SMART Conference Participants 
Ken Kruckemeyer
Ken Kruckemeyer has been walking, cycling, riding the transit (and driving) in Boston since he arrived there as a student in 1963. Along with many others, he stopped construction of the South End By-Pass, the Inner Belt and the Southwest Expressway. He then went on to manage the design of the transit, railroad, streets and new parkland of the Southwest Corridor that took the highway’s place. Subsequently, he become a Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, in charge of highway and bridge design. Ken was a leader in the realization of “Tent City”, a resident-controlled mixed income housing development in Boston’s South End. More recently he has taught engineering and planning students at MIT to design transport systems that will nurture the urban environment. He consults as a Transportation Strategist; and is a co-Director of the International Honors Program: “Cities in the 21st Century.”
Ken is an Architect with degrees from Princeton University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at Harvard University. As a vigilant advocate for the public sphere, he is a founding member of WalkBoston and the Livable Streets Alliance.
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