Petition: Make Memorial Drive Safe, Green, and Accessible
As many of you have heard, MIT Professor Thomas Rose sadly passed away from injuries sustained while biking at Massachusetts Avenue and Memorial Drive. I wanted to share this petition, which proposes changes to make Memorial Drive safer. According to the petition:
“Professor Rose is the fifth person killed while walking or biking on Memorial Drive since 2014, and more than 400 people have been injured. Memorial Drive’s design encourages dangerous speeding and conflicts at intersections, leaving people walking and biking exposed to serious harm.
Memorial Drive should be one of Cambridge’s greatest public spaces, not a dangerous high-speed commuter road. Recent data shows that many drivers travel 15 to 25 mph over the speed limit.”
Please consider signing and sharing:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc3o8YHD-QiC8KDR7D6O_efi0PMEd59ogvcUosraM4UCCiquQ/viewform
Please Note that I am not affiliated with Cambridge Bike Safety or personally acquainted with Professor Rose. I am simply sharing this here because I believe MIT students may want to read the petition (it’s short) and sign it if they agree.