Every year I find myself drawn to check out some stores on “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving, just to see what’s going on and soak up the scene. I rarely buy much, if anything, although usually pick up a couple of good deals. Today after picking up free-after-rebate software at Office Depot in Shoppers [...]
Archive for November, 2007
Crossing Route 9. The Friday after Thanksgiving. On foot.
November 23, 2007Downtown options
November 15, 2007“The steering committee of the Downtown Rail Crossing Task Force crafted three approaches to the future of downtown they say will help them decide which solution is best to fix the traffic tie-ups in the area of routes 126 and 135. The options focus on making downtown a more desirable place to live, a more [...]
Framingham forums on Open Space & Recreation Plan
November 15, 2007From William Hanson, chair of the Framingham Bicycle & Pedestrian Advisory Committee:
Four public forums are coming up to encourage public participation in the preparation of the next edition of the
Framingham Open Space and Recreation Plan. The future of rail trail development in Framingham is one aspect of this plan. Those with an interest in trails [...]
See home through a tourist’s eyes
November 11, 2007While vacationing at home last week, I took a Photo Walk tour of Beacon Hill. It was a fun way to see a local place from a traveler’s perspective, finding out new things about oft-visited places and looking at familiar scenes with a new eye. (Last fall, I took a a guided walking tour of [...]
Speen Street’s crosswalk to nowhere: too bad we need to walk a hundred feet
November 5, 2007My company has a cluster of buildings near the intersection of Speen Street and Old Connecticut Path, and people need to do a fair amount of walking between those buildings — for meetings, and for lunch (not all the buildings have cafeterias). Unfortunately, there’s not a sidewalk for the full stretch.
It’s annoying and feels a [...]
Framingham Bicycle & Pedestrian Committee Meets Tuesday 11/13
November 4, 2007From Chair William Hanson:
Framingham Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee
Conference Room 1
Memorial Building
150 Concord Street
Tuesday November 13, 2007 at 7:30 PM
Agenda
7:30 PM
-> Vote on meeting minutes
-> Review recent correspondence and media articles
-> Public comment
7:50 PM
-> Update on recent meetings: Downtown Rail Crossing, Open
Space and Recreation Plan, Cochituate Rail Trail,
Bruce Freeman Trail
8:15 PM
-> [...]
Mayors highlight benefits of walkable cities
November 3, 2007“Cities that are ‘walkable,’ workable and livable add up to the ’s’ word: sustainable. Cities that are centered on people and public transit, not cars, and built to higher standards of energy efficiency will save money, hum with new development and create jobs to suit a greener way of life.”
–New York Times coverage of the [...]
