WalkBoston was joined by Interim Boston Transportation Commissioner, Greg Rooney; Chief of Streets Chris Osgood; and BTD Director of Planning Vineet Gupta for a “traffic signals walk” on August 1. The first impacts of the walk are now visible!

Last week, @BostonBTD changed Washington & Milk to flashing red lights and covered up the WALK signals. Thanks for taking this recommendation & simplifying the intersection to work better! pic.twitter.com/rn2rKGij5t

— WalkMassachusetts (@WalkMass) September 4, 2019

The misleading and incorrectly timed traffic signal at the intersection of Milk and Washington Streets has been replaced with a much more appropriate flashing Red Light. This means that all the traffic (of which there is not very much) will stop and yield to the (many) pedestrians crossing the street. We want to thank BTD for this fix, and look forward to many more fixes in the coming months. WalkBoston will continue working to improve traffic signals for pedestrians across the City and beyond.