A planned safety upgrade for Bennington Street near Day Square – one of the neighborhood’s most dangerous streets – is on the verge of cancellation by Mayor Wu’s streets commissioners.
A new 170-home mixed-use development that’s currently under construction on the southern edge of Day Square had been planning to build, with private funding, significant safety improvements to a 500-foot segment of Bennington Street between Day Square and Neptune Road.
But in a hearing last week at Boston’s Public Improvements Commission – a panel of city transportation a public works officials that reviews infrastructure changes to the city’s public streets – an agent of the project’s developer revealed a new plan that would scrap the safety improvements in favor of creating more more publicly-subsidized private vehicle storage…