MIT will have to address the traffic in Kendall Square
How many mornings have you gotten caught in the bottleneck that is Kendall Square traffic?
There may be fewer of those frustrating commutes soon as Cambridge officials urge MIT to fund transit improvements as part of the university’s redevelopment project in the area, STAT reports.
MIT’s $1.2 billion redevelopment project calls for converting six parking lots into offices, research space, hundreds of units of housing, and more than 100,000 square feet of retail, according to STAT. These changes would mean more than 5,800 vehicle trips and 7,500 transit trips added to the area each day.
In a memo to the Planning Board, the Cambridge Traffic, Parking, and Transportation Department staff wrote that the university has made “no substantial commitments’’ to ease the burden of these new demands.
Now, the chairman of MIT’s transportation and parking committee said the university will work with the city to alleviate these traffic issues, according to STAT.
Read the full STAT story here.
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