On April 29th, the Cambridge City Council will be discussing delaying critically needed bike and pedestrian safety improvements. The dangerous Policy Order they are discussing would:

• Ban installation of bike lanes on the critical routes of Cambridge St, Broadway, and Main St until as late as mid-2025.

• Delay the legal deadlines for almost all planned quick-build bike lane and pedestrian safety projects, including Cambridge St, Broadway, and Main St, from April 2026 to November 2027, allowing city staff to delay these projects even more. Depending on how exactly a hypothetical delay change is implemented, for many streets the deadline could end up delayed to late 2029!

On Cambridge St alone, since 2021 there have been at least 65 crashes of people on bikes, pedestrians, and other forms of active transportation, which led to at least 43 people being injured. Of those injured, at least 27 left in an ambulance. We need to build safer infrastructure without delay!

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