Marc Levy A car nears a pothole on Highland Avenue in Somerville in November 2023.

Public trust in local government is eroded as a result of inaction on redesigning Highland Avenue , a Somerville city councilor said Thursday at the first council meeting after a summer break.

“Years and years of misleading” by the Mayor’s Office have led to growing frustration, councilor Ben Ewen-Campen said. He was the lead sponsor of a resolution that passed unanimously, with seven co-sponsors, asking the mayor to explain delays on repaving a road of potholes and cracked asphalt that stretches 1.7 miles from Davis Square nearly to East Somerville – one a critic online has quipped “ qualifies as off-road. Just dirt would be better.”

Information on a city project website has not been updated in

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