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Research bureau tells Worcester council: parking revenue up, crash risk concentrated near transit and redlined neighborhoods
Summary
The Worcester Regional Research Bureau presented three reports showing increased public garage usage since 2021, growth in Passport app revenues, and an analysis of vulnerable-road-user crashes that found higher severe-crash risk near WRTA stops and in historically redlined neighborhoods.
Paul Matthews, executive director and CEO of the Worcester Regional Research Bureau, briefed the committee on three reports the bureau released this year: Feeding the Meter (public parking usage), Public Parking: Worcester’s past, present and future, and Towards Safer Streets (risk factors for vulnerable road users).
Matthews said Passport app data and garage counts show increased public garage usage since 2021, with Major Taylor garage among the busiest. The bureau mapped public garage…
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