivableStreets members
attended and presented at a number of public meetings and
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| New contra-flow bicycle lane on Essex St in Brookline that Mike helped make happen. |
helped inform residents and Town Meeting Members on the benefits of contra-flow bicycle lanes.
In the end, hundreds of residents and elected officials learned about the effectiveness and design of contra-flow bicycles lanes. The by-law did not pass at Town Meeting and the lanes were approved for funding last year and installed over the past couple of months on Essex, Ivy, Park and Dudley Streets.
What would your bumper sticker say?
My other car is a Hubway.
> Read more Mike’s efforts with the contra-flow bicycle lanes and his full spotlight here.
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