Michael Long: Safety and equity priority for multi-use streets

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Michael Long, who served more than a decade on the Burlington Development Review Board and has lived in Burlington since 1975. He now teaches English and was a high school teacher in Colchester from 1975 until 2015.
What Burlington city officials have dubbed the “base concept” for Bank and Cherry streets is in utter opposition to at least three of the four stated “primary goals” for these streets: that they be walkable, bikeable,