CHS Student Mallory Cyr Featured in Boston Globe Article.

Mallory Cyr, a community health sciences concentrator, was featured in a recent Boston Globe story examining the growth of a program designed to train seniors and disabled persons on the best ways to navigate the MBTA system. Cyr participated in a test tun of the new service and received early training. 

From the Boston Globe:

Mallory Cyr, 28, was warned by friends when she moved to Boston last August: Because she uses a motorized scooter to get around, Cyr would find the T impossible to navigate.

“I actually had people say to me, ‘You’re going to Boston; are you crazy?’ ” said Cyr, who lives in Allston. But she moved anyway. “I’m not going to select where I live based on my physical limitations.”

Almost a year later, she said, she has proved them wrong, taking the Green Line for many of her daily errands. Much of the credit for her commuting success, she said, goes to a new training program at the MBTA.

The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority announced Tuesday that the program that has helped Cyr will provide improved travel training for older riders and people with disabilities who would like to use public transportation.

In years past, the T has provided individual help, teaching people to use the system and plan routes, but few were aware of the service.

With a new federally funded program, called Ways2Go, the T will be able to hold group seminars and provide more in-depth coaching.

Read the full story at BostonGlobe.com