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Split vote on Garden Street despite strong public input
Cambridge Council voted 5-4 on April 27 to keep Garden Street one-way with bike lanes. Over 60 speakers mostly backed the current setup for safety and to avoid $250k reversal cost. Flaherty, Nolan, Simmons, Zusy dissented. https://meetingwatch.org/ma/cambridge/city-council/2026-04-27/ #MeetingWatch #CambridgeMA
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Process and next steps on contentious traffic decision
April 27 meeting: Council rejected tabling or referring Garden Street redesign to committee (motions failed 4-5 and 3-6). Policy order passed 5-4. City Manager must report traffic data by Oct 26 before any changes. https://meetingwatch.org/ma/cambridge/city-council/2026-04-27/ #MeetingWatch #CambridgeMA
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Board divisions revealed by single split vote
All other April 27 votes were unanimous, including budget referrals and zoning petitions. Only Garden Street produced division, with majority siding against additional study requests from the minority. https://meetingwatch.org/ma/cambridge/city-council/2026-04-27/ #MeetingWatch #CambridgeMA
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Cambridge Council voted 5-4 April 27 to keep Garden Street one-way with protected bike lanes. 60+ public commenters largely supported it citing safety data, lower side-street traffic in studies, and avoiding $250k reversal. Side streets get calming... #MeetingWatch #CambridgeMA
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Dissenters Flaherty, Nolan, Simmons, Zusy pushed to table the order, refer to committee, or require more traffic counts first. Those motions failed. Majority (Al-Zubi, Azeem, McGovern, Sobrinho-Wheeler, Siddiqui) approved the order as-is.
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Council ordered City Manager written update with analysis and recommendations by Oct 26. No further Garden Street changes until then. All other meeting items passed 9-0. https://meetingwatch.org/ma/cambridge/city-council/2026-04-27/
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At the April 27 Cambridge City Council meeting, a 5-4 vote decided to maintain Garden Street's current one-way configuration with protected bike lanes. More than 60 residents spoke, with the large majority citing city traffic studies showing safety gains for cyclists and pedestrians, reduced cut-through traffic on nearby streets, and the $250,000 cost to revert the street. A minority of speakers wanted two-way traffic restored to ease pressure on Raymond and Sherman streets. Councilors Flaherty, Nolan, Simmons, and Zusy voted against the policy order and supported motions to table it or send it to the Transportation Committee for more review; those efforts failed. The 5-4 majority passed the order and set an October 26 deadline for the City Manager to deliver updated traffic counts, accident data, and recommendations. Traffic calming measures on side streets are scheduled for this summer. The rest of the meeting's votes, including budget referrals and zoning items, were unanimous. https://meetingwatch.org/ma/cambridge/city-council/2026-04-27/ #MeetingWatch #CambridgeMA