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“In 2018, with the sale of the Winthrop Square Garage, then-Mayor Martin Walsh committed $28 million to revitalize Franklin Park — a promise that is now coming to fruition. However, with proposed plans including closing one of the park’s major through roads to automotive traffic, neighbors are expressing concerns over increased congestion and the sacrifice of invaluable community assets within the park’s outer regions.”

“The team designing the park’s revitalization plan, which includes members from the Cambridge-based landscape architecture firm Reed Hilderbrand, Mass Design Group and Agency Landscape + Planning, is recommending that Circuit Drive, which bisects the park, be closed to auto traffic. They’re proposing a pedestrian and bicycle promenade that would circle the park’s central golf course. Under this scenario, traffic would enter the park near the entrance to the zoo opposite Columbia Road and exit at Humboldt Avenue and Elm Hill Avenue….”

https://www.baystatebanner.com/2022/06/23/plan-would-divert-franklin-park-traffic-through-roxbury/
 
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