SCHOOLS
CCC’s goals re. School Committee candidates and elected members:
- Promote transparency in educational, school-related, and administrative decision-making, processes of implementation processes, and communication.
- Promote team and community building both within and across various groups of constituents
- Promote various avenues for success in addressing different types of educational challenges, redressing differentials in equity and achievement, and create a work environment where all levels of learning are facilitated.
- Promote clearcut educational goals and policies
- Establish criteria to determine if these goals and policies are being met and dates by which achievement will be marked.
- Provide a means to regularly evaluate and publish accountability metrics.
- Promote a committee and workplace setting of good communication, collegiality, and respect.
CHILDCARE & UNIVERSAL PRE-K
Cambridge should continue to invest in Universal Pre-K and expand access to affordable, high-quality childcare for working families. Reliable early childhood education helps children thrive, supports parents' ability to work, and strengthens the local economy. As housing and living costs rise, childcare assistance is essential to ensure that Cambridge remains a city where families of all income levels can live, work, and build their futures.
Cambridge should continue to invest in Universal Pre-K and expand access to affordable, high-quality childcare for working families. Reliable early childhood education helps children thrive, supports parents' ability to work, and strengthens the local economy. As housing and living costs rise, childcare assistance is essential to ensure that Cambridge remains a city where families of all income levels can live, work, and build their futures.
TRANSIT
Cambridge has launched an aggressive policy to add more bicycle lanes citywide, replacing travel lanes and parking places to do this. Three rationales are in play: lowering the level of vehicle ownership/use in Cambridge, addressing climate change, and bicyclist safety. Meanwhile city and area public transportation opportunities have dramatically declined due to cost and other factors.
Cambridge was once a U.S. leader in the transit industry,
and thought and planned about future. Now it is only bike lanes that are pushed.
READ: "The Imaginary Future of Cambridge Transportation" (2.25.25) by John Pitkin: HERE
2025 City Transit Report: HERE
PARKING CONCERNS
Cambridge is planning to remove 60% of residential parking along Broadway starting to comply with the Cycling Safety Ordinance (CSO), which will replace street parking with wide-shouldered bike lanes which will cause severe hardship for many residents. Local neighborhood and business parking is removed
Cambridge and area traffic grid lock is getting worse. READ: HERE
Stalled traffic and response. READ: HERE
Public Transit: Boston Bus Priority Vision
(Cambridge is Not Part of It)
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Bicycling & Street Use: Two Often Divergent Advocacy Groups
Bicycling in Cambridge 2023 Data Report
Boston Area Blue Bike Data 2011-2022
Boston area Blue Bike Data: This chart shows both increasing use and sizable seasonal differences (summer tourist period: high; winter local use low).
City Crash Data
Local Bicycling-Transit and Planning Studies
Factors Behind some of the Street Changes to Consider.
Parking Related Documents
Public Transportation
National Studies on Urban Bicycling Lanes and Use
Citizens' Successful Opposition to the Proposed Inner Belt Thruway in Cambridge
