A city engineer warned, in a 2025 internal email message, that the mayor’s abrupt turn against speed hump installations would put the public’s safety at risk: “We know there will be excessive speeding… This decision has caused an incredible amount of internal conflict for me, I don’t think it’s the right choice.”
One of Mayor Wu’s most popular first-term programs – a “safety surge” of speed hump installations on neighborhood streets across the city – has been paused indefinitely for two years, and city officials say that the mayor herself is responsible for throttling the popular program.
Mayor Wu’s 2023 “safety surge” initiative called on the city to install up to 500 new speed humps on an annual basis on smaller neighborhood side streets…