Dear Mayor Fuller, What is the responsibility of a community to address an intersection that the state recognizes as a “High-Crash Cluster”? The posts, bridges and signs at Albemarle/Crafts tell the story of that designation, as they lie broken, flattened and splintered by cars unable to proceed safely through—and yet this cluster is part andContinue reading “Make It Safer: A Petition”
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Letter in Support of Gath Pool Funding
To the Community Preservation Committee, We’re excited about the progress that is being made on renovating Gath Pool. We advocate for moving forward rapidly with investment into this citywide asset and community resource that impacts all of Newton. We appreciate the work and effort taken thus far and look forward to investing time and energyContinue reading “Letter in Support of Gath Pool Funding”
More than a fender-bender
There’s so much exciting progress happening at Albemarle that it seems like a shame to spend time publicizing the cars that crash into it, but if we can’t improve the traffic situation, we will never be able to enjoy the pool, forest, fields or playgrounds. Here’s the scene from Wednesday February 8 on North streetContinue reading “More than a fender-bender”
FOUR high-speed accidents in EIGHT weeks
Click each photo to enlarge An Albemarle emergency: On an average of every other week for two months, there has been a major accident that totals vehicles and destroys infrastructure. (I assume it also injures people, but cannot confirm that.) Right now the corner of Albemarle and Crafts is a sea of snapped posts, cautionContinue reading “FOUR high-speed accidents in EIGHT weeks”
Today’s accident
Does anyone know what happened here? It looks like two vehicles collided and one flipped, but it’s not clear what either driver was trying to do. From 1/17/23, a weekday between 10:30-11am. Here are the MassDOT safety recommendations for this intersection and here is the petition to implement them. Please sign!
Today’s accident
Seen below, the accident from today at Albemarle and Crafts, a Mass DOT high-crash intersection. This is the third crash in the past month from speeding. Accident from 11/18 Accident from 12/8 There are safety recommendations for this intersection that are yet to be implemented. There is a petition to implement them (with 187 signersContinue reading “Today’s accident”
Another accident
Where is this? At the intersection of Albemarle and Crafts, which Mass DOT identified as a “high-crash” zone, and for which lengthy recommendations have been developed. A petition is actively collecting signatures to urge Newton to take the next step and implement the report action steps – please sign. What happened? Seems as though aContinue reading “Another accident”
Letter to the Newton Traffic Council
December 7, 2022 To the Newton Traffic Council, We, the board of Friends of Albemarle, are writing in strong support of the item TC58 -22, being considered by the Council on December 15. It reads as follows: JASON SOBEL, DIRECTOR OF TRANSPORTATION OPERATIONS, requesting to permanently close the northbound block of Albemarle Road to vehicularContinue reading “Letter to the Newton Traffic Council”
Petition for a Safer Albemarle
Yesterday morning a high-speed crash sent a car flying into Cheesecake Brook at the corner of Albemarle and Crafts streets. This is the same intersection defined as a “high-crash cluster” by Mass DOT. This immediately follows our Fall Newsletter last week about Mass DOT’s proposed improvements to the area. We now have added a petitionContinue reading “Petition for a Safer Albemarle”
Opportunity for NSHS Pool
Good morning Mayor Fuller, This past spring and summer we, the Board of Friends of Albemarle, successfully advocated to add a study for an indoor pool onto the CIP. The lack of a pool at Newton South High School creates a lopsided demand loop in Newton as their swim team requires the use of theContinue reading “Opportunity for NSHS Pool”
Friends of Albemarle 