Some ideas get better with time.

Mayor Michelle Wu’s plan to rehab Franklin Park’s White Stadium to house a pro soccer team isn’t one of them.

In an August editorial, we noted that the City (as in taxpayers) would foot $50 million of the bill, and another $50 million would come from Boston Unity Soccer Partners.

A lot has happened since August.

For one, Boston’s share of the cost has soared to $91 million. That doesn’t faze Wu, who told GBH’s Boston Public Radio “We are going to pay for our half of the stadium, no matter what it costs.”

By we, she means you, the taxpayers.

Wu’s bid to hike commercial property tax rates beyond the state limit for three years died in the Senate while Wu stood her ground on not making cuts to the city budget. Plans continue for the installation of bike lanes throughout Boston. Wu has spent millions on this project since taking office in 2021 and is planning to spend millions more in the future.

As with the plan for White Stadium, the bike lanes have hit a speed bump in winning over those who live and work in affected neighborhoods.

The Back Bay Association and the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay expressed concerns, including traffic congestion impacting businesses and accessibility issues for emergency vehicles. But, as Martyn Roetter, chair of the latter noted, those concerns have fallen on deaf ears at city hall.

While prior administrations he’s dealt with were open to changing their plans based on community feedback, Roetter said, “our concern is that doesn’t seem to be the attitude of this administration.”

Roetter has a lot in common with Renee Stacey Welch, a Jamaica Plain activist and a plaintiff in a lawsuit trying to stop the White Stadium project. Welch noted “it doesn’t take $50 million or more to rehab that park for us, for our kids, for our community. We do not need a beer garden. We do not need luxury boxes that I can’t afford. This isn’t for us, and it sure as hell is not for our kids.”

Welch is not alone in opposing the project, yet it continues, and costs are mounting.

Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn wants to tap the brakes. Emphasizing the need for “fiscal responsibility” Monday, he called for Wu to kill the White Stadium plan.

He noted that many neighbors stated they were not taken seriously on quality-of-life issues like traffic and congestion, available parking, trash removal and public safety, and pointed out that a new stadium planned for Everett and the New England Revolution could be shared.

Wu is big on the White Stadium project, and she’s willing to spend big, as long as it’s taxpayer money. But the value-added for constituents in the stadium neighborhood is dubious.

We’ve noted the heavy-handedness of Maura Healey’s administration “selecting” certain communities as sites for emergency shelter space for the migrants and the homeless. Those communities had no say in the matter, they just had to deal with the fallout.

The Franklin Park neighborhood has been “selected” to host a revamped White Stadium and the women’s soccer games played within. Affected neighbors are being asked to deal with the fallout.

It’s unlikely they, nor the businesses in the Back Bay impacted by bike lanes, nor those who faced a massive spike in commercial property taxes, are likely to forget once Wu hits the re-election campaign trail next year.

Editorial cartoon by Steve Kelley. (Creators Syndicate)