Transportation for Massachusetts
(T4MA) is dedicated to creating just and equitable transportation so that every community can flourish.
Transportation for Massachusetts (T4MA), established in 2010, is a statewide coalition focused on improving Massachusetts’ transportation systems. T4MA is committed to addressing the decades of inequitable transportation policies adversely impacting low-income, working class, Black, indigenous and communities of color.
T4MA works towards a Commonwealth with transportation systems that connect people with their choice of housing, economic opportunities, healthcare, and accessible and reliable public transportation that benefits residents in all 351 cities and towns in Massachusetts. Our coalition advocates at the federal, state, and local levels for transportation policies that are just, safe, reliable, accessible, equitable and affordable.
The last weeks have been difficult for our community.
Louisa Gag’s death confronts us all with policy failures that continue to make our streets unsafe. Over the last 18 months, we’ve called the City of Boston to “unpause” transportation projects, specifically those that improve safety and enhance the way all of us move around. We call on the City for a swift policy reversal accompanied with decisive action to recommit to road safety and the prioritization of people in transportation planning.
We can lead the change we want to see. Here are the things we need right now:
This is needed both at a municipal and state agency level.
People don’t know or care who owns the streets in a community, they just need to get where they are going safely.
- Unpause safety projects and replace removed flexposts citywide.
- Restart the “Speed Hump” program.
- Advance the infrastructure and encouragement projects that Louisa directly worked on.
- Bring in a 3rd party to support crash investigations and propose a structure for holistic, “safe systems” crash response.
- Encourage the Boston City Council to keep City Hall accountable, and show up to testify at every hearing:
- Contact the city council: city.council@boston.gov
- Contact the mayor: mayor@boston.gov
- This crash, like so many others, involved a driver of a semi-truck.
- We need to expand the mandates for safety features like convex mirrors, backup cameras, and side-guards – for municipalities as well as at the state level. We know these save lives.
- These changes would materially improve the safety of everyone on our roads, and help drivers by limiting blind spots and reducing impact when crashes occur.
- Contact your local + state officials to demand changes for
safer vehicles. Cities can lead by example with their own fleet.
- Contact your local + state officials to demand changes for
S.2344 and H.3754: An Act Relative to Traffic Regulation
Using Road Safety Cameras
- These bills will allow cities and towns to install safety cameras.
- When enacted elsewhere, automated enforcement has reduced speeding and serious crashes.
- This bill includes strong privacy protections, unlike unregulated automated license plate readers.
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Our goal is to eliminate disparities and improve outcomes for everyone, particularly those that have been historically, disproportionately impacted by transportation injustice, are transit dependent, and/or are underserved by our transportation systems.
Everyone deserves safe, reliable, accessible, equitable and affordable transportation. Join us in advancing transportation justice for all so that every community can flourish.
