GoHubs!
We are making it more convenient for people to get around by installing GoHubs! They offer more options to travel, meet up, and find your way.
Whether walking, riding a bike, riding the bus or train, sharing a ride or hailing one, or even charging your electric car, these mobility hubs will help you connect to your destination. GoHubs! will get us closer to the Go Boston 2030 goal of “Every home in Boston will be within a 10 minute walk of a rail station or key bus route, Bluebikes station, and car-share.’”
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Transportation
GoHubs! Mobility Hub Guidebook
The GoHubs! Guidebook details Boston's approach to implementing GoHubs!
GoHubs! Explained
What is a GoHub!?
- GoHubs! or ‘Neighborhood Mobility micro Hubs,’ combine transportation options, information, and placemaking elements to make travel across the city and metro region more convenient.
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Are branded, visible, and anchored by bus stops, subway stations, and Bluebikes stations
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Include amenities such as informational kiosks, seating, Wi-Fi, device charging, and public art
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Form a network to improve first and last-mile connections, and make it easier to travel within a neighborhood
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Create a public space where new amenities, new transportation modes, and community activities can occur
Why are they important?
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Most residents travel by public transit, biking, and walking. Public space should accommodate these modes, and it must be safe, reliable, and welcoming.
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Shared mobility and new technology advances are adding more transportation options each day. Having identified space allows us to plan in advance, rather than be reactive.
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To combat climate change we must adopt more sustainable modes of transportation. Multi-modal trips must be stress free to reduce dependence on private vehicles.
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New modes of travel and technology may present barriers to access. Information must be be provided to reduce those barriers.
This graphic highlights an example of a Maverick Square GoHub!. Located across the street from the Maverick T Station. This graphic highlights the location of the GoHub! components. The GoHub! sites are "quick build," with most components identified through signage and paint. Larger components include the solar smart bench, Bluebikes station, and planters.
As part of Phase One of our GoHubs! Expansion, we’re bringing GoHubs! to four new locations in Dorchester, Roxbury and Mattapan.
- Grove Hall Library
- Mattapan Library
- Codman Square Library
- Hemenway Playground
- community input
- proximity to bus and subway stops
- gaps in transportation access, in particular bikeshare and car share, and
- equity considerations, including identifying environmental justice communities.
Each site will share a core set of amenities, including wayfinding information, bike parking, seating, tables, and public art.
Amenities will be uniquely tailored to each site, based on site conditions and an interactive community engagement process.
Give us your Feedback
Let us know what you think about GoHubs! Email newmobility@boston.gov or fill out the Google Form below to leave feedback on GoHubs!
News and Events
Mobility Hubs: Lessons and Learnings from Pilot Programs in Minneapolis and Boston
We joined Urbanism Next and Minneaplis to present on the GoHubs! project. Click here to access the recorded webinar and presentations.
GoHubs! Expansion Pop-up Events
Join us this June at each of our four new expansion locations to learn more about our new GoHubs!
Who's Involved:
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Have questions? Contact:
Transportation
