Will Brownsberger — State Senator, Democrat, 2d Suffolk and Middlesex District

A meeting was held on Monday, May 27, 2011 in the State House to review the status of key issues in the Mystic/Alewife area with the management of the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Will, Do you know anything about the wooden walkway on the footpath next to the Alewife Brook? It is next to Cross St near the Parkway. It has been sitting there unfinished for a while. It only needs about 6 feet; does someone need to light a fire under someone to get it done? It [...]

Dear Will, Please continue to come to relate to our Forum. We will be going over the facts again in terms of flooding and forest to note that the scientific facts of the DEP Hearings were ignored. I am very sorry if we have disappointed you to continue battling. IT is a miserable position to [...]

Consider the idea of having a Belmont Park and Ride.  What if the building at the corner of Hittinger and Blanchard was purchased by the town for the joint purposes of the electrical substation and also a satellite parking garage for the Alewife train station.  Alewife is a straight shot down the bike trail.  What [...]

A meeting was held in the State House this morning with Commissioner Sullivan of the Department of Conservation and Recreation to review flooding and related priorities in the Alewife area.

I thought work was going to start  this spring on making a real trail out of the Alewife to Brighton Rd bike path? I biked on it today and it’s still the same dirt path it’s been.

I am interning in Will’s office this summer and recently attended a hearing on sewer flows into Alewife Brook and the Charles and Mystic basins, which provided a helpful status update on projects to improve water quality.   The hearing was to extend the variance allowing for a certain level of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO) into [...]

While everyone is anxious to expand pathways to get people out of their cars, Friends of Alewife Reservation remains terrified of the impact the plan will have, without careful consideration of where the pathway is.   There has been so very little attention to the rare wildlife reserve that the pathway will transverse. We have lobbied [...]

I’ve been biking down the Brighton St. – Alewife – Davis Sq. trail almost daily, and I’ve made a few observations I’d like to share.