The BPDA: Paved and Confused

Snarled traffic. Sky-high rents. And entire neighborhoods that soon may be underwater. Our city planners have steamrolled over communities and failed to build a city that is livable for us all. Is there still a chance to get it right?

By Rachel Slade· 4/10/2020, 3:32 p.m.

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Whether or not cash is changing hands, Bostonians should be outraged at how the BPDA functions—or doesn’t. If you think, for instance, that Boston is unaffordable, mired in traffic, and chronically unprepared for climate change, you can mostly blame the BPDA