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The distant prospect of new ferries and gondolas may be in the headlines this week, but we begin today with a return to the streets. Parking Stop
Get ready to see more speed humps around Boston. Mayor Michelle Wu announced a new plan yesterday aimed at making the city’s streets more safe and comfortable for pedestrians, cyclists and drivers alike. A major pillar of the plan is the installation of about 1,500 new speed humps over the next three years on side streets across the city.
Almost seven years after voters approved a law to legalize recreational marijuana, Massachusetts is overhauling its approach to cannabis cafes. State House News Service reports that the Cannabis Control Commission’s new path forward aims to open bar-like social consumption sites statewide “a little quicker” than the old plan.
Boston’s redistricting do-over drama could soon have real citywide impacts. Wu told Radio Boston yesterday that the city will “probably” have to give up in-person early voting in this September’s preliminary City Council elections if a new map isn’t approved by next week. (Mail-in voting would still be available, as required by state law.)
Speaking of elections, residents in 22 communities west of Worcester will soon have to pick a new state senator. That’s because Gov. Maura Healey appointed longtime state Sen. Anne Gobi yesterday as the administration’s new director of rural affairs. The Spencer Democrat’s first day in the newly created position is June 5.
P.S.— It wasn’t just speed humps and redistricting yesterday on Radio Boston. You can listen to Wu’s full, wide-ranging interview — which also touched on housing, Pride in Boston and calls for City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo to resign — on our website or the WBUR app.
Parking Block Nik DeCosta-Klipa Newsletter Editor Nik DeCosta-Klipa is the newsletter editor for WBUR.