Posted on 08/15/2025 5:13:16 AM PDT by fruser1
Jay Cashman, 72, poured millions into Mayor Michelle Wu's election in 2021, but became outraged when the new two-lane bike path was erected outside his $19 million mansion on Dartmouth Street last year, according to the Boston Globe.
It was just part of Wu's plans to build an an elaborate cycling network around the city, as she doubled the number of dedicated bike lanes in Boston since she took office to 15 miles.
Her administration had identified Dartmouth Street 'as a bike corridor project' because it provides direct access to the Charles River Esplanade, which city officials called a 'daily destination for residents, commuters and visitors alike.'
But Cashman has argued that these new bike lanes were hastily built and ignored critics' concerns, which ranged from safety risks, loss of parking spaces, more congested street traffic and slower response times for emergency vehicles.
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A feel good story.
Photoshopped... Too lazy to take a real picture?
Indeed!
Classic NIMBY
“Rules for thee but not for me...”
I’d be MORE outraged having to look at that glass skyscraper monstrosity from my Historic Home!
Hey, Richy Rich? Move. Out to the country. Or to ANOTHER country. ;)
The first thing CCP puppet Wu did after being elected was give the chief of police a list with the names of her political enemies. Now this guy is going to be added.
I didn’t know a bike lane is something you erect.
Photoshopped... Too lazy to take a real picture?
Scrooge being labeled a racist or sexist but Chinese women shouldn’t hold any major political positions like being the mayor of Boston.
Jay Cashman.
What a name.
That’s the way you do it, money for nothing (politician does what they want) and get your bike lanes for free…….
Boston on its way to being a third world $hihole….with new bike paths!
Ahh, a REAL photo would have shown bumper-to-bumper traffic on the former four-lane now two-lane road, and NOT ONE bicycle on the path, just a bunch of homeless tents.
Can't have reality biting their fantasy.
An area the city of Orlando is trying to gentrify on US 441 now has bike lanes and a separate sidewalk on one side of the road. I’ve never seen a bike there in 5 years.
The city of Boston wanted to show what the bike lane WILL (supposedly) look like after the dust has settled?
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