The departure of City Manager Louis A. DePasquale is less than two months away, and he has begun to kick things down the road to his unknown replacement.

Porter Square trolley wires restricting street design will be gone in July, Mayor Sumbul Siddiqui told city councillors Monday, citing a letter received from the MBTA. It means skipping an interim step of replacing metered parking with short-term loading zones, providing less confusion to drivers and more certainty to businesses.

Public meetings this week look at $22 million in direct-aid for lower-income families, the city’s budget for the next fiscal year, a moratorium on construction of labs and offices around Alewife, a Fresh Pond beer garden, bike lanes on Brattle Street, municipal broadband and ideas for improving The Port and the future of Cambridge Street.

The “Greater Boston” audio drama podcast has built up a big audience over three seasons, helping it crowdfund its way from new professional necessities into stretch goals.

Ashley Monturio was acquitted Tuesday of leaving the scene after running over and killing an 80-year-old woman in the parking lot of a Cambridgeport public housing project. Cambridge District Court Judge David Frank said the prosecution hadn’t proven conclusively that Monturio knew she had hit Romelia Gallardo.

An attempt to delay the “quick build” of bike lanes through Porter Square by up to four years failed Monday. The majority of city councillors pointed to the lives that could be saved with safer cycling infrastructure, while councillors who brought forward the order said that parking spaces replaced by bike lanes meant the death of businesses.

Public meetings this week look at pausing Porter Square bicycle lanes for removal of a concrete median and overhead trolley wires, removing “hostile architecture,” jobs for a Cambridge Green New Deal, a school sexual misconduct policy and zoning face-off over the North Charles drug therapy clinic.

Lawyers for Ashley Monturio, who is on trial for allegedly leaving the scene after running over an 80-year-old woman in a Cambridgeport parking lot, created their own video to counter the prosecution’s surveillance recording of the 2018 death.

Orders that could change life significantly for Cambridge’s lower-income residents were approved Monday by city councillors, including a call to put some of the $65 million in federal Covid aid the city is getting into a guaranteed-income program and one that would give all high school students free CharlieCards for bus and subway rides.

Converting the needed portion of drivers from gas to electric within less than eight years is unlikely to happen unless more people are willing to think outside the box – the metal boxes called cars – and to another “e-” option with great potential to reduce emissions, congestion and traffic deaths: the e-bike.