Town Works to Make Streets Safer for All

 September/October 2024, Traffic  Comments Off on Town Works to Make Streets Safer for All
Aug 232024
 
Town Works to Make Streets Safer for All

By Sue Bass If you’ve noticed more speed bumps on Belmont’s streets, it’s not your imagination. They are a small clue to a new direction the town hopes to take: to slow traffic and make our roads safer for pedestrians and bicyclists. Two major projects are on the horizon, if construction money can be found: signalization and pedestrian amenities at Huron Avenue and Grove Street, and two roundabouts at Concord Avenue and Mill and Winter Streets. The Winter Street roundabout will need some political magic in addition to money. Meanwhile, two quicker projects are about to get underway. A $432,000 [READ MORE]

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20 Amazing Years of the Belmont Citizens Forum

 Bicycles and bike paths, Bike Paths, Environment, Historic Preservation, History, January 2020, Newsletter, Sewers, Water Quality  Comments Off on 20 Amazing Years of the Belmont Citizens Forum
Jan 062020
 
20 Amazing Years of the Belmont Citizens Forum

  By Jim Graves As a founding board member of the Belmont Citizens Forum (BCF), who has been inactive in recent years, I am honored to share these thoughts on why the BCF has been so valuable and to applaud the individuals and supporters who have sustained the BCF for 20 years. Prior to starting the BCF, the founders worked to first improve, then oppose, and nearly defeat the development and zoning changes proposed for 238 acres of open space owned by Partners Healthcare and its subsidiary, McLean Hospital. Legal challenges by the BCF and supporters slowed implementation, and notably, [READ MORE]

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