What is Michelle Wu’s Transportation Plan for the Next Four Years? Hopefully Not More of the Same

BOSTON, MA – Today, Josh Kraft challenged Michelle Wu to tell the voters what she’s going to do to clean up the mess she’s created on the streets and sidewalks of Boston and to make it easier for families, seniors, and the disabled to move around the city.   

“What is Michelle Wu’s transportation plan for Boston? Is it more of the same? I think the voters deserve to know,” said Josh Kraft. “Other than a 30-day review of her poorly designed and installed bike lanes, Michelle Wu has been silent on what her plan is to clean up the mess she’s made of our streets and sidewalks.”

“Under Michelle Wu, moving around Boston has become more difficult for everyone due to her haphazardly installed bike lanes, inability to fix potholes, and disregard for the condition of our sidewalks,” said Kraft. “Boston can’t afford four more years of mismanagement and neglect of our transportation system.”   

A visit to Michelle Wu’s campaign website shows not a single mention of her plans to improve our transportation system, nor any policy issue, just a plea for donations and volunteers. 

In contrast, Josh Kraft has laid out a comprehensive transportation plan that would reduce congestion and make it easier for people to move around the city, reduce our carbon footprint, and connect housing and transit in a smarter and more equitable way.

Kraft’s transportation plan includes a “Pothole Rapid Response Team” to address basic maintenance failures, a citywide sidewalk initiative that enforces ADA compliance from day one, and a “Clear the Curb” strategy to reduce chaos on Boston’s streets and restore functionality for residents. Kraft’s plan would also strengthen the city’s voice with the MBTA, and would link transit improvements to housing development through a new Housing and Transportation Czar.

“Transit is at the heart of Boston’s future. If we don’t get it right, if we keep accepting delays, dysfunction, and silence from City Hall – we risk becoming a city that doesn’t work for the people who live here,” said Kraft. “I’m offering a substantive and detailed plan, built for all the people who need to move around the city every single day.”

Michelle Wu’s bike lane review and audit simply confirms what Josh Kraft has been saying – that the bike lanes were installed without taking into account community feedback, without data, and in the absence of any concern for traffic congestion and the impact on small businesses, seniors, the disabled community, and families with small children. Josh Kraft will end the improvisation and deliver a system built on facts, safety and public trust.

“You can’t lead a city with slogans and scattered initiatives,” said Kraft. “Transportation is one of the most urgent challenges facing this city, and Mayor Wu has offered no serious plan to address it. She makes unilateral decisions without public input, and refuses to explain what her end goal actually is. That’s not leadership — it’s deflection.”

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