Ed Brennen Itâs a challenge that has befuddled campus planners for years: How to make the half-mile stretch of Pawtucket Street that connects South Campus to the rest of the university more inviting for pedestrians and bicyclists.
A UMass Lowell student is hard at work on a solution.
Jenna Howard â19, a part-time transportation engineering graduate student, also works full time as a transportation infrastructure designer for a local civil engineering firm called The Engineering Corp (TEC). Last year, the university hired TEC to design the âPawtucket Greenway,â thanks to a $57,000 MassTrails grant from the stateâs Department of Conservation and Recreation.