This autumn, workers are putting the finishing touches on a major reconfiguration of Walter Street and Centre Street in West Roxbury, at the western edge of the Arnold Arboretum.
The project is shrinking the intersection of the two streets and significantly expanding sidewalks in a bid to calm traffic and improve pedestrian safety at the intersection of the two streets.
The new design also includes short segments of sidewalk-level protected bike lanes that extend about 100 meters out from each of the intersection’s three legs on Centre and Walter Street.
The state’s Department of Conservation and Recreation is managing the project. Centre Street between the Arborway and VFW Parkway is technically a “parkway” under the jurisdiction of the state’s parks agency, even though the parkland is paved under asphalt…