This change set is incorrect and should be reverted.

Route 99 should also be reclassified between Everett and Charlestown and over the Russel Bridge, as well. then

That makes no sense - US3 and 2A are largely 2-lane primary arterials.

The other mappers are incorrect "Scope of this tag may overlap with highway=footway, which is generally used for narrower, often unnamed, pedestrian pathways and sidewalks."

There's nothing about the function of this that looks and acts like a "pedestrianized" street. It is a set of named footways.

This is a narrow, named pathway. And until your changes now how this set of privately-owned public ways have been tagged.

Sorry, my comment should've said *This is registered but not city owned) "public way". Private "public way" signage is placed to give people information but not designating it as a proper street.

Again, looking at the functionality, which is what should be mapped - this is a (named!) footway.

Functionally, Boardman place isn't wide enough to be a "pedestrianized street" - which is what the pedestrianized tag is supposed to represent. Note the last sentence in the opening pargraphs of the pedestrianised street wiki page. highway=pedestrian

The City's GIS represents all registered (but city-owned) public ways. That is, there is some amount of legal access. Regardless, ownership doesn't imply what to do with the highway tag. The function of the public way, in this case is much more a footway than a pedestrianised street.