Mayor Wu promised safer streets.
Instead, her administration is tearing out bus and bike lanes, sidelining safety projects, and repaving over corridors like Hyde Park Avenue where hundreds have been injured. Thousands of riders and residents are being left behind. The Boston Better Streets Coalition is keeping score, demanding action, and fighting back.
Even as she coasts toward reelection, Mayor Wu is retreating. With safe streets turned into a political flashpoint, she has chosen to placate a vocal minority instead of defending the bold policies she once championed. In a moment that calls for courage, she’s standing down.
We’re tracking every broken promise, every project shelved in the name of “community process,” every corridor where the city nods and does nothing. We’re calling out the lip service—and pressing Boston to make the hard decisions it keeps deferring.