News and Perspective

Memorial Drive Redesign

• Cambridge Day article: (Lost Park) "The state is going to remake Memorial Drive. Public comment will help decide how it’s done", Feb 1, 2022

• Cambridge Day Article: "Riverbend Park was created to recapture delights of Memorial Drive land provided by Longfellow", Jan 31, 2022

• Memorial Drive Alliance's response to Mass EPA re DCR's December 15 proposal's environmental impact, January 27, 2022

• Cambridge Day article: "State brings back its plans for Memorial Drive, unannounced and changed without explanation", January 17, 2022

• Memorial Drive Phase III – Environmental Notification Form, including proposed design, December 15, 2021

• NY Times opinion piece praising Memorial Drive's Riverbend Park, car-free on Sundays, July 16, 2021

• StreetsblogMass: "DCR to Reboot Its Planning Process for Memorial Drive", Aug 14, 2020

• "Speak Up For a Safer Memorial Drive That Puts People First", Boston Cyclists Union, Jun 23, 2019

• DCR: Memorial Drive Greenway Improvements, Phase III, June 20, 2019

• "Free Parking? Good in Monopoly. Bad on Memorial Drive", Oct 2016

Partial list of serious crashes on Memorial Drive

• Northeastern Rowing Coaches Save Man After He Drives Car Into River During Medical Episode, Sept 28, 2021

• SUV plunges into Charles River after crash on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Aug 24, 2021

• Pedestrian Suffers Life-Threatening Injuries in Memorial Drive Crash, Apr 30,2021 (28 yo woman, near Dunster House)

• 74 yo pedestrian involved in Cambridge crash has died from her injuries, Mar 4, 2020 (Juzhen Feng, near Ames St./MIT)

• Ped hit at Plympton St by vehicle turning from Mem Dr. 9/7/2018

• Woman Dies After Being Hit By Car In Cambridge, May 17, 2017 (Molly Doub, near Microcenter)

• Dump Truck hits cyclist, July 2016 (Middle aged black woman cyclist, at Mem Drive end of Mass Ave Bridge)

• Pedestrian Killed in Morning Car Crash on Memorial Dr., Aug 19, 2014 (50 yo Mark C. Keiser, East of Mass Ave Bridge)

• Petition to MIT and Gov after MIT Sailing staff was critically injured 2 weeks after similar crash, Nov 14, 2014 (Phil Gilbert, near MIT Sailing Pavillion)

• BU Student killed on Memorial Drive; First-year struck by oncoming car, Oct 4, 2006 (Beatriz Ponce, at crossing at Amesbury Street)

• Teen Dies After High-Speed Crash, Dec 28, 2005 (Shin Gil Moon, near Longfellow Bridge)

Map of serious crashes recorded by police on Memorial Drive and Edwin Land Boulevard, 2010-Oct 2021

Click on map for more detail. (with thanks to Jason Downing)