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PARKing Day 2017

Location

Locations citywide - see map for more information

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Neighborhoods

  • Baldwin
  • Cambridge Highlands
  • Cambridgeport
  • City Wide
  • East Cambridge
  • Area 2/MIT
  • Mid-Cambridge
  • Neighborhood Nine
  • North Cambridge
  • Riverside
  • Strawberry Hill
  • The Port
  • Wellington-Harrington
  • West Cambridge

Contact

Jennifer Lawrence
jlawrence@cambridgema.gov
617-349-4671

Description

Calendar event imageJoin us on September 15 as we take over 120 parking spots and turn them into separated bike lanes, parks, art galleries, and much more!

We are thrilled to announce that the following groups are participating in our largest PARK(ing) Day celebration yet! Check out the map for more information! 


  • Reservoir Church / North Cambridge Soccer Nights: Soccer Nights Fall Fun!
  • Harvard Urban Planning Organization: Design for Everyone: Everyone can be a creator/designer/maker
  • Lesley University: College of Art and Design: Participate
  • Criminal Justice Policy Coalition: Criminal Justice Reform
  • Cambridge Water Department: Park of Microscopic Life
  • Livable Streets Alliance: The True Cost of Parking
  • Cambridge Public Library: International Day of Democracy
  • Envision Cambridge
  • Hubway Separated Bike Lane
  • Crimson Bikes: Wear your art! Create your own art helmet!
  • Bern: Wear your art! Create your own art helmet!
  • Blick: Wear your art! Create your own art helmet!
  • Vision Zero: Keep our streets safe
  • Cambridge Community Development Department: Building a Culture of Health
  • Cambridge Public Health Department: Cambridge in Motion Healthy Eating / Active Living
  • Lyft: LyftLawn
  • Friends of the Greenway
  • Harvard University CommuterChoice: Eduspaced! One day. One parking space. So much to learn.
  • Sidewalk Poetry Contest Non-Winners
  • Public Safety Spot: Police, Fire, Pro EMS, Emergency Communications and Animal Commission
  • Mothers Out Front: Bringing Paris Home
  • Cambridge Energy Alliance: Your Energy - Energy Efficient Bike and Solar cooker
  • Rejjee, Inc: Bike Registration
  • Envision Cambridge: Mobile Engagement Station
  • BoConcept Cambridge: Create your own mini succulent garden with BoConcept
  • Zumba With Jess: POUND-Rockout Fitness Class
  • Naveo Credit Union: Prize Wheel! 
  • PRACTICE Space: Practice Space Birthday Party. Practice Space turns ONE
  • SHIFT Community Bicycle Collective: Bicycle Tune-ups
  • Cambridge Health Alliance Sexual and Reproductive Health Program: Health Relationships
  • Community Development Department: Housing Division Tiny House: Calling Cambridge Home
  • Parkour Generations Boston: Parkour & movement exploration
  • Traffic, Parking and Transportation Department: Bus/Bike Interactions: Touch a Truck!
  • GreenCambridge: Solar cooking, cardboard furniture and re-use ideas
  • Victim Resource Center and Center for Homicide Bereavement: Victim of Violent Crime Awareness on the Patio
  • City of Cambridge Animal Commission
  • WeWork: WeWork Outdoors Office
  • Cambridge Community Center
  • Superpedestrian: The Future of Transportation is Personal
  • Community Development Department Economic Development: Surveying and games in Central Square
  • Harvest Co-op Market: Think Local – Buy Local – Be Local
  • Boston Cyclists Union: Design your street!
  • Department of Public Works: Zero Waste Cambridge: Recycling and Composting
  • The Dance Complex: Dance Happens Here!
  • Cambridge Community Television: LIVE with the Candidates
  • Cambridge Bicycle Safety: Separated Bike Lane
  • Boston Cares: Service Station
  • EZRide Shuttle: Bus Bike Harmony
  • Cambridge School Volunteers: ¡CSV BOOK-NOOK!
  • Cambridge Election Commission: Register to Vote
  • Soofa: Sustainable Community Love
  • GeoOrbital: Riding bikes with the pedaling optional, another day in the office!
  • Community Art Center: Home Port Public Art Project!
  • Center for EcoTechnology: NO PARK(ing) UPCYCLING ZONE

For More Information

For more information, please visit the PARK(ing) Day website at www.cambridgema.gov/parkingday

Page was last modified on 7/24/2023 10:53 PM
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