City Hall is planning to repave Hyde Park Avenue this fall without implementing any of the safety improvements they’ve previously proposed for the neighborhood – a decision that has left neighbors fuming, and city councilors demanding more transparency from the administration.
“They stole a bunch of our evenings in meetings,” Benjamin Siegel, a Forest Hills resident, told StreetsblogMASS. “I talked with the mayor about this at a one of her neighborhood coffee hours, and she told us to ‘keep on engaging, keep on making your voices heard.’ We did that. We mobilized hundreds of people in our neighborhood to ask for safety improvements, and they ignored us anyway.”
At the August 6 Boston City Council meeting, Councilor Benjamin Weber, who represents Roslindale and Jamaica Plain, told his colleagues that there had been “a long planning process for improving Hyde Park Avenue, with very little action.”…