The street lines saga that seemed to salt old wounds last summer will not get a sequel. Mayor Marc Laredo announced on Thursday night that he and DPW Commissioner Shawna Sullivan and Transportation Director Ned Codd “found a path forward” in the curious conundrum that pitted interpretation of state law against a 90-year tradition.
Last June, Mayor Ruthanne Fuller had the DPW remove the red, white and green lines—painted with City Hall permission onto Adams Street in Nonantum every year since 1935 in the lead-up to the St. Mary of Carmen Society’s Italian-American Festival—and that didn’t go over well with Nonantum residents, for whom a beef with Mayor Fuller was nothing new.
