Mayor Wu is shaking up the leadership in her Streets Cabinet in the aftermath of last month’s homicide of Louisa Gag, who was killed by a truck driver while riding her bike in Mission Hill.
Interim Chief of Streets Nick Gove, who had publicly struggled to manage the city’s street infrastructure projects during his brief tenure as the city’s Chief of Streets this year, is being demoted back into his former role.
To replace him, Mayor Wu has tapped a considerably more experienced manager, Chris Osgood.
Osgood has already served in the role: he’d been Mayor Marty Walsh’s first and only Chief of Streets after Walsh initially created the cabinet-level position to oversee the city’s Public Works and Transportation Departments in 2015…