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Maverick Square Transportation Action Plan

Building on visioning in PLAN: East Boston, we're advancing ideas to improve safety, connectivity, and placemaking in Maverick Square. We're focusing on supporting the small businesses, improving the public realm, and making it easier and safer to walk, bike, and take transit in the square.

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The City of Boston's Transportation Department (BTD) is leading this transportation action plan. Over the next year, we will work with the community to build on PLAN: East Boston to:

  • Maintain and uplift the vibrancy that makes Maverick Square a great place
  • Increase the comfort, safety, attractiveness, and accessibility of walking, biking, taking transit, and lingering in Maverick Square
  • Advance proposals in deep collaborative partnership with local residents, community leaders, stakeholders, and businesses.

During Summer 2024, we issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a consultant to help us with planning, design, and engagement. Beginning in early 2025, we'll begin reaching out to the community for feedback as we start gathering existing conditions data. We'll use this feedback to create potential options for the way the square could be designed to better serve all its uses and users.

PROJECT GOALS

Project Goals
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UPLIFT THE VIBRANCY OF MAVERICK SQUARE

Maverick Square is a key gateway to East Boston. It's one of the most vibrant commercial squares in the City. This project will use transportation planning to support placemaking and community development.

MAKE IT EASIER TO WALK, BIKE, AND TAKE TRANSIT

This project will increase safety for all users, first and foremost. Importantly, too, will be improvements to transit operations at the busy Maverick Station, 

CLOSELY COLLABORATE WITH RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES

We will ensure that community input is incorporated at every stage of the project. We'll only be successful if we work together to develop visions to improve and invest in the transportation networks and public realm of Maverick Square.

TIMELINE

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PLAN: East Boston included an initial look at East Boston. Now, we're ready to advance those ideas:

  1. Hire a consultant: We issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) in Summer 2024. We'll aim to have a consultant onboard to help us with planning, design, engineering, and engagement by the end of 2024.
  2. Initial community engagement: We'll begin reaching out to the community for feedback in early 2025. We'll ask about our project design principles. We'll ask you about how you use Maverick Square, how often, what the major concerns are, and what your vision for it would be.
  3. Street redesign vision: Throughout 2025, we'll provide many ways to get involved with the design. We'll ask for your help in prioritizing strategies and steering our work.

GET INVOLVED

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We're interested in hearing from you! As soon as we have more information on all the different ways you can get involved, we'll update this section. For now, you can provide your email using this form, and we'll share information about public meetings and other project-specific details as we have them. 

PROJECT MATERIALS

Project Materials
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Read more about the plan at this link.

Read more about the visions for Maverick Square laid out in the plan at these links (English and Español).

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