To stop skyrocketing energy costs, MA needs battery storage.
It was the speed-hump nightmare on Allandale Street that really tore it.
In early February of last year, barely a month after gung-ho bureaucrats from Boston’s Streets Cabinet jammed 13 speed humps into a quiet stretch of Allandale near Faulkner Hospital (reducing traffic to a crawl and assuring patients in ambulances of a spine-jarringly bumpy ride), the backlash against the city’s street-traffic makeover reached critical mass. The humps were dumped. Mayor Michelle Wu ordered a 30-day review of the bus and bike lane expansions that had infuriated many residents and business owners, conducted by a team that notably did not include hyper-aggressive Chief of Streets Jascha Franklin-Hodge…