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Patrick Gordon <pgordon@medford-ma.gov>
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We hope to hear an update this evening (Wednesday, June 30, 6 pm) on these issues, at an update on the 
In the past two years, three pedestrians - 
For
60 years, traffic on I-93 has poured air pollution and noise onto
residents along its path in the lowest income part of Somerville. For
decades, activists have pushed for sound barriers along the highway to
protect those residents. Researchers have documented the devastating
damage and continuing danger to people who live along I-93 that runs
through the part of Somerville with the lowest income, and the most
Black and Latino people. They have also documented that that area has
been most affected by COVID-19, for many reasons including lung damage
from long-term exposure to pollution. 
The
Mystic Housing project is within 50-100 m of Rtes 38 and 93. At those
distances they have a 54% higher death rate from heart disease and a 60%
higher rate of lung cancer. By definition, the people who live there
are low-income (with less than 80% of the area’s median household
income) and the proportion of Black and Latino people is twice as high
as in the rest of Somerville and 3 times as high as in Massachusetts. 
The
States Avenues section of East Somerville, where some houses are within
less than 30 feet of highways with 7 or more lanes of traffic, is also
an environmental justice community. The research helps us
understand why people in that neighborhood have died of lung cancer who
never smoked a cigarette. 
Working
with Ellin Reisner and Wig Zamore of the Somerville Transportation
Equity Partnership as well as many others, Representatives Barber and
Connolly and I filed legislation (H2230 and S1447, An Act to Improve
Outdoor and Indoor Air Quality for Communities Burdened by
Transportation Pollution) which had a well-attended hearing last week.
It's endorsed by the EJ Table and many other groups, shown in the
graphic. You can watch the hearing 
The
Somerville delegation met last week with John Dalton, Program Manager
for the Green Line Extension (GLX), who told us that construction is 80%
complete, with 65% of the track laid.
