[Carfreeliving] LivableStreets in the Boston Globe!

[Dave Snyder]

Check out this coverage of a similar organization in Boston:


>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:02:38 -0500
>From: Jeff Rosenblum <rosenblum.jeff at gmail.com>
>Subject: Our new organization LivableStreets in the Boston Globe!
>
>http://tinyurl.com/e8udn
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>BOSTON GLOBE
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>SOMERVILLE
>Shifting gears, group merges transit message
>By Will Kilburn, Globe Correspondent  |  March 19, 2006
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>Usually, when advocates for non-car-based transportation try to get
>something done -- better bike paths, say, or improved mass transit --
>they go it alone. But now, a new advocacy group called the
>LivableStreets Alliance is pledging to tie all of those interests together.
>
>''We feel strongly that one of the reasons that advocacy hasn't been as
>successful as it could be in Boston is that people have been very
>'siloed' in their modes, and it's hard to get traction," said Jeffrey
>Rosenblum, executive director and cofounder of the alliance. ''Whereas
>when we power in with the bike advocates, the pedestrian advocates,
>[and] the advocates for transit, that's going to require them to take
>notice."
>
>This month at the Sherman Cafe in Somerville, Alliance board member Phil
>Goff, formerly a planner for the city of Portland, Ore., presented a
>slide show of changes made to the transportation grid there, along with
>suggestions for applying Portland's solutions to Boston, Cambridge, and
>Somerville.
>
>Afterward, board member Mark Chase, one of the founders of Zipcar, said
>he believes that the group's approach -- idealism balanced by
>professional expertise -- will set it apart from others with a more
>radical, less practical approach.
>
>''It's not anti-car; it's really looking at the balance of the system.
>The power that we have in our group is a lot of professional
>transportation planner-thinker people who are not just reactionary," he
>said. ''We all like alternative or sustainable transportation, but
>people drive and use cars, and we're really looking for a balanced system."
>
>The group is planning to launch a membership drive in May; for
>information, go to www.livablestreets.info .
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