Transportation
Watertown should be investing in innovative approaches to transportation management, such as improving bike networks and bike sharing programs, maintaining sidewalks that promote pedestrian friendly neighborhoods, expanding and improving local transit, and creating charging stations for electric vehicles. Most importantly, Watertown leaders must offer solutions to the biggest piece of the problem; long-haul commuters. Local streets have become mini-highways, which has increased congestion and greenhouse gas emissions. Local transportation initiatives should aim to reduce the number of cars on our roads. Incentives to local businesses promoting telecommuting as an option to their employees, creating a transportation management association (TMA), and simple solutions such as re-timing and synchronization of traffic signals to reduce idling and rapid accelerations/deceleration are all measures I support.