City Manager and appropriate staff move forward with Option 4 to reopen Garden street to two way traffic while maintaining separated bike lanes

How it started

Mar 31, 2025 · Proposed by Councillor Paul F. Toner: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

Mar 31, 2025 · Held by charter right one member's right to pause; the item returns at the next meeting

Apr 7, 2025 · Amendment failed Moved by Councillor Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler; failed 4–5.

by substitution Policy Order 2025 #47

The clerk's words, from the minutes of Apr 7, 2025.

View the roll call on the amendment

Voted yes (4)

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

Voted no (5)

Patty Nolan
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons

Apr 7, 2025 · ✅ Order adopted, 5–4. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

View the roll call

Voted yes (5)

Patty Nolan
Paul F. Toner
Ayesha M. Wilson
Cathie Zusy
E. Denise Simmons

Voted no (4)

Burhan Azeem
Marc McGovern
Sumbul Siddiqui
Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler

Roll call of Apr 7, 2025 · from the council’s minutes · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

🏛 This item on the city's site

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: Mar 31, 2025

Public Comment (3)

3 written comments received (2025-04-14). Letter-writers are named in the city's own agenda and are not republished here, by policy.