A Bluebikes station is coming to a street near you, Mayor Michelle Wu says.

The mayor announced a new citywide plan to install 100 new Bluebikes stations across every neighborhood in Boston on Monday. The planned expansion will meet rising demand and increase reliability of the bike share system, the city’s Streets Cabinet said in a statement.

The city will execute the plan in phases, the statement said. The first phase, planned for this fall, will add stations in Beacon Hill, Chinatown, Downtown, North End, South End, Wharf District, and the West End. The second phase involves installing bike share stations in Charlestown, East Boston, South Boston, and the Seaport.

“Investing in our regional bike share program is a key component to Boston reaching its transportation goals,” said Jascha Franklin-Hodge, Chief of Streets for the City of Boston. “We are focused on improving the reliability of Bluebikes and ensuring residents have easy access to bike share in every neighborhood.”

Bluebikes announced they would offer free rides to commuters during the Red Line shutdown last month. The BlueBike initiative originally launched in 2011 with just 600 bikes. Now, the city says there are 450 stations and 4,000 bikes across Greater Boston. 

“Traffic might be the biggest headache that you have to deal with every single day,” Boston Mayor Michelle Wu told reporters last Thursday, touting Google’s technological promise to target small traffic hotspots. “We know that even small tweaks can go a long way.”

Project Green Light uses AI and Google Maps’ driving trends to model traffic patterns and also make signal timing recommendations for city traffic engineers to implement, according to the company’s website. For the past five months, the Google team has been analyzing traffic at hundreds of intersections around Boston and providing suggestions for optimizing traffic signals and patterns to minimize time stopped unnecessarily at red lights.

While transportation planners warn that Google’s technology is not a panacea, the technology offers the promise to quickly, albeit often modestly, reduce preventable traffic snarls.

Since the partnership began, Boston has already implemented Google’s suggestions by changing signal timing at intersections in Fenway-Kenmore, Mission Hill, and Jamaica Plain. Once the changes are made, such as keeping a light green in one direction for longer, the Green Light team then analyzes the resulting impact on traffic and provides the city with that data.

Intersections where changes have been made have quickly seen improvements.

At Huntington Ave. & Opera Place and at Amory Street & Green Street, “stop-and-go traffic has been reduced by over 50 percent,” according to the city. Wu touted the statistics as well, saying that the use of the technology to combat congestion “is one piece of something that we know to be a bigger part of the solution.”

In some cases, she added, that solution can be quite simple. “Sometimes it’s just a matter of how long a particular light stays green going one direction in the intersection versus the cross street,” Wu said.

Worldwide, 13 other cities on four continents are using it, including Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, Manchester in England, and Hamburg in Germany. Google is not currently charging its partner cities to use Green Light, and the program does not require cities to purchase hardware.

Early numbers from Google’s analysis of traffic patterns before and after recommended changes were made to traffic signals during tests conducted in 2022 and 2023 indicate a “potential for up to 30 percent reduction in stops,” according to the company. Google says cities using the technology have also seen, on average, a 10 percent reduction in tailpipe emissions at intersections.

While the city’s transportation department continuously monitors traffic with cameras at intersections, enabling it to respond when traffic snags arise, Wu said manual adjustments can’t fully address the big-picture problem.

“In order for us to really think about traffic and fixing it across the entire city, we can’t just go like by light by light and do it,” she said. With the data from Google, “we can then go in and really have a tailored approach … in a much more effective way.”

The technology can be “incredibly effective,” said Stacy Thompson, the executive director of LivableStreets Alliance, a transit advocacy group based in Cambridge.

At intersections where traffic patterns are changing throughout the day, the traffic lights can be taught “how to respond in more real-time,” she said. Or, she added, the technology can help often backed-up intersections cycle traffic through faster.

But it is not a “one-size-fits-all solution” for tackling congestion, Thompson stressed. Problems arise when the technology only focuses on cars, and intersections in the city need to “work for everyone,” including bikers and pedestrians, she said.

“I would actually love to see an expansion of this program that includes things like queue jumps [when a bus gets priority at an intersection] … things that really are also monitoring pedestrian flow,” Thompson said. “And, of course, optimization for the increasing number of bike lanes and bike signals.”

“All need to fit under this smart signals technology,” said Thompson, who added that the city should be transparent about where and how it is using the technology.

Ultimately, these are the goals, said Michael Lawrence Evans, Boston’s director of emerging technology. But some of that technology does not yet exist, and true adaptive signaling is expensive and requires a lot of hardware and maintenance.

“A platform like Green Light was a pretty low barrier way for us to try more frequent signal timing changes based on fresh data,” he said.

Having that new data “to validate the impact of the interventions is really helpful,” said Santi Garces, Boston’s chief innovation officer, but such tools are “not substitutes for this comprehensive policy approach to building better roads.”

Wu also acknowledged that the AI-powered experiment will not solve Boston’s traffic issues.

Her administration has prioritized making buses more reliable, reducing congestion by ramping up enforcement of double parking, and improving street safety and access, such as by expanding the city’s bike lane network. Artificial intelligence is one more part of the arsenal. The big-picture focus is “on trying to make sure that this is as convenient as possible to get around,” Wu said.

Shannon Larson can be reached at shannon.larson@globe.com. Follow her @shannonlarson98.

FOXBORO — Patriots cornerback Marco Wilson came to training camp as an afterthought in a crowded secondary but has emerged as a potential surprise starter three weeks in.

So, in his own words, what could Wilson bring to the Patriots’ defense?

“Someone that’s more athletic than anybody that’s going to be on that field, and someone whose attention to detail is very high,” Wilson said. “I feel like that’s something that I pride myself in. I’m not someone who’s going to be having mental mistakes and things like that. I’m pretty locked in on the details when I’m out there, and that makes the big difference of playing such a hard position.”

Wilson ran a blazing 4.35-second 40-yard dash at his pro day in 2021 with a 43-inch vertical leap, 11-feet, 4-inch broad jump, 4.09-second short shuttle, 6.80-second 3-cone drill and 26 bench press reps of 225 pounds. He scored a 9.99 out of 10 relative athletic score.

Extra points

Patriots defensive line coach Jerry Montgomery said the competition at his position will be settled on the practice field and in the preseason. “What you put on that film doesn’t lie. So, whether you like it or not, we’re going to find the most consistent player who can help us.” … With Christian Barmore currently out with blood clots, Davon Godchaux and Daniel Ekuale are two locks for interior defensive line spots. That leaves Jeremiah Pharms, Armon Watts, Mike Purcell, Trysten Hill, Sam Roberts and Josiah Bronson likely competing for three spots … Montgomery recruited and coached Purcell at Wyoming. He said he’s currently “whooping him into shape … Hill still has untapped potential, according to Montgomery. “I think he’s got a lot more upside as a rusher.” … Pharms excelled in Thursday’s preseason opener with a sack and five total hurries. “He did what he was supposed to do. When he got 1-on-1 blocks, he got off of them and made plays.”