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Somerville Approves Neighborways Improvements
Written by Boston Biker on Aug 05An interesting proposal for improving the streets of Somerville. From the email.
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Dear Somerville Cyclists,
Somerville has approved a Neighborways program. Neighborways use paint and planters to create a hybrid playground/bike/ walk street. While City approved, funding and implementation is completely up to we-the-people. We hope to execute a substantial pilot in the next three weeks (before Labor Day). Our first big event is an amazing street painting this Saturday. We could really use some help this weekend and beyond:
Painters! If you’ve done any house painting and know how wield a brush we could use you. If you have experience painting murals, we will worship the ground you walk on (maybe can drum up a stipend for a muralist if you know one). Our first mural will hopefully be painted this Saturday (weather permitting).
Neighborhorways porch-presenters. Our model is to get everyone on our blocks involved. Lots of beers on porches. I need someone to hang with neighbors for an hour or so and talk up the benefits of Neighborways.
Midnight painting crew– have you ever seen people painting the bike lanes in the middle of the night? We’ll be doing that! If you don’t mind being up late, please join us for some serious tactical urbanism.
As I mentioned this coming Saturday we’ll hopefully be painting a mural. There’s a myriad of small things that would help out if your free– organizing music, buying food (we’ll provide cash for that), helping keep small kids out of the paint and setting up tables for workers, taking photographs and video footage of the event.
If you’re interested in helping, please let me know what interests you the most.
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