The following is an open letter to elected and appointed officials and park friends with numerous originators who wrote the letter, followed by organizations that signed onto support the letter. Representatives for the Arborway Coalition, Emerald Necklace Conservancy, Southwest Corridor Park Management Advisory Committee, and more signed the letter.
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The following letter was sent to the Jamaica Hills Association and Jamaica Pond Association
I was shocked to learn that you sent a letter to the DCR commissioner regarding the Arborway redesign project. Upon reading the letter I was disappointed (but not surprised) to learn that it espouses exclusionary, anti-pedestrian, anti-cyclist agendas alongside other generic NIMBY tropes.
As communities across Greater Boston feel the effects of the MBTA’s 30-day Orange Line shut down we the representatives of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts (BECMA), with the support of the Coalition for an Equitable Economy, and the Asian Business Empowerment Council (ABEC) want to register our deep concern about the impact this shutdown will have on our community members, many of whom are Black and Asian residents that rely on the MBTA for transportation every day.
