People Before Highways mural is dedicated.

Designed by John Bassett and Ken Kruckemeyer, it is located outside the Roxbury Crossing MBTA station at 1420 Tremont Street. The mural/plaque includes the names of more than 150 community activists, planners, and elected officials who helped stop construction of the proposed Inner Belt and Southwest Expressway. It reads, in part, “A few people meeting in an apartment in Jamaica Plain grew into a movement involving thousands of citizens from neighborhoods in Boston and surrounding towns . . . [that] convinced public officials to stop the highway, to save homes and neighborhoods, and to protect public parkland . . . [and] turn the Southwest Corridor into the public transportation and park project you see today.”