The Boston Globe | By Niki Griswold | November 7, 2026
Mayor Michelle Wu’s administration is restarting street safety and bike projects that stalled last year, from reinstalled bike-lane posts downtown to the Blue Hill Avenue redesign and new protected bike lanes in Mission Hill. Advocates credit interim chief of streets Chris Osgood with reopening communication with the community, but say the city still needs a clear plan, with timelines, for its streets work.
“Generally we feel like there is like a positive momentum that we’re building ... proactively think[ing] about the things that need to be done instead of coming together in a moment of crisis and putting out fires,” said Maha Aslam, transit and streets program manager at the street safety nonprofit LivableStreets Alliance.