“We knew there were dangers. We had a plan to make it safer. It is blatantly irresponsible for the city to make a deliberate decision to not follow through.”

Instead of fixing our streets, her administration’s instinct is to procrastinate and hold more meetings.

A new supplemental budget law will give the MBTA an extra $60 million to pay for previously-unfunded capital projects, with a $1 million earmark for the agency to prepare a detailed implementation plan for its “regional rail” initiative.

Two separate homicide crashes in the South Coast town of Dartmouth have left three people dead on a highway with extensively documented safety problems.