Bike lanes pit construction mogul against Boston Mayor Michelle Wu
Boston construction mogul Jay Cashmancq used to be a big supporter of Mayor Michelle Wu. Then came the bike lane on Dartmouth Street in front of his Back Bay mansion.
That was last fall, and the two haven’t talked since.
“This is about the whole city for me now,” Cashman recalled telling Wu in October. “You basically woke me up. This thing is really wrong.”
Cashman is taking bike lane backlash to a whole new level. He’s pouring his own time and money into an advocacy group he launched called Pedal Safe Boston. He’s convening neighborhood groups and meeting with lawmakers about legislative fixes to create bike lane standards.
He has even spent $100,000 to evaluate whether a statewide ballot measure to regulate bike lanes would be a more effective way to make streets safer.
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