Salem Awarded State Grant To Buy Bicycle Stations

Salem MA

02 February, 2021

1:21 PM

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SALEM, MA — A state grant will go toward installing eight Bluebike stations and 50 bicycles aimed at connecting key transit routes and residential neighborhoods with Salem's commercial, cultural and educational destinations. The $20,000 grant is part of the state's Shared Winter Streets & Spaces Program Funding Awards announced this week. The Shared Winter Streets & Spaces program, which was launched on Nov. 10, provides technical and funding assistance to help Massachusetts cities and towns conceive, design and implement tactical changes to curbs, streets, and parking areas in support of public health, safe mobility, and renewed commerce, with a special focus on the particular challenges of winter. Grants as small as $5,000 and as large as $500,000 for municipalities to quickly launch changes for safer walking, biking, public transit, recreation, commerce, and civic activities. These improvements can be intentionally temporary or can be pilots of potentially permanent changes. Did you find this article useful? Invite a friend to subscribe to Patch. (Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Peabody. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)