Board Awards $3.18M Harvard Street Contract

Select Board · Meeting of April 14, 2026

Brookline's Select Board approved a $3.18 million contract to repave Harvard Street over objections from cyclists seeking protected bike lanes. The board voted 4-0 with one abstention from David Pearlman, after Commissioner of Public Works Erin Chute called the project "timely, necessary, and responsible." David Krupp, president of Biking Brookline, said advocates "felt we had no choice because the town would not talk to us." The board added a condition requiring staff to draft restrictions on new traffic-detection cameras before the system is turned on. Milling is tentatively set for the week of May 17.

Separately, the board voted 4-0, with one abstention from Paul Warren, to recommend favorable action on Warrant Article 17, an immigration-enforcement bylaw, and voted 4-0, with one abstention from Bernard Greene, to take no action on Warrant Article 25, regarding withdrawal from a regional intelligence-sharing network.

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Source: the Select Board meeting of April 14, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript. It was corrected where it differed.