National Recognition for Local Planner

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation's Right of Way Bureau, including Westwood resident and DOT Transportation Planner Linda Walsh, will receive the national 2010 Excellence in Right-of Way Award for Stewardship from the Federal Highway Administration. The award recognizes the bureau's outreach work with cities and towns across the Commonwealth to meet requirements for state and federal funding for highway construction projects.

Linda Walsh was also instrumental in bringing Safe Routes to Schools to the Downey School--the first school in Westwood to join this program.