THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14, 2024
SOUTH BOSTON ONLINE
VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 74
Making History
Bluebikes Open House by Rick Winterson
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presentation entitled “Bluebikes Open House” took place in the Tynan Community Center. It was presented by Kim Foltz, the Senior Bike Share & Active Transportation Planner in the City of Boston’s so-called “Streets Cabinet”, along with her crew of three assistants. More information about the Streets Cabinet can be obtained on the Boston.gov internet. The objectives of the Bluebike Open House were three in number: 1.- Present information on the need to expand; 2.- List potential sites for new Bluebike rental stations; 3.- Ask for opinions on the best places in South Boston for these stations to be installed. The Open House presented diagrams of 28 possible new
Bluebike stations in South Boston. Fourteen locations were in the residential/small business area of South Boston; the other 14 were in the Seaport District. Maps of each location and pictures of how each one of them might look were laid out for everyone to inspect. The exhibit was carefully prepared. In total, there was a lot of information to digest. And the overall aim of the Open House was to choose the best locations out of the 28 proposed, and then go ahead with continued Bluebike station planning and installations. Some of those who attended were opposed to any City of Boston Bluebike stations on South Boston’s streets. That opposition especially applied to anything (including Bluebike stations) that reduced auto parking spaces. Unfortunately, Continued on Page 2
by Rick Winterson
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ave the Harbor/Save the Bay SH/SB has been with us for the last 38 years (since 1986); it will celebrate its Fortieth Anniversary in 2026 – less than two years from now, during the nation’s 250th year to be exact. With the cooperation of the Commonwealth’s pertinent coastal agencies, as well as the
support of countless friends and supporters, SH/SB has succeeded remarkably in its prime task. That task has been the clean-up, beautification, and subsequent enjoyment of Greater Boston’s many beaches stretching from Nantasket through Boston to Nahant.
You might recall the poor condition of our waterfront and shorelines late in the 1900s. Some Continued on Page 4
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