Mayor Wu’s recently-published budget proposal appears to eliminate dozens of capital projects from the city’s five-year capital plan, according to a comparison of this year’s fiscal year 2027 proposal with the current fiscal year 2026 enacted budget.
In a few cases, projects have been removed from the city’s capital plan because they’ve been built or completed: that’s the case with the city’s $223 million Bill Russell Bridge project, which opened last year, and the Walsh-era “Neighborhood Slow Streets” program, which Mayor Wu has supplanted with the more comprehensive “safety surge” initiative.
But the vast majority of budget changes are going to affect projects that were still in the planning and design stages…