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From YouTube: Commonwealth Ave. Phase 2A Groundbreaking
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Mayor Walsh is joined by Governor Baker as well as other community leaders to offer remarks on the Commonwealth Ave. Phase 2A Groundbreaking at Pocket Park in Allston.
Commonwealth Ave. Phase 2A is a Federally and State funded project that focuses on commuter safety and transportation efficiency by adhering to the mandates set forth by the Complete Streets and Vision Zero initiatives.
A
A
Good
afternoon
everybody,
that's
right,
that's
how
we
stay
warm.
You
know
my
name
is
Tom
chillin
I'm,
highway,
administrator
and
I
have
the
honor
of
being
the
MC.
Today
you
know
the
last
time
I
joined
governor
Baker.
He
mayor
Walsh,
on
comm
ave.
We
get
it's
very,
very
similar
weather.
We
gather
to
remember
our
past
and
to
commemorate
the
heroic
actions
that
followed
the
tragic
events
of
the
2013
Boston
Marathon
and
to
always
keep
alive
the
sense
of
community
to
follow.
A
But
today
we
had
to
look
to
our
future
and
to
move
one
of
Boston's
major
arterials
into
the
21st
century.
This
project
is
a
direct
result
of
many
great
partnerships
from
federal
state
and
local
government
support
and
assistance
from
a
great
institution
of
higher
education
to
a
very
engaged
advocacy
group,
neighboring
municipalities
and
the
governor.
Who
knows
how
to
move
us
all
forward
by
making
connections.
A
That's
why
it's
fitting
that
he
is
here
today
to
speak
on
a
project
that
connects
not
just
many
forms
of
transportation,
but
also
communities,
institutions
in
neighborhoods
and
moves
us
all
forward.
It
gives
me
great
pleasure
to
introduce
to
you
the
72nd
governor
of
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts.
Please
welcome
Charlie
Baker.
C
B
Think
this
project,
which
is,
as
Tom
said,
is
a
real
joint
effort
between
the
local
community,
a
great
university,
the
city
of
Boston,
the
federal
government,
the
Commonwealth
of
Massachusetts,
to
take
what
fundamentally
I
think
is
a
reimagining
of
how
this
on
a
work
and
put
them
all
together
as
a
collaborative
effort
and
from
our
point
of
view,
this
is
the
sort
of
thing
that
we
like
to
be
part
of.
We
appreciate
opportunities
to
work
closely
with
our
colleagues
and
local
government
and
not
just
these
kinds
of
projects,
but
other
projects
with
similar.
B
B
They
had
developed
a
plan
to
deal
with
this
every
several
years
ago
and,
as
we
went
forward
with
our
Complete
Streets
program
at
the
state
level,
made
a
decision,
and
not
just
does
that
plan
off
the
best
I
plan
off
and
make
it
better
than
to
work
closely
with
folks
were
local
community
and
with
the
university
to
turn
it
into
something
that
I
think
it
meant
of
us.
We're
all
going
to
be
enormously
pleased
and
pronto
thanks
again
for
the
chance
to
be
here
and
ignore
the
gantry.
A
Talk
myself
right,
I
would
jump,
so
is
the
governor
alluded
to
you
know.
I
do
want
to
acknowledge
the
presence
of
our
most
immediate
federal
partner
in
this
project
would
not
be
possible
without
the
eighty
percent
funding
that
we
get
from
federal
federal
highway.
So
I
want
to
welcome
the
divisional
administrator
from
federal,
highway
Jeff
McEwen.
It
was
here
please
a
nice
round
of
applause
for
Jeff
and.
A
Also
I
know
who's,
always
an
enormous
help
on
all
infrastructure
projects.
In
his
district
with
Congress
on
Mike,
Capuano
I
know
John
line
a
check
for
the
congressman's
office
here,
John
thanks
for
joining
us,
so
you
know
sometimes
multimodal
ism
is
difficult
to
accomplish
it's
actually
even
difficult
to
say,
especially
in
a
city
with
four
hundred
and
sixteen
year
old
infrastructure.
So,
although
it's
easy
sometimes
to
push
away
from
the
table,
our
next
speaker
in
his
team
lean
forward
and
worked
hard
to
make
a
difference
and
have
the
tough
conversations
to
see
this
project
through.
D
Thank
you,
Tom
and
I
want
to
thank
you,
the
governor,
Thank
You,
governor
Baker,
from
being
it
took
what
you've
done,
Stephanie
and
all
the
folks
at
mascot.
This
truly
is
a
collaboration
I
want
to.
Thank
you
all
very,
very
much.
I
know
in
these
days
of
trying
to
answer
questions
everything
else.
We
are
moving
things
forward,
as
well
as
a
team,
so
I
want
to
thank
you
for
that.
I
also
want
to
thank
president
brown,
Galen,
Luke
and
all
the
everyone
else
that
was
part
of
how
getting
to
this
point
today.
D
Christopher
whiteville
was
a
23
year
old,
boss,
University
graduate
student
with
it
with
a
future
in
photojournalism
in
2001-2012.
Excuse
me,
he
lost
his
life
at
the
intersection
of
st.
palm
ave
in
st.
Paul
Chris's
brother
Dustin
is
with
us
today.
Unless
last
winter,
Dustin
told
me
the
story
about
talking
to
improve
our
streets.
D
D
And
you
know
it's
important
for
us
that
that
we
we
continue
to
work
together,
and
this
isn't
city,
vs,
state,
federal
government.
This
is
all
of
us
working
together,
we're
intertwines
here
and
to
add
foster
university
in
the
institutions,
and
businesses
into
this
conversation
is
so
important.
So
I
want
to
again
want
to
thank
all
of
you
for
being
here
today.
D
I
also
want
to
give
a
special
thank
you
to
state
representative
Kevin
Honan,
who
has
been
working
for
years
at
the
State
House
and
transportation
corridors,
and
in
this
neighborhood
I
want
to
uncle
nah
Yolo
Zapata
with
me
in
the
city
to
make
sure
that
we
have.
We
have
so
again
to
all
of
you
here.
Thank
you
so
much
for
being
here
today.
This
is
a
very
good
announcement.
This
is
a
very
good
plan,
and
this
is
something
that
neither
myself
or
the
governor
are
going
to
say.
A
You
Mara
in
the
mayor
acknowledge
his
team,
especially
led
by
the
efforts
of
Commissioner
Juna
fee
and
dagger,
the
Boston
Transportation
Department,
but
you
know
every
project
has
that
certain
quantum
back?
You
know
the
one
person
that
won't
let
it
go
they're
in
your
office
there
on
the
phone
they're
fighting
for
funding,
and
I
do
want
to
give
a
special
shout-out
acknowledgement
for
my
friend
Jim
Gillooly.
You
would
not
let
this
go.
A
Argue
with
the
vision
to
see
the
full
value
of
innovative
projects
like
this
one,
even
though
she
started
her
tenure
under
a
hundred
feet
of
snow,
her
leadership
has
improved
a
very
transportation
systems.
It
made
us
all
look
at
how
we
address
transportation
he'll.
Let
my
favorite
favorite
phrase
of
the
secretary
shares
liberally.
His
transportation
is
less
about
what
it
is:
roads,
bridges,
tunnels,
sidewalks
buses
and
trains
and
more
about
what
it
does:
connect
people
to
opportunities,
jobs,
family
friends,
health
care,
and
she
never
lets
us
forget
that
this
project
is
evidence
of
that.
E
It
is
a
perfect
example
of
what
happens
when
government
and
the
community
and
institutions
and
people
actually
roll
up
their
sleeves
and
say
if
we
all
think
together,
we
will
come
out
with
a
better
outcome
that
any
of
us
could
come
up
with
separately.
So
it's
a
very
exciting
day
for
the
project.
Time
rightly
called
out.
Jim
Belushi,
I'm
going
to
call
out.
E
Little
clicker
I've
got
a
hundred
thousand
cars
and
people
would
go
by
this
spot
in
a
busy
day.
This
is
a
really
busy
street
and
the
interesting
thing
is,
if
you
were
to
do
that,
you
would
find
that
almost
exactly
a
third
of
them
we're
driving
in
cars,
a
third
of
them
we're
getting
off
the
tee
buses
in
the
green
line
and
a
third
of
them
were
walking
or
driving
or
riding
on
bicycles.
So
this
is
really
the
perfect
project
that
embodies
the
concept
of
a
complete
street.
E
We
say
the
complete
streets
are
for
all
users,
but
sometimes
we
forget
that
even
on
our
busiest
streets,
all
users
does
not
just
mean
the
people
in
cars.
This
project
will
remind
us
of
that.
It
will
make
this
street
a
lot
safer
and
it
will
also,
I
think,
serve
not
just
locally
and
throughout
the
Commonwealth,
but
is
a
national
model
of
the
right
way
to
do
a
street.
So
thank
you
all
for
coming
and
look
forward
to
watching
the
project
as
it
as
is
destructed
over
the
next
two
and
a
half
years.
A
A
The
representatives
help
sponsor
line
with
his
colleagues
at
the
State
House
a
bill
that
would
allow
the
City
of
Boston
to
actually
take
some
land
of
Brookline.
So
no
mayor,
you
can't
tax
that
and
you
do
have
to
get
the
back,
but
you're
working
with
Senator
will
Brownsberger
again
represented
opponent,
council
co
mo
that
combined
effort.
One
hundred
percent
and
completely
across
the
bullets
will
cheerfully
elected
leadership
of
the
scene
of
the
play.
A
No
I
mentioned
partnerships
earlier.
If
Boston
University
was
there
from
day
one,
not
only
did
they
contribute
with
innovative
thinking,
but
also
put
their
money
where
their
mouth
once
they
know
better
than
most,
as
the
man
who
referred
to
earlier
that
this
project
would
enhance
safety
for
all
users
funding.
The
design
was
a
junction
to
jumpstart
to
this
and
took
a
real
cent.
They
took
a
real
sense
of
civic
responsibility
and
that
sense
starts
at
the
top.
Please
welcome
the
president,
Boston
University
Robert
Brown.
F
C
Together,
for
a
reason
is
because
we're
cold
and
wet
and
I'll
try
not
to
take
much
more
of
your
time,
but
we
always
talk
about
projects
like
this.
Is
all
the
pieces
fall
into
place.
I
hope
you
have
a
sense
from
the
discussion
this
afternoon
that
these
pieces
don't
simply
fall
into
place.
It
takes
an
active
support
from
all
forms
of
government
and
the
institutions
to
make
a
project
like
this
come
together,
and
it
will
have
a
very
significant
difference
on
this
stretch
of
commonwealth
avenue.
C
I've
been
president
long
enough
at
Boston
University
to
have
lived
through
the
planning
and
the
implementation
of
a
similar
project
on
the
stretch.
It
was
called
cap,
one
between
ten,
more
square
in
the
bu
bridge,
and
this
last
two
weekends
ago
we've
had
alumni
back
on
campus
3,500
alumni
events,
6,000
people
attending
events,
and
they
remarked
over
and
over
again
about
what
a
transformation
it
meant
through
our
campus
into
the
community.
C
What
happened
between
Kenmore
Square
to
be
encouraged,
the
streetscape
for
pedestrians
to
buy
plays
for
cyclists
the
reduced
traffic
as
we
brought
the
lanes
down
the
plantings
all
of
those
things
and
what
I
was
able
to
say
to
them
is
just
stay
tuned.
If
you
lived
through
the
period
of
orange
barrels,
which
will
last
several
years,
we
will
have
the
same
kind
of
street
skate
on
this
stretch
of
coming
Avenue
and
will
transform
it
in
exactly
the
same
way.
C
C
To
stay
through
one
of
these
projects,
they
take
a
long
time
to
bring
everyone
together
and
Michael
is
one
of
the
constant
pieces
of
that
happening.
You
know
when
you
look
at
Boston
University
and
you
think
about
why
we
invest
we're
a
university
that
thrives
only
when
the
city
around
us
and
if
you
look
at
this
West
stretch
of
our
campus,
this
is
a
major
part
of
our
campus.
We
have
as
a
university
in
over
the
next
several
years
in
the
deflected
pass.
C
We
will
invest
at
about
a
billion
dollars
in
new
facilities
on
this
part
of
our
campus.
It's
incredibly
important
to
us
in
this
project
will
mean
the
tremendous
amount
to
our
students
and
faculty
and
staff,
as
they
communicate
up
and
down.
Commonwealth,
Avenue
and
I
want
to
thank
again
everyone.
That's
here,
that's
made
this
project
possible
and
thank
you
for
all
of
our
community.
Thank
you.
C
F
C
F
D
C
B
F
Me
too,
we've
been
at
this
for
a
long
time
and
I'd
like
to
start
by
thanking
everyone
involved
this
project.
So
it's
going
to
be
a
while
City
Boston,
the
Boston
Transportation
Department,
of
course,
for
their
outreach
and
endless
design
revisions.
Mayor
Marty
Walsh,
for
taking
up
on
my
offer
to
go
on
a
bike
ride
on
comm
ave
I
was
very
illuminating,
which
is
great.
The
engineers,
of
course,
for
their
innovation
and
bold
designs,
Boston
University
for
the
leadership,
our
leaders
on
Beacon,
Hill
and.
C
C
F
And
at
MassDOT
for
funding
such
a
progressive
project
and
sticking
with
it
for
20-plus
years
at
this
point
and
I,
do
want
to
say,
of
course,
special
thanks
to
Jim
Gillooly
at
the
City
of
Boston.
He
truly
listened
to
the
community
and
he
really
shepherded
this
project
through
the
many
challenges
and
I
think
we're
all.
In
the
same
page,
we
are
looking
to
make
combat
escape
your
street
for
everybody's.
That's
certainly
a
thank
you.
There
I
also
want
to
thank
speaking
on
behalf
of
the
advocacy
campaign
that
is
still
ongoing
here.
C
F
Those
lines
I
do
also
want
to
specifically
recognize
the
tenacity
of
Matthew
Danish,
who
is
a
former
PhD
student
here
at
BU.
He
carried
the
torch
for
several
years
and
he
never
wavered
from
the
vision
that
you
wanted
to
make
com
out
with
protected
bike
lanes,
protected
intersections,
consolidated,
MBTA
stops
and
better
throughput
of
traffic.
So
just
want
to
make
that
known
to
anybody
who
doesn't
know
Matt
he's
out
in
cambridge
now
pursuing
his
postdoc
I.
Do.
A
F
Comment
phase
2
project:
this
is
a
watershed
moment
for
the
transportation
movement
here
in
Boston
and
the
Commonwealth
in
general
and
I
do
think.
It
is
symbolic
of
the
progress
that
we've
gained
through
forming
coalition's
through
working
with
all
the
stakeholders
to
the
best
outcomes.
It's
a
testament
to
the
partnerships
forged
over
years
between
the.
F
The
advocates
in
the
local
businesses
and
the
institutions
and
I
think
that's
critical
for
how
our
civil
society
will
operate.
We
all
came
together
here
and
we
all
wanted
to
figure
out
how
to
make
this
a
collaborative
effort,
and
we
all
made
a
project
that
we
can
be
proud
of.
So
I
want
to
kind
of
say
that
everybody
here
is
a
part
of
this
over
eight
years
ago,
as
was
alluded
to
by.
F
One
project
brought
the
city's
first
bike
lanes
not
far
from
where
we're
standing
right
here
and
the
city
worked
together
with
the
advocates
to
make
that
signature
project
happen,
and
thanks
greatly
to
that
success.
The
administration
then
launched
its
holistic
bicycle
program
throughout
the
city
and
we
brought
Boston
up
for
being
the
worst
cycling
city
in
America
to
being
one
of
the
best
and
as
proud.
C
F
We
were
the
city
and
bu
and
the
state
and
all
the
partners
for
giving
us
a
single
white
lane
as
a
bike
lane.
We
still
acknowledge
that
this
infrastructure
is
only
going
to
get
us
so
far.
The
challenge
before
us
now
is
how
to
get
Vikings
seen
as
a
common
and
safe
mode
of
transportation
for
everybody
and
those.
C
F
Enforcement
evaluation,
encouragement
and
most
pertinent
today,
it's
engineering
and
through
evolving
conversations
that
began
way
back
in
two
thousand
eight.
We
now
realize
that
there
is
a
distinct
limit
to
the
public
safety
when
we
as
cyclists,
are
sharing
the
street
with
automobiles,
there
will
be.
F
A
How
was
that?
How
nicely
done?
What
more
can
you
say,
but
thank
you
all
so
very
much.
This
project
is
going
to
just
be
the
new
bar
with
raise
the
bar
today
and
will
continue
to
do
so
will
continue
to
challenge
ourselves
because,
after
all,
the
roads
are
made
for
all
we
work
for
you.
This
wouldn't
be
possible
without
your
input.
Now,
let's
go
do
some
shovels.
Ok.
Thank
you
all
very
much.