With a strong transportation record and a visionary plan for streets that prioritizes walking, biking, and transit, Boston's Michelle Wu (wutrain) is set to become the first bona fide U.S. climate mayor
Photo: Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald Last night, Michelle Wu was elected mayor of Boston, marking an array of firsts. She’s the first person of color and the first woman to be elected to run one of the country’s oldest cities. She’s also a millennial who has nudged the city towards social reforms like rent control.
As a city councillor since 2014, Wu has become well known for transit advocacy — her Twitter handle is @WuTrain — and she’s coming into office with her own Green New Deal, a climate-justice agenda that’s backed by the original Green New Deal’s co-author, Massachusetts senator Ed Markey.
Wu actually uses public transit herself, too — for years, she navigated the system with her kids in a double stroller loaded with stuffed animals and snacks — and has challenged her fellow councillors to do the same, arguing that they need to experience what they’re funding.
At the center of her climate mandate is “Free the T,” a plan to make no-fare transit the centerpiece of a more accessible city. She’s already brought about two successful real-world examples of how this might work: a center-running dedicated bus lane to draw people away from their cars and a pilot project making congested routes free as a way to provide economic relief to transit-dependent Bostonians.
Right now, dozens of chief executives from the official Climate Mayor collective are meeting at C40, an international city-focused climate conference taking place in Glasgow as part of the UN’s COP 26 summit. Watching the presentations, it’s painfully clear that the Americans are lagging far behind their counterparts on every other continent. Many cities, including New York, have co-opted the “Green New Deal” terminology as a way to frame their own climate initiatives.
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