Mayor Wu is postponing a plan to improve State Street in downtown Boston with wider, wheelchair-accessible sidewalks, safer crosswalks, and a protected bikeway connection.
Instead, the city will pay to re-pave the street this summer, preserving many of the street’s well-documented safety problems under a fresh coat of asphalt.
State Street runs from the Rose Kennedy Greenway to the Old State House in downtown Boston. In its current layout, the most of State Street’s public space is set aside for cars and trucks, even though the vast majority of the street’s users are pedestrians…