A story reported by Niki Griswold for the Boston Globe this weekend alleges that Mayor Michelle Wu is personally intervening to block long-planned street safety and transit improvement projects across Boston, putting millions of dollars in state and federal funding at risk and undermining the morale of the professionals in her Streets Cabinet.
Griswold’s report relies on 11 current and former City Hall employees, who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation from the mayor’s office.
Although the sources are anonymous, the allegations comport with the extensive project delays and lack of official communication from City Hall since the mayor issued her so-called “30-day review” of street projects last year.
For Ben Siegel, a Forest Hills resident who has been begging the city to implement planned safety improvements on Hyde Park Avenue, the Globe’s report aligns with his own conversations with city staff, who agree in private conversations that Hyde Park Avenue is a dangerous roadway that needs a redesign…