Boston’s Longwood Collective New Report Documents Success Promoting Transit Use, Non-Car Travel Options
Boston's Longwood Collective operates a fleet of 37 LMA Shuttle buses serving the internationally renowned Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA). Promotion by the Longwood Collective and its members of mass transit, carpooling, biking, and walking have achieved a major "mode shift" decrease in people using single-occupancy vehicles to get to and from the LMA--even as employment and patient visits in the district have soared since 2000. (Photo: The Longwood Collective)
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Boston's Longwood Collective operates a fleet of 37 LMA Shuttle buses serving the internationally renowned Longwood Medical and Academic Area (LMA). - Representing a 213-acre innovation and economic hub, altogether Longwood institutions employ 68,000 workers, educate 27,000 students, and drive $30 billion in annual economic activity .
- With its many world-leading hospitals, Longwood also needs 24/7 transit services for the thousands of workers.
- Founded in 1972, the Longwood Collective was formerly known as MASCO.