Planning, Development and Transportation on October 22, 2026

1:20 O

1:21 THE COMMITTEE EMAIL AT CCS.

1:22 OH SORRY I JUST SAW THAT PUBLIC

1:24 TESTIMONY WILL BE TAKEN AT THE

1:25 END OF THIS HEARING.

1:26 INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED ON

1:27 IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY'VE

1:28 SIGNED UP AND WILL HAVE TWO

1:30 MINUTES TO TESTIFY.

1:30 I SEE WE HAVE OUR FIRST PAGE

1:32 FILLED UP.

1:33 IF YOU'D LIKE TO, UM, TESTIFY

1:35 PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU SIGN IN.

1:37 UM, SO EACH UM EVERYONE'S GOING

1:40 TO GET TWO MINUTES TO TESTIFY.

1:41 IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN

1:42 TESTIFYING IN PERSON, PLEASE

1:43 ADD YOUR NAME TO SIGN IN SHEET.

1:45 UM, AND I JUST LIKE TO

1:46 CONGRATULATE, UM, SHANE PACK ON

1:48 HIS SHATTUCK AWARD LAST NIGHT.

1:50 UM, WE'RE INCREDIBLY PROUD

1:52 OF SHANE.

1:52 UH, THE CITY COUNCIL.

1:53 HE'S DONE SUCH GREAT WORK AND

1:55 HE HAS BEEN OUR SHEPHERD

1:56 THROUGH ALL OUR PLANNING,

1:57 DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

1:58 MEETINGS SINCE I'VE BEEN THE

1:59 CHAIR.

1:59 UM, AND SO EMAIL HIM IF YOU'D

2:02 LIKE TO TESTIFY VIRTUALLY.

2:03 UH, SHANE PACK AT BOSTON.COM

2:06 FOR THE LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL

2:07 BE ADDED TO THE LIST.

2:08 TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

2:11 1543 ORDER FOR HEARING ON

2:12 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT OF BLOCKED

2:13 BIKE LANES AND CROSSWALKS.

2:15 THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

2:16 ME CITY COUNCILOR SHARON DURKAN

2:18 AND WAS REFERRED TO THE

2:19 COMMITTEE ON AUGUST 5TH 2026.

2:21 UM TODAY WE WERE JOINED BY MY

2:23 COLLEAGUES IN ORDER OF ARRIVAL

2:24 COUNCILOR MURPHY,

2:26 COUNCILOR FLYNN,

2:26 COUNCILOR BREADON UM.

2:31 SINCE UM I'M THE LEAD SPONSOR

2:33 AND THE UM SPONSOR OF THIS

2:35 DOCKET, I'M GOING TO READ AN

2:36 OPENING STATEMENT AND THEN WE

2:37 WILL UH WE WILL HEAD TO UM,

2:40 INTRODUCTIONS FROM THE PANEL.

2:42 GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE.

2:43 THANK YOU, CHIEF OSGOOD AND

2:45 DEPUTY CHIEF GOAD FOR BEING

2:46 HERE TODAY.

2:47 UM, ME, UH, JOHN ROMANO ALL YOU

2:49 KNOW, ALL EVERYONE WHO'S DOING

2:50 THE GREAT WORK AT UM.

2:52 UM.

2:52 THANK YOU.

2:53 UH, TO THE RESIDENTS, THE

2:54 ADVOCATES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS

2:55 WHO TOOK TIME OUT OF YOUR DAY

2:56 TO BE HERE.

2:57 WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU

2:58 BECAUSE YOU'RE ON OUR STREETS

2:59 EVERY DAY AND YOUR EXPERIENCES

3:01 ARE WHAT WE'RE HERE TO TALK

3:02 ABOUT.

3:02 THIS ISSUE IS FUNDAMENTALLY

3:03 ABOUT SAFETY FOR OUR RESIDENTS

3:05 AND IT IMPACTS OUR LIVES EVERY

3:07 DAY A BLOCKED BIKE LANE OR

3:09 CROSSWALK FORCES PEOPLE INTO

3:10 BIKING OR WALKING INTO THE

3:12 STREET AND INTO TRAFFIC AND

3:13 INCREASES THE RISK THAT THEY

3:14 MIGHT GET INTO A CRASH.

3:16 I HEAR FROM MANY RESIDENTS

3:17 EVERY DAY ABOUT THIS ISSUE IN

3:18 DISTRICT EIGHT, WHICH IS HOME

3:20 TO MANY HIGH TRAFFIC COMMERCIAL

3:22 CORRIDORS AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS

3:23 WITH BIKE CORRIDORS AND PUBLIC

3:25 TRANSIT.

3:26 I REPRESENT MANY CONSTITUENTS

3:27 WHO DON'T OWN CARS AND I DON'T

3:29 EITHER SO I SHARE THAT

3:30 EXPERIENCE.

3:31 UM AND BY FOOT IS THE PRIMARY

3:33 WAY THAT THEY GET ALONG, GET

3:35 AROUND AND UM I YOU KNOW, ENDED

3:37 UP IN A HERALD ARTICLE SAYING

3:39 PEDESTRIAN IS KING.

3:40 I ABSOLUTELY BELIEVE THAT IF WE

3:42 CAN'T MAKE IT SAFE FOR

3:43 PEDESTRIANS UM, AS A CITY UM,

3:45 YOU KNOW, THAT'S THAT'S OUR

3:47 GOAL AND VISION ZERO SHOULD BE

3:49 OUR GOAL AND WE HAVE TO MOVE

3:51 QUICKLY AND URGENTLY TOWARDS

3:53 THAT.

3:53 UM, AN ANALYST OF THAT BLOCKED

3:56 BIKE LANE REPORTS REVEALED THAT

3:57 MORE THAN HALF OF ALL REPORTS

3:59 OCCURRED ALONG NINE MAIN

4:00 CORRIDORS.

4:01 TWO OF THE TOP THREE ARE IN

4:03 DISTRICT EIGHT KENMORE SQUARE

4:03 AND THE LONGWOOD AND FENWAY

4:05 AREA.

4:05 SEEING DRIVERS PULL UP INTO

4:07 CROSSWALKS IS A REGULAR

4:08 OCCURRENCE EVEN THOUGH IT'S

4:10 ILLEGAL UNDER STATE LAW.

4:11 LACK OF CONSISTENT ENFORCEMENT

4:13 PERPETUATES A CULTURE IN WHICH

4:14 DRIVERS DON'T FEEL ACCOUNTABLE

4:16 FOR FOLLOWING THE RULES OF THE

4:17 ROAD.

4:17 CROSSWALKS AND BIKE LANES ARE

4:19 DESIGNATED TO PROTECT

4:20 PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS AND

4:22 WHEN THESE SPACES ARE ROUTINELY

4:23 BLOCKED IT UNDERMINES OUR TRUST

4:25 IN TRANSPORTATION INVESTMENTS

4:26 AND COMPROMISES THE SAFETY

4:28 BENEFITS.

4:28 THIS STRUCTURE IS MEANT TO

4:30 PROVIDE ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS

4:31 AND EVERYONE WHETHER YOU'RE

4:33 FROM CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE OR

4:35 ELSEWHERE TRAVELING INTO OUR

4:36 CITY YOU'RE A TOURIST.

4:37 YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO WALK,

4:39 BIKE OR TRAVEL THROUGH OUR CITY

4:41 WITHOUT A CAR AND FEEL SAFE

4:42 DOING SO.

4:44 I OFTEN HEAR UM CITY OF BOSTON

4:47 OFFICIALS AND NOT NONE THAT I'M

4:49 LOOKING AT BUT I OFTEN HEAR

4:51 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT YOU KNOW, OH

4:53 WELL THAT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT IS

4:54 MEANT FOR PEOPLE COMING FROM A

4:56 DIFFERENT CITY.

4:57 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SORT

4:58 OF AT THE CENTER OF WHERE

5:01 PEOPLE ARE TRAVELING TO.

5:02 WE ARE THE BIGGEST CITY IN THE

5:03 COMMONWEALTH.

5:04 SO ANYONE WHO'S COMING TO OUR

5:06 CITY AND FEELS ON SAFE HERE

5:08 THAT MATTERS DEEPLY TO ME.

5:09 ANYONE WHO SPENDS TIME IN MY

5:11 DISTRICT MATTERS DEEPLY TO ME.

5:12 UM, AND OBVIOUSLY UH, WE

5:15 PRIORITIZE RESIDENTS WHO FEEL

5:16 UNSAFE IN CROSSWALKS BUT, UM,

5:18 THAT SAFETY SHOULD APPLY TO

5:19 EVERYONE WHO TRAVERSES OUR CITY

5:21 RIGHT NOW.

5:22 RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO

5:23 REPORT BLOCK BIKE LANES AND

5:25 CROSSWALKS THROUGH A THREE ON

5:26 ONE, WHICH IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE

5:27 THAT DATA HELPS US IDENTIFY

5:29 WHERE THE ISSUES ARE MOST

5:30 PREVALENT AND WHETHER THE

5:31 TARGETED ENFORCEMENT ARE STREET

5:32 DESIGN OR YOU KNOW, WHERE WE

5:34 SHOULD TARGET ENFORCEMENT OR

5:36 STREET DESIGN OR AND

5:38 INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS.

5:38 BUT DRIVERS ONLY STOP AND BIKE

5:40 LANES OR CROSSWALKS TEMPORARILY

5:41 MAKING THESE VIOLATION

5:43 VIOLATIONS DIFFICULT TO REPORT

5:44 AND ENFORCE.

5:45 SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO

5:46 DISCUSSING WHAT MORE WE CAN DO

5:48 TO HOLD DRIVERS ACCOUNTABLE.

5:49 THIS INCLUDES EXPLORING

5:51 TARGETED ENFORCEMENT, PUBLIC

5:52 AWARENESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY

5:54 PROGRAMS.

5:54 BUT IT ALSO BEGS THE QUESTION

5:56 OF WHETHER WE SHOULD BE

5:57 LOBBYING THE STATE HOUSE FOR

5:59 MORE POWER TO DO THIS.

6:01 UM, IN IN A WAY THAT WOULD, UH,

6:03 BE MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE

6:05 .

6:05 UM AND I HOPE THAT SOME

6:07 OF THOSE TAKEAWAYS ARE COMING

6:08 OUT OF OUR CONVERSATION.

6:10 UM, AND I JUST WANT TO THANK

6:11 THE ADMINISTRATION FOR BEING

6:13 HERE.

6:13 THEY DO HAVE A TIME CONSTRAINT

6:14 AND HAVE TO LEAVE AT 330.

6:16 UM, SO I WANT TO GET INTO THE

6:18 CONVERSATION AS QUICKLY AS

6:20 POSSIBLE.

6:21 UM, SO I UM AND BECAUSE I'M THE

6:23 ONLY SPONSOR OF THIS DOCKET UM,

6:25 I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND LET

6:27 THEM UM UH, START WITH THEIR

6:29 PRESENTATION.

6:30 UM, AND THEN IF YOU HAVE ANY

6:31 OPENING STATEMENTS OR QUESTIONS

6:32 WE'LL JUST COMBINE THOSE AS WE

6:34 GET STARTED.

6:35 UM, SO WE ARE JOINED ALSO BY UM

6:37 CITY COUNCILOR RICKY LOUIJEUNE.

6:39 UM, SO UH, GRATEFUL TO MY

6:41 COLLEAGUES FOR SHOWING UP FOR

6:42 THIS HEARING.

6:42 UM, AND I'LL LET THAT

6:44 ADMINISTRATION INTRODUCE

6:45 THEMSELVES BUT ME UH, JOHN,

6:47 CHRIS AND NICK, THANK YOU FOR

6:49 ALL OF YOUR LEADERSHIP.

6:49 UM, LET'S GET INTO WHAT YOU

6:51 GUYS ARE WORKING ON.

6:53 I HAVE SEEN AN INCREASED

6:54 ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM THAT'S

6:56 TAKING PLACE.

6:57 UM, AND I, I THINK THAT WE NEED

7:00 TO CONTINUE TO PUSH ON THIS AND

7:02 I KNOW OUR ADVOCATES THAT ARE

7:03 TESTIFYING HAVE IDEAS ON HOW TO

7:06 DO JUST THAT.

7:06 UM, SO I'LL LET YOU GET INTO

7:08 YOUR PRESENTATION.

7:09 WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SELECTED

7:11 TESTIMONY, UM, FROM FOLKS.

7:13 UM, SO WE ARE GOING TO PEPPER

7:14 THOSE AND ONCE YOU'RE DONE WITH

7:16 YOUR PRESENTATION.

7:17 UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN, THANK YOU

7:18 SO MUCH.

7:19 COUNCILORS.

7:19 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UH FOR

7:21 YOUR LEADERSHIP AND FOR YOUR

7:22 PARTNERSHIP ON THIS AND THANKS

7:24 TO ALL THE WHO ARE HERE, UM,

7:25 WHO ARE EMPHASIZING THE

7:26 IMPORTANCE OF UH, ENFORCEMENT,

7:29 UH, COUNCILOR TO YOUR POINT

7:30 FUNDAMENTALLY FROM A

7:31 PERSPECTIVE OF SAFETY, UM, THAT

7:32 WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM,

7:34 WE ARE ELIMINATING FATALITIES

7:35 FROM OUR ROADWAYS, UH, AS WELL

7:37 AS IN SERIOUS CRASHES.

7:38 UM, I'M GOING TO VERY BRIEFLY

7:40 GO THROUGH A SET OF SLIDES AND

7:42 SORT OF OUTLINE OUR WORK AROUND

7:43 ENFORCEMENT AND ALSO UH, THE

7:44 COMPANION WORK AROUND CURB

7:45 MANAGEMENT.

7:46 AS YOU NOTED, I'M JOINED BY UH

7:48 DEPUTY CHIEF GOVE OVERSEES ALL

7:49 THE OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

7:50 WORK UH, FOR OUR STREETS

7:51 CABINET.

7:52 UM JOHN ROMANO, WHO OVERSEES

7:53 OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT TEAM IS

7:55 OUR DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AND

7:56 MIA CAPONE, UH, WHO IS OUR

7:57 DIRECTOR OF PARKING AND CURB

7:58 MANAGEMENT OVERSEEING THE

7:59 PARKING CLERK'S OFFICE.

8:01 UM, SO SAFETY IS SORT OF THE

8:03 FUNDAMENTAL UH, BEDROCK

8:05 COMPONENT OF OF THE WORK WE ARE

8:06 DOING.

8:07 UM, AND IT IS UH CORE TO SORT

8:09 OF THE WAY IN WHICH WE ARE

8:10 THINKING ABOUT THE TOOLS THAT

8:11 WE HAVE AND IT IS A

8:12 RESPONSIBILITY WHICH IS UM,

8:14 BOTH WITH THE TRANSPORTATION

8:15 DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS OUR

8:17 PARTNERS, THE BOSTON POLICE

8:18 DEPARTMENT.

8:19 UM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS

8:21 AUTHORITY OVER MOVING

8:22 VIOLATIONS AS WELL AS PARKING

8:23 VIOLATIONS.

8:24 UM, THIS TEAM THE

8:25 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT UM,

8:26 HAS A FOCUS SPECIFICALLY ON UM

8:29 UH ON THE PARKING VIOLATIONS.

8:30 UM, WE HAVE A NUMBER

8:31 OF DIFFERENT TOOLS THAT WE CAN

8:32 USE.

8:32 THERE WAS THIS THIS

8:33 CONVERSATION IS LARGELY ABOUT

8:34 ENFORCEMENT AND CURB MANAGEMENT

8:35 .

8:36 UM, BUT ENGINEERING THE

8:37 PHYSICAL CHANGES THAT WE MAKE

8:38 TO THE STREET AND VERY MUCH DO

8:40 YOUR OPENING TASK, YOUR OPENING

8:41 REMARKS.

8:41 UH, COUNSELOR, UM, OUR EFFORTS

8:42 AROUND MUCH TO ENCOURAGE MORE

8:44 FOLKS TO WALK, BIKE OR TAKE

8:46 TRANSIT IS ANOTHER WAY THAT WE

8:47 CAN RELIEVE PRESSURE ON OUR

8:48 ROADWAYS AND REDUCE THE OVERALL

8:50 LIKELIHOOD, UM, OF SOME OF THE

8:52 ,UH, PARKING DEMAND AND

8:53 PARKING INFRACTIONS THAT WE SEE

8:54 .

8:55 UM, BUT AGAIN, THIS FOCUS IS

8:56 LARGELY NOT ON THE ENGINEERING

8:57 OR MOTOR PIECES BUT ON THE

8:58 ENFORCEMENT UH, AND MANAGEMENT

9:01 UH COMPONENTS.

9:02 UM, JUST TO GIVE UH A SENSE

9:04 OVER THE COURSE OF FISCAL YEAR

9:07 2026, UM, THE BOSTON

9:09 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT

9:10 ISSUED A LITTLE OVER 1.1

9:12 MILLION UH, PARKING TICKETS.

9:14 UM, THAT WAS AGAIN OVER FY 26,

9:15 AS YOU NOTED IN YOUR OPENING

9:17 REMARKS AND WITH GREAT CREDIT

9:18 UM, UH, DEPUTY CHIEF GOVE AS

9:20 WELL AS UH TO JOHN AND REALLY

9:22 TO THE 139 PARKING ENFORCEMENT

9:24 OFFICERS WHO WORK FOR THE

9:25 BOSTON TRANSPORTATION

9:27 DEPARTMENT.

9:27 UH, WE ARE UH, OUTPACING THAT

9:30 AMOUNT THIS YEAR.

9:30 ARE WE?

9:31 WE'RE TRENDING ABOUT 9% HIGHER

9:33 ,UH, IN OUR TICKET ISSUANCE

9:34 OVER THE COURSE OF THIS YEAR.

9:36 UM, REALLY MAKING SURE THAT WE

9:37 ARE ADDRESSING A NUMBER OF THE

9:39 CONCERNS AND REQUESTS THAT COME

9:41 IN ACROSS THE CITY.

9:42 UM, AS EVERYONE KNOWS, UM, THE

9:44 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER

9:46 ROLE IS A DIFFICULT ROLE AS A

9:48 STRESSFUL ROLE UM, AND IS WITH

9:50 GREAT CREDIT TO UH, EACH MEMBER

9:52 OF THE TEAM WHO'S OUT THERE IN

9:53 THE COMMUNITY EVERY SINGLE DAY

9:55 THAT IS UH UH, ADDRESSING SOME

9:58 OF THE CONCERNS AND COMPLAINTS

9:59 THAT WE SEE BOTH UH, ROUTINELY

10:02 AROUND QUALITY OF LIFE AND

10:03 MOBILITY AS WELL AS UM, THE

10:05 ACUTE SAFETY CONCERNS THAT GET

10:06 RAISED, UH, AS YOU NOTED IN

10:09 YOUR OPENING, UH, TESTIMONY,

10:10 UM, THERE IS A COMPONENT OF THE

10:12 WORK WHICH IS DONE UM, BY THE

10:14 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

10:14 THAT IS BASED UPON SHIFTS.

10:16 WE COLLECT A LOT OF DATA

10:17 PRINCIPALLY THROUGH 311 LAST

10:19 YEAR WE RECEIVED A CALENDAR

10:21 YEAR 2025.

10:22 UH, WE RECEIVED A LITTLE OVER

10:24 60,000 THROUGH A ONE REQUEST

10:25 FOR PARKING FOR PARKING

10:27 ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS UNDER

10:28 THE RULE TO JOHN'S TEAM.

10:30 THOSE, UH, VIOLATION REPORTS DO

10:32 ALLOW US TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT

10:35 WE ARE IDENTIFYING HOTSPOTS IN

10:36 OUR CITY FOR ENFORCEMENT

10:37 OFFICERS TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS

10:38 AND THINK THROUGH NOT JUST HOW

10:40 WE MAY ADJUST OUR SHIFTS, UM,

10:42 WHERE WE MAY BE DEPLOYING STAFF

10:43 IN REAL TIME BUT ALSO HOW WE

10:45 MAY BE ADJUSTING OUR CURB RULES

10:47 OVERALL AND GOING FORWARD.

10:49 UM, TO GIVE A SENSE UM, THIS IS

10:51 A QUICK SNAPSHOT OF UH LAST

10:52 MONTH SEPTEMBER 2026 WHERE THE

10:55 TEAM ISSUED OVER 100,000

10:56 PARKING ENFORCEMENT UH TICKETS

10:59 UH OVER THE COURSE OF THE MONTH

11:01 INCLUDING THE ONES THAT YOU

11:01 SEE.

11:02 WHAT'S IT HERE?

11:02 UM, ABOUT 6000 TICKETS UM, FOR

11:05 VIOLATIONS OF, YOU KNOW,

11:06 STOPPING US STANDING ABOUT A

11:08 THOUSAND UM, TICKETS FOR, UH,

11:10 BIKE LANE AND BUS LANE, UH,

11:12 VIOLATIONS, UM, A THOUSAND

11:13 TICKETS FOR ILLEGAL PARKING FOR

11:15 UH, HYDRANTS UM, ABOUT A

11:17 THOUSAND TICKETS FOR DOUBLE

11:18 PARKING, UM AND UH 200 UH,

11:20 CROSSWALK UH VIOLATION TICKETS

11:22 A SNAPSHOT OF WHAT ONE MONTH

11:23 LOOKS LIKE UM, BOTH IN TERMS

11:25 OF LOCATIONS AND IN TERMS

11:26 OF TICKET TYPE UM, SO

11:28 REINFORCING THE AMOUNT OF WORK

11:29 WHICH UH, THE PARKING

11:30 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS ARE DOING

11:31 EVERY SINGLE DAY UH, ACROSS THE

11:34 CITY AND AGAIN INFORMED REALLY

11:35 BY A LOT OF UH REQUESTS FROM

11:37 CONSTITUENTS AND ALSO THE UM

11:39 THE ROUTES THAT HAVE BEEN

11:40 SHAPED OVER TIME, UM, BY THE

11:41 DEPARTMENT.

11:42 I APPRECIATE THAT.

11:43 UM, BASICALLY DISTRICT DATA AND

11:45 DISTRICT TWO ARE LIKE THE YOU

11:46 KNOW, MOST HEAVILY SHADED

11:48 MEANING THAT UM, WHERE WE'RE

11:50 GETTING SOME OF THE MOST

11:51 ENFORCEMENT BECAUSE OF THOSE

11:52 COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS.

11:53 AS YOU KNOW, AS YOU NOTED.

11:54 THE THE UH SOME OF THOSE.

11:56 HOTSPOT AREAS THAT WERE

11:57 JUSTIFIED KENMORE LONG ROAD ARE

11:58 SOME OF THOSE AREAS WHERE THE

11:59 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS CERTAINLY

12:00 ARE UM, OBVIOUSLY A COMPONENT

12:02 OF THE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

12:02 WORK AS ALSO UM DRIVEN AROUND

12:06 DEPLOYMENT AROUND METERS

12:07 DEPLOYMENT AROUND UM UH UH

12:10 POSTED UH STREET SWEEPING UH AS

12:12 WELL AS A RESIDENT PERMIT

12:13 PARKING AS YOU KNOW AND AS YOU

12:15 ALL KNOW UM WE ARE ALSO LOOKING

12:17 TO EXPAND THE TYPES OF TOOLS

12:18 THAT WE ARE EMPOWERING OUR

12:19 OFFICERS TO USE.

12:20 ON THIS SLIDE ARE JUST THREE

12:21 QUICK EXAMPLES OF SOME OF THE

12:22 UM, THE TOOLS THAT ARE BEING

12:24 UH, EXPLORED OR CONSIDERED

12:26 RIGHT NOW IN THE COMMONWEALTH

12:27 OF MASSACHUSETTS.

12:28 UH, THERE ARE 350.

12:30 UH.

12:31 CITIES AND TOWNS THAT HAVE

12:32 THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THEIR UH

12:34 ENFORCEMENT UNITS TO BE ABLE TO

12:35 USE AUTOMATED PARKING

12:36 ENFORCEMENT.

12:36 UH, THERE'S ONE MUNICIPALITY

12:39 THAT DOES NOT WE ARE THE ONE

12:40 MUNICIPALITY THAT UH CURRENTLY

12:41 BY STATE LAW IS NOT ALLOWED TO

12:42 UH, HAVE UM AUTOMATED PARKING

12:45 ENFORCEMENT IS SOMETHING WHICH

12:46 AS YOU KNOW COUNCIL THEY'RE

12:47 GOING TO THE TOP UH THAT WE ARE

12:49 CONTINUING TO UM ADVOCATE

12:50 AROUND AND SEE HOW THAT CAN BE

12:52 A TOOL THAT CAN HELP OUR

12:53 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, UM,

12:54 ADDRESS THE CONCERNS THAT WE

12:55 KNOW THAT, UH, THAT RESIDENTS

12:56 HAVE UH, IN ADDITION, UH, AS

12:59 MANY OF YOU KNOW, THE MBTA, UM

13:01 ,IS ADVANCING A SET OF WORK

13:02 THAT IS GOING TO COME FIRST THE

13:04 SILVER LINE FOUR AND SILVER

13:05 LINE FIVE ROUTES UM, STARTING

13:06 ESSENTIALLY IN THE NEW YEAR UM

13:08 ,WHERE THEY WILL BE ISSUING

13:10 TICKETS FOR STOPPING IN AT

13:11 REALLY SOMETHING A BUS STOPS

13:13 AND UH AS WELL AS PARKING OR

13:14 STANDING UH IN BUS LANES.

13:16 UM THE T IS PROVIDING A SOME

13:17 AMOUNT OF INFORMATION ABOUT

13:19 THAT.

13:19 HAPPY TO SHARE ANY OF THAT

13:20 CONTENT, UH, WITH ALL OF YOU OR

13:22 CONNECT YOU WITH FOLKS AT THE

13:23 MTA AROUND THAT.

13:24 UH, IN ADDITION UH, THE BUS ALL

13:26 THE SCHOOLS ARE UH, HAVE ISSUED

13:27 AN RFP THAT IS SPECIFIC TO, UM,

13:30 STOP ARM ENFORCEMENT TO MAKE

13:32 SURE THAT UM, SCHOOL BUS SAFETY

13:34 IS REALLY PRIORITIZED, UH, AND

13:36 UH, INCREASING THE USE OF NEW

13:37 TOOLS, UM, TO ASSURE THAT UM,

13:39 IN ADDITION TO THE WORK UH,

13:41 AROUND UH, ENFORCEMENT UM,

13:42 REALLY THERE'S A COMPANION SET

13:44 OF WORK THAT IS BEING LED BY

13:45 MIA CAPONE, UH, AND HER TEAM IN

13:47 COLLABORATION WITH OUR

13:48 DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION AND

13:50 TECHNOLOGY, WHICH IS THINKING

13:51 ABOUT HOW DO WE ADJUST THE

13:53 RULES OF OUR CURB, HOW DO WE

13:54 ADJUST THE, UM, THE REGULATORY

13:55 ENVIRONMENT OF, UH, ACROSS OUR

13:58 STREETS TO BEST MEET DEMAND AND

14:00 BY DOING THAT REDUCE THE AMOUNT

14:01 OF ILLEGAL PARKING THAT WE SEE

14:03 OTHER CURB RULES THAT SHOULD BE

14:04 ADJUSTED SO THAT WE CAN BETTER

14:05 UH, CREATE SPACE FOR UM FOR

14:07 COMMERCIAL LOADING FOR SHORT

14:09 TERM PICKUP, UH, OR DROP OFF UM

14:12 FOR OTHER THINGS THAT WE.

14:13 MAY BE SEEING IN OUR

14:14 NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE THE.

14:14 THE CURB RULES THEMSELVES ARE

14:16 NOT HONESTLY SUPPORTING THE USE

14:17 THAT WE'RE SEEING AND AS A

14:18 RESULT WE ARE SEEING A HIGHER

14:20 INCIDENCE OF THE SORT

14:20 OF ILLEGAL UM, PARKING BEHAVIOR

14:22 THAT ALL OF US WANT TO BE ABLE

14:24 TO ADDRESS.

14:24 UM, YOU GET A SNAPSHOT OF SOME

14:25 OF THE LOOK SOME OF THE WORK

14:27 THAT UM, THE MAYOR'S TEAM IS

14:29 DOING UH, WORK AROUND UH,

14:30 THINKING ABOUT WHERE WE DO

14:32 THINGS LIKE INSTALLING NEW

14:33 CHARGERS ACROSS OUR CITY, HAVE

14:34 AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THOSE

14:35 RULES AND REGULATIONS LOOK LIKE

14:37 CITYWIDE, UM, AND HOW AS A

14:39 NUMBER OF US HAVE BEEN HAVING

14:40 CONVERSATIONS ON HOW WE CREATE

14:41 UM, BLOCK BY BLOCK, UM, A

14:44 BETTER SET OF CURB RULES FOR

14:45 THE SORT OF NEEDS THAT ARE UH

14:47 THAT OUR RESIDENTS, SMALL

14:48 BUSINESSES ETC. HAVE AND TO

14:50 PROCURE LOCATION UM THAT IS

14:52 ALSO HELPING US INFORM UM HOW

14:54 WE UM THINK ABOUT ENGINEERING

14:56 CHANGES WHICH AGAIN IS NOT THE

14:58 FOCUS OF OF THIS CONVERSATION.

15:00 UM BUT IT IS ONE OF THE TOOLS

15:01 THAT WE HAVE TO MANAGE OUR

15:02 ROADS IS NOT JUST ENFORCEMENT,

15:04 NOT JUST EDUCATION, UM, BUT

15:05 ALSO ENGINEERING AND HOW WE

15:07 THINK ABOUT SORT OF DESIGNING

15:08 OUR ROADS IN PLACES THAT UH TO

15:10 BETTER REFLECT, UH, USE AND

15:13 BETTER UH, CREATIVE UH, SAFE

15:14 STREETS.

15:15 UH, AND SO WE ARE LOOKING AT

15:17 HOW WE COLLECT THROUGH ON ONE

15:18 REQUEST USE THOSE IN

15:20 COMBINATION WITH PARKING

15:21 ENFORCEMENT VIOLATIONS UH, AS

15:22 WELL AS VISION ZERO UH, CRASH

15:24 RELATED DATA, UH, TO HELP US

15:25 THINK THROUGH WHAT ARE HOTSPOTS

15:27 WE NEED TO BE, UH, USING ALL

15:28 THE LEVERS AT OUR DISPOSAL

15:30 ENFORCEMENT, ENGINEERING

15:31 EDUCATION, UH, CURB MANAGEMENT

15:33 ,CURB, UH, CRIMINAL REDESIGN.

15:35 UM, SO THAT IS A QUICK SNAPSHOT

15:37 OF THE OF THE WORK WE'RE DOING.

15:38 AGAIN, WE WELCOME THE

15:39 COLLABORATION OF ALL OF YOU AND

15:41 OF THE MANY, UH, CONSISTENCIES

15:42 ACROSS OUR CITY AND LOOK

15:44 FORWARD TO YOUR QUESTIONS

15:45 BECAUSE.

15:45 I KNOW WE'VE GOT ABOUT AN HOUR,

15:47 UM, WITH YOU ALL SO AND I WE'VE

15:49 BEEN JOINED NOW BY COUNCILORS

15:51 FITZGERALD, CULPEPER AND WEBER.

15:53 SO WE'VE GOT A PACKED HOUSE.

15:54 SO I'M GOING TO GIVE EVERYONE

15:56 SIX MINUTES AND HOPE THAT WE

15:57 CAN GET THROUGH.

15:58 UM BUT I'M GOING TO BE REALLY

15:59 UM HARD ON TIME SO I'M GOING TO

16:01 START SINCE I'M THE LEAD

16:02 SPONSOR I'M GOING TO START UH

16:03 WITH ME AND MY QUESTIONS.

16:05 SO UM SO YOU SAY YOU HAVE 139

16:08 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

16:10 OBVIOUSLY IN THE LAST SIX

16:12 MONTHS THERE HAVE BEEN

16:13 THOUSANDS OF 311 REPORTS

16:15 OF BLOCKED BIKE LANES.

16:16 OBVIOUSLY IT'S HARD TO RESPOND

16:17 TO THESE IN REAL TIME BECAUSE

16:18 THE CARS LIKELY TO MOVE AT SOME

16:21 POINT.

16:21 CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW THE CITY

16:22 APPROACHES THE ENFORCEMENT?

16:23 AND I'LL JUST ADD TO THAT I

16:25 KNOW THAT HAVING UH THERE BE

16:27 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT IN A

16:29 SPECIFIC AREA SO LIKE YOU KNOW,

16:31 EDITING THOSE CURBSIDE

16:32 REGULATIONS IS VERY IMPORTANT

16:34 BECAUSE THEN A TRAFFIC

16:35 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER HAS A

16:36 REASON TO BE IN THAT SPACE.

16:38 CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW THAT

16:40 THOSE THINGS LET YOU KNOW THOSE

16:41 TOPICS LED TOGETHER AND

16:43 POTENTIALLY WHAT CURBSIDE

16:44 REGULATIONS YOU'RE LOOKING AT

16:45 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE

16:47 ABILITY TO TO ENFORCE BLOCKED

16:48 BIKE LANES?

16:49 SURE.

16:49 HAPPY TO START.

16:50 AND I JUST WANT TO SAY THERE

16:52 WAS AT LEAST ONE ACCIDENT

16:53 ACTUALLY IN COUNCILOR FLYNN'S

16:55 DISTRICT, UH, OF A PERSON THAT

16:57 WE ALL KNOW WHO WAS FORCED OUT

16:59 INTO A UM INTO UH THE STREET UM

17:03 AND ENDED UP HITTING A POTHOLE

17:05 AND BREAKING HIS ARM.

17:07 SO I DON'T WANT TO, YOU KNOW,

17:08 NECESSARILY, YOU KNOW, TALK

17:10 ABOUT HIS INDIVIDUAL INCIDENT

17:11 BUT WE KNOW PARTICULARLY THAT

17:14 THIS IS HAPPENING AND IT HAS

17:16 REAL LIFE IMPACTS ON PEOPLE

17:17 THAT WE KNOW AND PEOPLE THAT

17:18 ARE IN THIS ADVOCACY SPACE.

17:20 UM, AND I AM LUCKY TO HAVE BEEN

17:22 A CHAMPION FROM THIS SO I KNOW

17:24 WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR

17:24 COMMUNITIES.

17:25 UH, BUT WE NEED TO WORK HARDER

17:26 .

17:27 IT'S NOT SIMPLY BIKERS CAN JUST

17:29 GO AROUND THERE.

17:30 THEY'RE PUTTING IN AN UNSAFE

17:31 ENVIRONMENT AND THEN PEOPLE

17:32 THAT ARE DRIVING ARE PUT IN AN

17:34 UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT WHERE

17:35 THEY'RE HAVING TO LOOK OUT, UM

17:37 ,AND AND NOBODY WANTS TO BE

17:38 YOU KNOW, NOBODY WANTS TO HAVE

17:40 CAUSED SOMETHING THAT

17:43 CATASTROPHIC.

17:44 UM SO HAVING TO START AND

17:45 REALLY UH NICK JOHN PLEASE FEEL

17:47 FREE TO UH AS WELL AS MAYOR UM

17:49 ,SO THE THE HEART OF THIS IS

17:52 REALLY UM THE UH WHERE WE HAVE

17:54 SHIFTS AND WHERE WE HAVE

17:55 ROUTES.

17:55 UM, SO PARKING ENFORCEMENT

17:56 OFFICERS, UM, WORK ON SHIFTS IN

17:59 OUR SCIENTISTS SPECIFIC ROUTES,

18:00 UM, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

18:02 UM, AND AS THEY ARE DOING THOSE

18:04 ROUTES ADDRESS A NUMBER OF THE

18:05 CONCERNS, UH, THAT COME IN.

18:07 BUT THERE'S ALSO SORT OF AS WE

18:08 GET SAFETY RELATED REQUESTS

18:09 THAT COME IN OTHERS DEFINITELY

18:11 FOR THEM TO BE DISPATCHED TO BE

18:12 ABLE TO GO FROM A PARTICULAR

18:13 LOCATION TO ADDRESS A SPECIFIC

18:14 INSTANCE AS YOU KNOW, TO THE

18:16 TOP BECAUSE SOME OF THESE

18:17 THINGS ARE VERY SHORT IN

18:20 DURATION.

18:21 UM, WHAT OFTEN WHAT IS VERY

18:22 HELPFUL FOR US IS TO LOOK AT

18:24 THE PATTERNS OF WHERE WE GET

18:25 TYPES OF REQUESTS OVER TIME.

18:27 IT MAY BE THAT THE OFFICER

18:28 ISN'T ABLE TO GET THERE BY THE

18:29 TIME THAT SORT OF DOUBLE

18:30 PARKING INSTANCE IS STILL THAT

18:31 SPECIFIC, DOUBLE PARKING IS

18:32 STILL HAPPENING.

18:33 BUT BY KNOWING THAT THAT

18:34 REQUEST CAME IN IT HELPS US

18:35 THINK THROUGH HOW COULD WE

18:37 ADJUST OUR SHIFTS IN THE FUTURE

18:38 OF OUR ROUTES IN THE FUTURE UM,

18:40 SO THAT A PARKING ENFORCEMENT

18:41 OFFICER CAN BE UH, OPTIMALLY

18:43 LOCATED UH, GIVEN SOME OF THE

18:45 REQUEST PATTERNS WE'RE SEEING.

18:47 SO UM, WE ARE VERY CLEARLY IN A

18:50 UM YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WHAT TO DO

18:52 TO AVOID A LOT OF THIS UH, A

18:54 LOT OF THESE SITUATIONS

18:56 ESPECIALLY WITH BIKERS.

18:57 BUT THIS IS A REAL CONVERSATION

18:58 ABOUT CROSSWALKS AND UM, AND

19:01 FOR UM IN ORDER TO NOT BLOCK

19:03 CROSSWALKS SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO

19:06 DAYLIGHT THERE'S A STATE LAW

19:07 AROUND DAYLIGHTING.

19:09 UM, THERE ARE VARIOUS EXITS TO

19:12 SPECIFIC ALLEYS IN THE BACK BAY

19:13 WHERE WE HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THAT

19:14 IS REALLY UNSAFE FOR UM FOR

19:18 DRIVERS TO LEAVE WITHOUT YOU

19:20 KNOW, THEY CAN'T SEE IF A

19:22 PEDESTRIAN IS COMING TOWARDS

19:23 THEM.

19:24 SO I JUST WANT TO HIGHLIGHT

19:25 THAT WORK IN THE BACK BAY WE

19:26 HAVE HIGHLIGHTED NUMEROUS

19:27 ALLEYS WHERE IT IS UNSAFE FOR

19:30 DRIVERS TO TO EXIT UM WITHOUT

19:33 KNOWING THAT UH AND I THINK

19:35 OFTENTIMES THAT'S A YOU KNOW, A

19:37 CONVERSATION ABOUT PARKING A

19:38 CONVERSATION ABOUT COMMERCIAL

19:40 LOADING A LOT OF OUR COMMERCIAL

19:41 VEHICLES PARKED ILLEGALLY SO

19:43 WHETHER THEY WOULD END UP

19:44 PARKING THERE ANYWAYS.

19:46 UM BUT BUT THIS LENDS TO THE

19:48 TOPIC THAT I WANT TO BRING UP

19:49 PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

19:51 UM, WE KNOW THAT ON CAMBRIDGE

19:53 STREET I RECENTLY DID A VIDEO

19:54 ON THIS BUT ON CAMBRIDGE STREET

19:56 I CAN JUST WALK DOWN THE STREET

19:58 AND KNOW THAT THE BIKE LANE IS

19:59 GOING TO BE BLOCKED AND THAT'S

20:00 BECAUSE DURING SNOW REMOVAL

20:03 TIMES ALL OF THE BOLLARDS

20:05 ESSENTIALLY WERE HIT BY YOU

20:06 KNOW, SNOW REMOVAL VEHICLES

20:08 THOSE HAVE NOT BEEN REPLACED.

20:11 UM AND I KNOW IT'S A TOPIC

20:12 OF CONVERSATION EVEN FOR MDH

20:14 BECAUSE THEY WOULD LIKE TO BE

20:16 ABLE TO USE THE BIKE LANE FOR

20:17 EMERGENCY IN EMERGENCY CASES

20:19 WHERE IT'S DIRE.

20:21 AND SO I, I DO THINK WE SHOULD

20:23 START CALLING IT YOU KNOW BIKE

20:25 LANE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLE LANE

20:27 BECAUSE I DO THINK OUR UM

20:29 HOSPITALS AND THE INSTITUTIONS

20:30 CARE DEEPLY ABOUT THOSE AREAS

20:33 NOT BEING BLOCKED IF THEY'RE

20:34 NEEDED TO BE USED FOR EMERGENCY

20:36 VEHICLE.

20:37 UM, SO CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE

20:38 BIT ABOUT PHYSICAL

20:40 INFRASTRUCTURE AND ALSO JUST

20:41 THE REPLACEMENT OF BOLLARDS?

20:42 WE I HAVE GOTTEN A LOT OF THANK

20:43 YOU EMAILS.

20:44 UM, THE PUBLIC GARDEN BIKE

20:46 LANES HAVE GOTTEN A LOT

20:47 OF THEIR BOLLARDS BACK AND WE

20:48 ARE SO THRILLED ABOUT THAT.

20:49 BUT PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE IS

20:51 I MEAN ENFORCEMENT IS GREAT BUT

20:54 IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE HAD

20:55 PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE UM, TO

20:58 MAKE SURE THAT UH, WE'RE NOT

21:00 MAKING BAD BEHAVIOR HAPPEN BY

21:02 UM YOU KNOW YOU KNOW, BY NOT BY

21:06 INCENTIVIZING OR MAKING IT EASY

21:07 FOR PEOPLE TO NOT OBEY THE LAW.

21:09 I AGREE I THINK WITHOUT

21:11 QUESTION IS A COMBINATION

21:12 OF AGAIN, ENGINEERING UH,

21:14 CHANGES AS WELL AS ENFORCEMENT

21:15 AND EDUCATION THAT HELPS US UH

21:17 AND.

21:18 AND NOT TO INTERRUPT THERE'S

21:19 JUST A LOT OF BIKE LANES THAT

21:20 HAVE BEEN DESIGNED WITH

21:21 PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT

21:22 DON'T HAVE THAT SAME

21:24 INFRASTRUCTURE RIGHT NOW.

21:25 SO I THINK AS WE TALK ABOUT

21:26 SORT OF LEADING WITH AN

21:27 ENGINEERING FOCUS, WE NEED TO

21:29 JUST MAKE SURE WE'RE REPLACING

21:30 THE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT DOES

21:31 GET ERODED.

21:32 I KNOW THAT'S EXPENSIVE.

21:33 UH, BUT FOR AN AREA LIKE

21:34 CAMBRIDGE STREET WE KNOW THAT

21:36 IT'S GOING TO BE BLOCKED.

21:37 SO WE NEED TO CREATE THAT

21:38 PHYSICAL BARRIER.

21:39 UM, SO.

21:40 AS YOU.

21:41 NOTED THERE ARE SOME PLACES

21:42 WHERE WE'VE RESTORED UH, FLEX

21:43 POSTS FOR EXAMPLE LIKE UH THE

21:45 PUBLIC GARDEN UH AND THE BOSTON

21:46 COMMON THERE'S CERTAINLY MORE

21:48 OF THAT UH, THAT UH NEEDS TO BE

21:50 DONE.

21:51 IN ADDITION, AS MANY OF YOU

21:52 HAVE SEEN UM, WE ARE LOOKING AT

21:54 CHANGING THE TYPE OF PHYSICAL

21:56 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE ARE

21:57 USING PARTICULARLY TO PROTECT

21:58 OUR BIKE LANES MOVING FROM UH,

22:00 SOMETHING LIKE A FLEX POST TO

22:01 SOMETHING WHICH IS UH PRECAST

22:03 OR CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE.

22:04 YOU CAN GO OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW TO

22:06 STATE STREET AND SEE AN EXAMPLE

22:07 OF WHAT PRECAST CONCRETE UH,

22:09 LOOKS LIKE.

22:10 IT'S A MATERIAL THAT WE ARE

22:11 INCREASINGLY USING WHICH CAN BE

22:13 MORE DURABLE UM UNDER UH UNDER

22:16 ROAD USE AND FRIDAY MORNING

22:18 DURING UH PROTECTION FOR EVERY

22:19 SINGLE CYCLIST YOU CAN UH AGAIN

22:22 GO OUTSIDE OF THIS BUILDING AND

22:23 GO DOWN CONGRESS STREET AND SEE

22:24 WHAT UH, CAST AND PLACE

22:26 CONCRETE.

22:26 LOOKS LIKE.

22:27 UH, SOMETHING WHICH THE TEAM

22:28 HAS BEEN WITH GREAT CREDIT TO A

22:29 WIDE VARIETY OF FOLKS ON THE

22:30 STREETS CABINET OVER THE PAST

22:31 YEAR AND A HALF UM, HAVE BEEN

22:34 REFINING UM THE NEXT SET

22:35 OF CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE UH,

22:36 WILL BE HAPPENING ON WASHINGTON

22:37 STREET BETWEEN UH KNEELAND AND

22:40 AVENUE DE LAFAYETTE AND AGAIN

22:41 IT'S BEEN MARKED DOWN AND WILL

22:42 GET POURED SHORTLY.

22:43 UM SO THAT IS THE I STRONGLY

22:45 AGREE THAT THE PHYSICAL

22:46 INFRASTRUCTURE IS A NECESSARY

22:47 COMPONENT AND ENFORCEMENT.

22:48 THROUGH AND COULD I JUST GET A

22:50 QUICK ANSWER ON THE DAYLIGHTING

22:51 AND SORT OF HOW THOSE ARE

22:52 LOOKED AT BECAUSE I KNOW I

22:53 DON'T WANT TO BRING UP THE

22:55 SPECIFIC CASES.

22:55 IT DOESN'T APPLY TO EVERYONE

22:56 BUT DAYLIGHTING IS INCREDIBLY

22:57 IMPORTANT FOR CROSSWALKS.

22:59 AND THEN JUST QUICKLY IF YOU

23:01 COULD RESPOND TO WE HAVE A LOT

23:03 OF FADED CROSSWALKS AND SORT

23:05 OF WHAT THAT MAINTENANCE LOOKS

23:06 LIKE AND HOW THOSE ARE

23:07 PRIORITIZED.

23:08 UM, SO HAPPY.

23:09 TO TALK ABOUT DAYLIGHTING AND

23:11 NICK JOHN PLEASE OPEN THAT ON

23:12 THE UH UM THE RESTORATION OR

23:15 MAYBE IT'S THE CROSSWALKS.

23:16 UH, SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE.

23:18 ARE LOOKING TO DO AS.

23:19 MANY OF YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A

23:21 VERY EXTENSIVE UM, UH, ANNUAL

23:24 RESURFACING PROGRAM.

23:25 UM, AS PART OF THAT IN OUR

23:26 RESURFACING PROGRAM, UH, WE ARE

23:28 LOOKING TO.

23:29 EMBED MORE CHANGES THAT ARE NOT

23:31 JUST ABOUT REPLACING UH, THE

23:32 ASPHALT BUT UH.

23:34 INCREASING THE UH.

23:36 THE SORT OF FEATURES WHICH

23:37 ARE THERE.

23:37 SO ON CENTER STREET IN JAMAICA

23:38 PLAN FOR EXAMPLE, WHICH WAS

23:39 RECENTLY RESURFACED UH, WE WERE

23:41 ABLE TO ADD DAYLIGHTING AT UM A

23:43 NUMBER OF THOSE INTERSECTIONS.

23:44 THAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF THE TYPE

23:45 OF WORK WHICH WE'D BE LOOKING

23:47 TO DO.

23:47 UM, PARTICULARLY AS OUR NEXT

23:49 CONSTRUCTION SEASON RAMPS UP TO

23:50 MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PUTTING

23:52 IN PLACE DAYLIGHTING AND KEY

23:53 INTERSECTIONS RECOGNIZE THAT

23:55 THAT IN ADDITION TO SORT

23:56 OF STRIPING THAT THAT SOMETIMES

23:58 PHYSICAL UH, AGAIN, VERTICAL

24:00 DEVICES, FLEXIBLE SETS THAT ARE

24:01 GOING TO BE A CENTRAL PART

24:03 OF THAT AS WELL.

24:03 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

24:04 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL THE

24:05 WORK THAT YOU DO IN MY DISTRICT

24:07 AND ALL THE RESPONSES THAT I

24:08 GET.

24:08 I DO THINK IT'S REALLY

24:09 IMPORTANT THAT, YOU KNOW,

24:10 SOMETIMES THERE'S NOT A GOOD

24:12 ANSWER ABOUT A SPECIFIC YEAR

24:13 LIKE WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT

24:14 THIS AND I KNOW IT TAKES SOME

24:16 THOUGHTFULNESS BUT IN TERMS

24:18 OF REPLACING THE INFRASTRUCTURE

24:19 THAT AS AS DESIGNED I JUST WANT

24:22 TO SAY ON THE RECORD I'M VERY

24:23 SUPPORTIVE OF THE

24:25 INFRASTRUCTURE SHOULD BE EITHER

24:27 AS DESIGNED OR EVEN BETTER THAN

24:28 DESIGNED WHEN WHEN NEW THINGS

24:30 LIKE ZEBRAS AND OTHER OTHER

24:32 THINGS BECOME AVAILABLE.

24:33 AND I KNOW THAT UM I'M ALSO A

24:36 HUGE ADVOCATE WITH THE ZEBRAS

24:37 OF HAVING THERE BE UH,

24:39 NOTIFICATION THAT THE ZEBRAS

24:40 ARE STARTING BECAUSE THAT CAN

24:42 BE VERY HARD UM, AS WELL AS

24:44 WITH THE CAST CONCRETE UH, FOR

24:45 DRIVERS THERE REALLY NEEDS TO

24:47 BE A NOTIFICATION THAT THERE'S

24:49 GOING TO BE SOME LOW BARRIERS

24:50 EITHER CAST CONCRETE OR ZEBRAS

24:52 .

24:52 UM, WE'VE HAD MANY CARS GET

24:54 STUCK UM, BECAUSE THEY JUST

24:56 DIDN'T REALIZE THEY THERE, YOU

24:57 KNOW, END UP IN THE BIKE LANE

24:59 OR UM OR THEY GET STUCK ON THE

25:01 CONCRETE AND I THINK THAT'S

25:02 INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT THAT

25:03 ANYTHING THAT'S DESIGNED IS

25:04 DESIGNED FOR SAFETY FOR FOR

25:06 DRIVERS AS WELL.

25:07 UM, WHO WHO ARE WHO ARE

25:09 TRAVELING TO THE CITY AND DON'T

25:10 NECESSARILY KNOW OUR

25:11 INFRASTRUCTURE.

25:12 UM SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

25:14 UM, I'M I KNOW I WASN'T TOUGH

25:16 ON MYSELF BECAUSE I'M THE LEAD

25:17 SPONSOR, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE

25:18 VERY TOUGH ON TIME, UH, BECAUSE

25:20 WE HAVE EXACTLY THE RIGHT

25:21 AMOUNT OF TIME FOR EVERYONE TO

25:22 ASK THEIR QUESTIONS.

25:24 COUNCILOR MURPHY, YOU HAVE THE

25:25 FLOOR.

25:26 DO IT.

25:27 I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD

25:29 INTO.

25:29 I'LL JUST START.

25:30 THAT'S FINE.

25:31 UM, THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

25:34 UM, AND THANK YOU FOR THE

25:37 RESIDENTS, THE PEDESTRIANS

25:39 EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT FOR THIS

25:41 HEARING ALSO, UM, BLOCKED

25:43 CROSSWALKS, BIKE LANES WE KNOW

25:45 CREATE REAL SAFETY CONCERNS.

25:47 I ALSO UM WHAT I SEE MORE SO IS

25:50 JUST BLATANT DISREGARD FOR

25:52 CROSSWALKS.

25:53 I SEE THIS ALL THE TIME.

25:54 I WILL SIT THERE AND SEE NOT

25:56 JUST 1 TO 3 CARS JUST BLOW

25:59 THROUGH OR IF YOU STOP TO LET

26:01 SOMEONE GO CARS BEHIND YOU COME

26:03 AROUND YOU ON THE LEFT AND JUST

26:05 FLY THROUGH SO UM THEY CAN

26:09 FORCE AS WE KNOW PEDESTRIANS,

26:10 PEOPLE USING WHEELCHAIRS.

26:12 WE SEE A PARENTS PUSHING

26:13 STROLLERS, KIDS AT BUS STOPS

26:15 AND CYCLISTS INTO MOVING

26:16 TRAFFIC.

26:17 IT'S OBVIOUSLY DANGEROUS.

26:20 UM.

26:20 YOU SHARED.

26:21 SOME SLIDES.

26:22 I JUST HAVE SOME FOLLOW UP

26:24 QUESTIONS AND I ALWAYS LIKE A

26:26 GOOD VISUAL.

26:27 THIS VISUAL OF IT LOOKS LIKE

26:28 JUST SEPTEMBER.

26:29 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GOT A COPY

26:30 OF THIS, BUT 1462 PICTURES

26:36 OF ACTUAL CARS FROM JUST

26:38 SEPTEMBER 2026 BLOCKING BIKE

26:40 LANES.

26:41 UM, FOR THAT ONE MONTH ALONE IS

26:43 WHAT OR AT LEAST WHAT THEY SAW

26:45 AND REPORTED.

26:48 UM RESIDENTS ALSO NEED TO KNOW

26:50 WHO'S RESPONSIBLE AND WHAT

26:52 HAPPENS AFTER A REPORT.

26:54 OFTENTIMES I HEAR LIKE WELL WE

26:55 SENT IT TO 311 WE MADE A CALL

26:58 WE CALLED YOUR OFFICE WE CALL

26:59 TRANSPORTATION DIRECTLY AND

27:01 WHERE DID IT GO BECAUSE WE

27:02 DON'T SEE ANY CHANGE.

27:04 ALSO SOMETIMES THEY REACH OUT

27:06 SAY TO THE LOCAL POLICE

27:08 DEPARTMENT AND THEY MIGHT BE

27:10 WORKING WITH THE TRANSPORTATION

27:12 COP IN THEIR DISTRICTS.

27:14 AND SO I DON'T THINK THE

27:15 COMMUNICATIONS ALWAYS

27:16 CONNECTED.

27:18 ONE THING THAT'S TRUE AND WHEN

27:19 WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION AROUND

27:21 FOOD DELIVERY AND MOPEDS JUST

27:24 LAST YEAR FOR ME IT'S I DON'T

27:28 THINK ADDING MORE BUREAUCRACY

27:31 OR MORE RULES OR MORE

27:33 VIOLATIONS IS ALWAYS NECESSARY

27:36 WHEN WE HAVE RULES AND WAYS TO

27:40 COMBAT THESE ISSUES.

27:41 RIGHT NOW WE'RE JUST NOT USING

27:42 THEM, RIGHT?

27:44 SO IF THE NUMBERS SHOW LIKE HOW

27:45 MANY 311 COMPLAINTS ABOUT

27:48 BLOCKED BIKE LANES AND

27:50 CROSSWALKS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED

27:52 SO FAR THIS YEAR DO WE KNOW?

27:56 THAT THIS IS SO WE'D HAVE TO

27:58 GET BACK TO YOU WITH THAT

27:59 ANSWER JUST COMES IN AS PARKING

28:01 ENFORCEMENT FROM PREVIOUS DATA.

28:02 NOW IT'S COMING IN A LITTLE BIT

28:04 MORE THAT WE'VE MOVED ON TO THE

28:05 NEW THREE ON ONE SYSTEM TO

28:06 BUILD UP BREAK IT DOWN BUT WE'D

28:07 HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU WITH

28:08 THAT ANSWER.

28:09 SO ORIGINALLY IF YOU MADE A

28:10 CALL IT COULD BE ANYTHING FROM

28:12 SOMEONE'S BLOCKING MY DRIVEWAY

28:15 TO SOMEONE'S BLOCKING LIKE IT

28:16 COULD HAVE BEEN ANY TRAFFIC

28:18 ENFORCEMENT WOULD HAVE ALL BEEN

28:19 PUT INTO ONE CATEGORY.

28:20 WE'D HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE

28:22 NOTES LIKE YOU KNOW KIND OF SEE

28:23 SO LIKE YES WE WOULD BE ABLE TO

28:25 TELL LIKE WHAT IT IS BASED ON

28:26 THE CASE BUT WE JUST CAN'T PULL

28:27 THAT NUMBER QUICKLY FOR YOU.

28:29 NO NO THAT'S FINE.

28:29 BUT I'M SAYING GOING FORWARD IS

28:31 THE NEW SYSTEM ALLOWING YOU TO

28:33 AGGREGATE IT BEFORE YOU HAVE TO

28:35 GO THROUGH THE NOTES?

28:36 AND WHEN DID THAT NEW SYSTEM

28:37 START?

28:38 LIKE A WEEK AGO JUST OVER.

28:39 A WEEK, RIGHT?

28:40 YEAH BECAUSE I WAS TALKING TO

28:41 YOU ABOUT YEAH.

28:42 AND THAT WILL GIVE US MORE

28:43 DETAILED INFORMATION.

28:44 SO WHY DON'T WE JUST TALK ABOUT

28:46 THAT GOING FORWARD WHAT DO WE

28:48 HOPE WITH THAT NEW SYSTEM JOHN.

28:50 LIKE WHAT WHAT DO WE HOPE TO

28:52 SEE FROM THAT.

28:53 YEAH I THINK YEAH.

28:55 SO ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF THE

28:56 NEW SYSTEM IS THAT WE ACTUALLY

28:58 HAVE BROKEN OUT.

28:59 UH PART OF THE CASE CATEGORIES

29:00 INCLUDES WHAT ARE CALLED SAFETY

29:02 CASES VERSUS NON SAFETY CASES.

29:04 WHILE PARKING ENFORCEMENT CASE

29:05 IS IMPORTANT TO US BEING

29:07 REPORTED HOLISTICALLY, THERE IS

29:09 A DIFFERENCE IN URGENCY FOR THE

29:10 TEAM TO KNOW THAT A FIRE

29:11 HYDRANT IS BLOCKED COMPARATIVE

29:12 TO LIKE AN RPP STICKER

29:14 VIOLATION.

29:15 WE WANT TO GET TO ALL OF THEM

29:16 BUT OUR TEAM PRIORITIZES CAN

29:17 VERY CLEARLY SEE WHAT THOSE

29:19 SAFETY VIOLATIONS ARE.

29:20 SO HAVING THAT BROKEN OUT FOR

29:21 OUR TEAM HAS RESULTED IN A

29:23 SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OUR

29:24 ABILITY TO ADDRESS IT, SEE IT,

29:26 DISPATCH AN OFFICER OUT SAME

29:28 POINT THAT THE CHIEF HAD MADE

29:29 EARLIER RIGHT OF STEP ONE AT A

29:31 TIME.

29:31 OUR OFFICERS GET THERE.

29:32 THERE'S A GOOD THERE'S

29:33 SOMETIMES A CHANCE THAT THOSE

29:34 CARS ARE NO LONGER PRESENT, BUT

29:36 IT JUST KEEPS IT ON THE RADAR

29:37 OF OUR TEAM.

29:38 THAT HELPS BUILD UP OUR TEAM'S

29:39 KNOWLEDGE TO GO TO THE AREA TO

29:41 HELP ADDRESS IT FOR THE FUTURE.

29:42 AND IS IT EVER COMMUNICATED

29:44 WITH THE BOSTON POLICE ALSO WHO

29:46 HAS THE ABILITY TO GIVE THE

29:48 TICKETS?

29:49 BOTH OF WHOM.

29:50 BOTH OF US DO.

29:51 AND WHO GIVES OUT MORE?

29:54 DO WE KNOW THAT DATA CAN.

29:56 LEAD US DEFINITELY BY FAR.

29:58 BY CAR.

29:58 OKAY.

29:58 UM.

30:02 IF SOMETHING'S HAPPENING RIGHT

30:03 NOW BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID,

30:04 OFTENTIMES WHEN YOU GET THERE

30:07 IT'S ALREADY GONE.

30:08 MAYBE THE CAR MOVED, IT PICKED

30:10 UP ITS PIZZA, IT'S DRIVEN AWAY,

30:12 IT'S GONE.

30:13 BUT IF IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW

30:15 WHO CAN A RESIDENT CONTACTING

30:16 LIKE HOW LONG CAN THEY EXPECT

30:19 SOMEONE TO RESPOND?

30:21 YEAH I WOULD SAY RESIDENTS WHO

30:22 UTILIZE 301 IS THE BEST SYSTEM

30:24 TO BE ABLE TO ALERT US TO GET

30:25 TO IT.

30:26 I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU AN

30:27 EXACT TIME ON ON IT BECAUSE IT

30:29 DEPENDS ON TIME OF DAY TRAFFIC

30:30 WHERE THE OFFICE IS.

30:32 WE HAVE DATA ON THAT.

30:33 BY THE TIME IT CAME IN TO THE

30:34 TIME IT WAS CLOSE WITH THE NEW

30:36 SYSTEM ALLOW US TO KIND OF GET

30:37 A TIME LAPSE OF HOW LONG EACH.

30:40 YEAH I.

30:41 DEFINITELY HAVE.

30:42 TO CHECK WITH THE SYSTEM

30:43 FIRST RIGHT THAT.

30:44 AND I KNOW THE MAP SHOWS LIKE

30:46 THE HEATED SPOTS BUT WHERE

30:49 THERE ARE REPEATED COMPLAINTS

30:53 WHAT DOES HAPPEN?

30:54 YEAH I THINK FOR US WHEN WE

30:55 KNOW THAT THERE'S REPEATED

30:56 COMPLAINTS IN AN AREA OUR

30:58 OFFICERS ARE PAYING ATTENTION

30:59 TO THAT AREA ON THEIR ROUTES.

31:00 RIGHT?

31:00 THEY'RE THEY'RE PRETTY

31:02 CONSISTENTLY ON THOSE SPOTS.

31:03 OUR TEAM MEMBERS HAVE ALSO OUR

31:05 SENIOR LEVEL MEMBERS OF OUR

31:06 TEAM HAVE BEEN DOING THIS JOB

31:07 SOME FOR OVER 30 YEARS.

31:09 AND SO THEY'RE AWARE OF WHERE

31:11 SOME OF THESE HIGHER LEVEL OR

31:12 CONSISTENT AREAS MIGHT POP UP

31:14 OR WHAT MIGHT CAUSE SOMETHING

31:15 TO BECOME MORE HIGH LIKE MORE

31:17 HIGH CONCENTRATED IN 301

31:18 COMPLAINTS OR ISSUES SO THEY

31:20 SPEND THEIR TIME WHILE THE TWO

31:22 TEAMS HAVE RULES.

31:22 THEY DO SPEND THEIR TIME BEING

31:24 ABLE TO MAKE SURE FOLKS

31:25 UNDERSTAND WHERE THEY SHOULD

31:25 PUT WEIGHT OF THEIR TIME HOW TO

31:27 WALK AROUND ALSO WHEN AN

31:29 OFFICER IS PRESENT, TICKETS

31:30 AREN'T THE ONLY WAY TO BE ABLE

31:32 TO COUNT THEM.

31:32 AS FOR ENFORCEMENT AS YOU ALL

31:34 PROBABLY SEE WHEN AN OFFICER IS

31:35 OUT THERE PEOPLE MOVE PRETTY

31:37 QUICKLY.

31:38 ONCE YOU START WRITING ONE

31:39 TICKET PEOPLE GO SO THEIR

31:41 PRESENCE ALSO COUNTS AS

31:42 ENFORCEMENT ACTION BECAUSE IT'S

31:43 RESOLVING THAT CASE.

31:44 THAT.

31:44 WHAT POWER DID.

31:45 THEY THANK YOU TO REQUEST?

31:46 THANK YOU.

31:47 WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO

31:49 COUNCILOR FLYNN.

31:50 COUNCILOR FLYNN YOU HAVE THE

31:51 FLOOR.

31:53 YOU TO.

31:57 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FLYNN.

31:58 GO AHEAD.

32:01 THANK YOU.

32:02 UH THANK YOU CHRIS FOR.

32:05 BEING HERE.

32:08 I DO WANT TO START WITH.

32:10 THE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

32:13 OFFICERS.

32:14 UM, THEY PLAY AN INCREDIBLE

32:16 IMPORTANT ROLE IN THE CITY.

32:20 THEY'RE NOT RESPECTED OFTEN, UM

32:23 ,BY THE PUBLIC.

32:25 OFTENTIMES THEY ARE VERBALLY

32:28 ASSAULTED OR SOMETIMES

32:29 PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED.

32:31 UM, SO WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

32:35 THE PROFESSIONALISM OF THE

32:37 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

32:39 I KNOW IT'S NOT A GROUP.

32:40 PEOPLE TEND TO STAND UP AND

32:44 SUPPORT BUT I SUPPORT THEM.

32:45 I LIKE THEM, I RESPECT THEM AND

32:49 I THINK IT'S TERRIBLY UNFAIR

32:51 HOW THEY ARE TREATED AT TIMES

32:52 BY THE PUBLIC.

32:54 SO I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I

32:55 CAN TO SUPPORT THEM.

32:57 UM.

32:59 CHRIS HAS ASSAULTS AGAINST

33:02 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

33:03 HAS GONE UP.

33:05 FOR SO I VERY MUCH APPRECIATE

33:07 YOU NOTING.

33:09 THE INCREDIBLE ROLE THAT A

33:10 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OUR

33:11 ENTIRE TEAM PLAYS UM, THEY ARE

33:13 UH, FUNDAMENTAL TO ALL OF OUR

33:15 SAFETY WORK.

33:16 THEY'RE NOT EASY JOBS.

33:17 THESE ARE FANTASTIC PEOPLE WHO

33:18 ARE DOING GREAT WORK.

33:19 UM, I CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON

33:20 THE SPECIFIC TRENDS.

33:21 UM, I DON'T HAVE A SUBJECT

33:23 MATTER FOR MY HEAD, BUT I

33:24 APPRECIATE YOU SORT OF RAISING

33:25 BOTH THAT ISSUE AND RECOGNIZING

33:27 THEIR PROFESSIONALISM.

33:28 OKAY.

33:29 ONE ISSUE I FOCUSED ON FOR

33:32 THE LAST NINE YEARS IS

33:34 CERTAINLY PEDESTRIAN SAFETY.

33:36 UM, IMPROVING IMPROVING HOW UM,

33:41 IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE AND

33:43 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY FOR

33:43 RESIDENTS.

33:45 UM, I DO THINK THE SPEED LIMIT

33:48 UM IS EXCESSIVE.

33:49 I DO THINK 25 MILES AN HOUR

33:51 DRIVING A VEHICLE IN

33:53 NEIGHBORHOODS OF BOSTON UM, IS

33:56 IS EXTREMELY FAST IN MY OPINION

33:58 UM, VERY DIFFICULT TO STOP AT A

34:00 CROSSWALK AND I, I HEAR IT

34:02 OFTEN FROM MY PARENTS WHO ARE

34:04 ELDERLY AND DISABLED THAT ARE

34:06 WALKING AND HAVE A HARD TIME

34:08 WHEN THEY'RE IN THE CROSSWALK

34:09 WHERE A CAR WILL SPEED RIGHT BY

34:11 THEM.

34:12 OTHER PEOPLE PROBABLY HAVE SEEN

34:14 THAT AS WELL.

34:15 UM CHRIS, DO YOU THINK THERE'S

34:17 ANY OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO

34:21 RECONSIDER?

34:21 AND I WAS PART OF THE TEAM THAT

34:23 REDUCED IT FROM 30 TO 25, BUT

34:25 COULD WE REDUCE IT OR AT LEAST

34:27 HAVE A CONVERSATION GOING FROM

34:29 25 TO 20?

34:29 IT'S CERTAINLY ALWAYS HAPPY TO

34:31 HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND AND

34:32 THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH US

34:35 BUT WE CAN ALSO LOOK AT VERY

34:37 SPECIFIC SCHOOL ZONES FOR

34:38 EXAMPLE PLACES WHERE UH WE ARE

34:41 SEEING SIGNIFICANT INSTANCES.

34:43 OF SPEEDING WHERE THERE'S AN.

34:44 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO MAKE

34:45 FURTHER ALTERATIONS.

34:46 UM, AND HAPPY TO HAVE YOU TO

34:47 ENGAGE IN THAT CONVERSATION.

34:48 THANK YOU.

34:50 UM, ANOTHER ISSUE OF OF FOCUSED

34:53 ON AND MY COLLEAGUES HAVE AS

34:55 WELL I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO

34:56 MY COLLEAGUES CONCURRENT

34:58 LIGHTING UM STREET LIGHTING IS

35:00 AN ISSUE I AM CONCERNED WITH.

35:04 AND FOR THE PUBLIC THAT MAY NOT

35:06 KNOW ABOUT IT, IT'S BASICALLY

35:08 GIVING THE THE VEHICLE OR

35:11 WHOEVER IS DRIVING THE VEHICLE

35:13 UM, AND IN THE PEDESTRIAN

35:16 THAT'S CROSSING THE STREET BOTH

35:17 BASICALLY GIVING BOTH OF THEM

35:20 THE RIGHT OF WAY AT THE SAME

35:21 TIME.

35:22 THE CITY COUNCIL WENT ON RECORD

35:25 AGAINST AGAINST THIS PROPOSAL

35:27 UH SEVERAL TIMES.

35:28 SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY

35:30 COLLEAGUES FOR SUPPORTING ME.

35:31 I WAS AT A HEARING ABOUT SIX

35:34 MONTHS AGO WITH THE MAYOR AND

35:37 IT WAS THE IT WAS THE MAYOR'S

35:39 COMMISSIONER MAYOR'S COMMISSION

35:40 ON UH, DISABILITY RIGHTS.

35:43 IN THE FIRST QUESTION SOMEONE

35:45 ASKED ME AND THEY THEY THEY

35:46 SAID HEY ED, WHEN ARE YOU GOING

35:48 TO CHANGE THE CONCURRENT

35:49 SIGNALING IT'S IMPACTING

35:50 PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.

35:52 IT'S IMPACTING OUR SENIORS AND

35:55 I AND I SAID TO THE PERSON I'M

35:57 GOING TO CONTINUE WORKING ON

35:59 THAT.

35:59 I'M GOING TO CONTINUE FIGHTING

36:00 FOR THAT.

36:01 UM BECAUSE I THINK IT'S

36:01 TERRIBLY UNFAIR.

36:02 CHRIS, WHAT IS YOUR RESPONSE?

36:04 SIR?

36:05 UM SO UH I IT'S REALLY THIS

36:07 IS CONCURRENT VERSUS EXCLUSIVE

36:08 SIGNALS IS SOMETHING THAT OUR

36:10 UH, TRAFFIC ENGINEERS LOOK AT

36:13 SIGNIFICANTLY AND ACROSS ANY

36:14 SIGNALIZED INTERSECTION IN THE

36:15 CITY.

36:16 UM, THEY HAVE I THINK.

36:18 RECENTLY OR WITHIN THE LAST TWO

36:19 YEARS UPDATED THEIR SIGNAL

36:20 POLICY.

36:20 HAPPY TO LOOK BACK TO YOU ON

36:21 THE SPECIFICS OF THE UPDATED

36:22 SIGNAL POLICY AND OBVIOUSLY

36:24 ALWAYS INTERESTED IN YOUR

36:25 SPECIFIC THOUGHTS ON AN

36:26 INTERSECTION THAT THE TEAM

36:27 SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT.

36:28 CHRIS, AS A PUBLIC AWARENESS

36:30 AND UM, ANNOUNCEMENT UM, WHEN

36:33 PEOPLE SEE A VEHICLE PARKED AT

36:37 A IN FRONT OF THE HYDRANT OR A

36:41 AN EMERGENCY RAMP TELL US WHAT

36:43 TO DO PLEASE.

36:44 UH PEOPLE SHOULD CALL

36:46 IMMEDIATELY CALL THROUGH ON ONE

36:47 IT GETS TO OUR PARKING

36:48 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS, UH, AS

36:49 JOHN OUTLINED FOR US TO BE ABLE

36:51 TO DISPATCH SOMEBODY, UH, TO

36:52 ANY OF THOSE ISSUES.

36:54 JOHN, HOW OFTEN WILL HOW

36:55 QUICKLY WILL, UM, CITY

36:57 OFFICIALS RESPOND WHEN THAT

36:58 HAPPENS?

36:59 THE CASES COME IN PRETTY QUICK

37:00 WITH OUR TEAM.

37:01 SO JUST DEPENDING ON WHERE THE

37:02 OFFICERS ARE AT THE TIME

37:03 DEPENDS ON OUR ABILITY TO GET

37:05 OUT THERE AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE.

37:07 I SPENT A LOT OF MY WEEKEND ON

37:08 ESPECIALLY ON SATURDAY AND

37:09 SUNDAY TRAVELING AROUND LOOKING

37:12 FOR ANYONE THAT'S PARKED IN

37:14 FRONT OF A UM HYDRANT.

37:16 THAT'S WHAT I LOVE DOING

37:17 FINDING OUT WHO'S AND THEN

37:18 CALLING THE POLICE.

37:20 DO WE HAVE A BREAKDOWN IN TERMS

37:22 OF ARE WE ABLE TO TOW PEOPLE ON

37:24 THE WEEKENDS WHEN THERE'S A

37:26 CURRENT AT A HYDRANT?

37:28 AND BETWEEN US AND THE POLICE

37:31 DEPARTMENT WE COVER THE

37:32 WEEKENDS?

37:33 HOW OFTEN DO I GET THAT CAR

37:35 TOWED?

37:35 HOW MANY HOW FAST WILL I GET

37:37 THAT KATO?

37:38 YEAH, I THINK IT JUST DEPENDS

37:40 ON WHAT OTHER CALLS ARE COMING

37:41 IN AT THE TIME FOR US AS WE

37:43 HAVE A YOU KNOW, IT TAKES

37:44 SIGNIFICANTLY LONGER TO TOW A

37:46 CAR COMPARED TO WRITING A

37:47 TICKET ON A CAR AND BEING ABLE

37:48 TO MOVE.

37:49 SO JUST WE'LL TAKE UH DEPENDING

37:51 ON WHAT IS ALREADY IN FRONT

37:52 OF THE TEAM.

37:52 THAT DAY.

37:54 I HAVE ZERO TOLERANCE FOR

37:56 THAT.

37:56 I WANT THAT CAR TOWED

37:57 IMMEDIATELY AND WHEN I SAY

37:59 IMMEDIATELY I WANT I MEAN LIKE

38:01 20 MINUTES BY THE TIME I MAKE

38:03 THAT CALL I WANT THAT UH, TOW

38:05 TRUCK UM DOWN DOWN THE STREET

38:08 TOWING THAT GUY OUT OF HERE

38:09 WITHIN 20 MINUTES.

38:11 I CAN'T WAIT AROUND FOR 3 OR 4

38:13 HOURS TO HAVE A TOW TRUCK

38:15 BECAUSE I OWE IT TO MY

38:16 CONSTITUENTS TO ENSURE THAT

38:18 THEIR SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT AND

38:21 I'M NOT DOING MY JOB WHEN I SEE

38:23 A CAR IN FRONT OF A HYDRANT FOR

38:26 SEVERAL HOURS AND PEOPLE WILL

38:27 SAY HEY YEAH, DON'T YOU CARE

38:29 ABOUT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD?

38:30 WHY YOU ALLOWING THAT TO

38:31 HAPPEN?

38:32 I NEED THESE CARS TOWED

38:33 IMMEDIATELY IF THEY'RE IN FRONT

38:35 OF A HYDRANT.

38:36 UM, MADAM CHAIR, I WANT TO BE

38:37 RESPECTFUL TO MY COLLEAGUES.

38:39 UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

38:41 THANK YOU.

38:42 UH, WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

38:43 COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON, YOU

38:44 HAVE SIX MINUTES.

38:47 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

38:48 AND, UH, THANK YOU,

38:49 COUNCILOR DURKAN.

38:50 CONSTABLE PEPEN, FOR YOUR

38:52 LEADERSHIP ON THIS TOPIC AND

38:53 FOR INCLUDING ME AS A

38:54 CO-SPONSOR ON THIS MATTER.

38:55 I'M REALLY HAPPY TO THAT.

38:56 WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION

38:58 THIS AFTERNOON.

39:00 .

39:00 UM.

39:00 SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, UM, THE

39:02 MAYOR COMMITTED TO ESTABLISH

39:04 A311 CATEGORY ON BLOCK BIKE

39:06 LANES.

39:07 UM, AND WE'RE WONDERING WHEN

39:09 THAT WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED.

39:11 LEE, WE CHECKED EARLIER TODAY

39:12 AND IT'S NOT CURRENTLY UH, IN

39:14 THE LIST OF PARKING THINGS.

39:17 WELL, A FEW HOURS A FEW HOURS

39:19 AGO.

39:20 UH, SO CURRENTLY THE ONLY

39:22 RELEVANT OPTIONS ARE ILLEGAL

39:23 PARKING OR ILLEGALLY BLOCKED

39:24 SIDEWALK.

39:25 NEITHER OF THESE ARE SPECIFIC

39:26 TO BIKE LANES WHICH IS MAYBE

39:28 WHY YOU KNOW, UM, THINGS THAT

39:33 ARE BLOCKING BLOCKED BY THINGS

39:35 OTHER THAN PARKED CARS.

39:36 IS THERE ANY ANY ANY UPDATE ON

39:38 THAT INITIATIVE.

39:40 THAT.

39:40 WASN'T UPDATED WITHIN THE LAST

39:41 WEEK?

39:41 WE CAN MOVE BACK TO YOU ON

39:42 WEDNESDAY.

39:43 OKAY.

39:43 UM THE OTHER THE OTHER ISSUE

39:45 UM THERE'S LOTS I HAVE A LOT

39:47 OF QUESTIONS THEN I REALIZE I'M

39:48 SHORT I DON'T HAVE A LOT

39:50 OF TIME BUT UM, ONE OF THE BIG

39:52 ISSUES THAT WE HEAR FROM OUR

39:54 CONSTITUENTS IS, UM, ABOUT WHAT

39:57 I WOULD CALL PROBLEM PROPERTIES

39:58 .

39:59 HOW DO BPD DEAL WITH SPECIFIC

40:01 PROBLEM PROPERTIES THAT

40:03 CONTINUE TO GENERATE ILLEGAL

40:04 PARKING ACTIVITY?

40:05 FOR EXAMPLE, THERE'S A LARGE

40:07 CAR DEALERSHIP AND GARAGE IN MY

40:09 DISTRICT THAT IS REGULARLY

40:11 PARKING CARS ILLEGALLY BLOCKING

40:13 TRAFFIC ON SIDEWALKS.

40:14 AND DOES THE BTD HAVE A WAY TO

40:17 DEAL WITH THESE SITUATIONS?

40:19 I DON'T WANT TO NAME NAMES BUT

40:20 IT'S A VERY SIGNIFICANT AND

40:22 VERY LUCRATIVE CAR DEALERSHIP

40:24 AND HAVE.

40:26 UH SO I THINK THAT IS A VERY

40:27 GOOD.

40:28 EXAMPLE OF WHERE THERE'S

40:30 ENFORCEMENT AS A LEVER.

40:30 UM, BUT UH, IN SOME PLACES IT'S

40:33 NOT JUST ENFORCEMENT ALONE

40:33 THERE MAY BE ENGAGING OF A UH

40:35 SPECIFIC PROPERTY OWNER OR AND

40:38 OR AN ADJUSTMENT OF.

40:39 THE DESIGN.

40:40 OF THE ROAD IN THAT LOCATION

40:41 OR THE CURB RULES IN THAT

40:42 LOCATION THAT MAY NOT THIS MAY

40:44 OR MAY NOT BE RELEVANT TO THE

40:45 SPECIFIC INSTANCE ON COM THAT

40:46 YOU MENTIONED.

40:47 BUT THIS IS WHY.

40:49 IN COMBINATION WITH OUR

40:50 ENFORCEMENT WORK, A LOT OF THE

40:51 WORK THAT UH, THE

40:52 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IS

40:53 DOING IN COLLABORATION THE

40:54 DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION.

40:55 TECHNOLOGY IS TO.

40:56 LOOK AT HOW WE UPDATE AND

40:57 ADJUST OUR CURB RULES SO THAT

40:59 WE CAN ACTUALLY.

40:59 MEET THE AREA NEEDS.

41:00 AND I, I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT WE

41:03 DON'T HAVE A TOO BIG TO TICKET

41:04 SORT OF SITUATION HERE AND THAT

41:06 THE YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE

41:07 THERE ARE VERY REPUTABLE AND

41:09 BIG BUSINESS THAT THEY JUST

41:12 FLOUT THE RULES.

41:13 IT'S REALLY NOT FAIR TO THE

41:14 REST OF US IN TERMS OF WHAT

41:15 WHAT'S ENFORCED NOT UM WE'VE

41:19 ALSO BEEN IN CONVERSATIONS WITH

41:20 BIKE ADVOCATES AND UM, A SENSE

41:22 THAT THEY'RE MORE OR LESS GIVEN

41:25 UP ON THE 311 UM OPTION TO

41:28 REPORT UH, DIFFICULTIES WITH

41:30 BIKE LANES.

41:31 UM, AND THEY'RE TURNING TO

41:33 ALTERNATIVE SOURCES TO TRACK

41:34 FOR BLOCKED LANES IN THE

41:37 STREETS CABINET USING THE

41:39 INDEPENDENTLY CORRECTED DATA

41:41 THAT'S COMING IN FROM THE BIKE

41:42 BUREAU DOES IT IS IS THAT

41:44 USABLE DATA FOR YOU THAT THAT

41:46 HELPFUL?

41:47 UH YEAH.

41:47 SO BROADLY WE.

41:48 ARE ALWAYS INTERESTED

41:49 REGARDLESS OF THE CHANNEL

41:51 OF WHERE PEOPLE ARE SEEING

41:52 THINGS IN OUR CITY SO THAT WE

41:53 CAN UNDERSTAND AS AS JOHN

41:54 DISCUSSED THE HOTSPOTS THERE

41:55 ARE SOME UH SLIGHTLY IN THE

41:58 WEEDS.

41:58 OF LIKE.

41:58 TECHNICAL INTEGRATION.

41:59 PIECES ASSOCIATED WITH.

42:01 UM HOW OUR THREE AND ONE SYSTEM

42:03 INTEGRATES WITH APPS OUTSIDE

42:05 OF THE CITY UH IN GENERAL THAT

42:06 WE STILL NEED TO.

42:06 WORK THROUGH.

42:07 UM BUT IN GENERAL WE ARE VERY

42:10 INTERESTED IN SORT OF REPORTS

42:11 REGARDLESS OF HOW THEY COME IN,

42:12 AS LONG AS THEY CAN COME INTO

42:13 OUR SYSTEM IN A WAY THAT'S

42:14 USABLE FOR OUR PARK ENFORCEMENT

42:15 TEAM.

42:16 OKAY.

42:17 AND THEN UM, IN JUNE OF THIS

42:20 YEAR I SENT A LETTER INTO THE

42:22 STREETS ABOUT REQUESTING AN

42:24 IMMEDIATE, UH, INSTANT

42:26 REINSTALLATION OF THE BARRIERS

42:27 ALONG EXISTING BIKE LANES IN

42:29 WESTERN OF NORTH BEACON AND

42:30 CAMBRIDGE STREET IN ALLSTON AND

42:32 BRIGHTON.

42:34 UM AND WHAT IS THE PLAN I HAVE

42:35 YET TO RECEIVE LIKE A

42:36 DEFINITIVE ANSWER TO THE

42:37 QUESTION LIKE WHAT IS THE PLAN

42:39 AND AND UH, WHEN I MIGHT EXPECT

42:43 TO SEE THOSE PROTECTIVE

42:44 BARRIERS REINSTATED.

42:46 I'M SURE APPRECIATE BOTH YOU

42:47 AND COUNCILOR DURKIN'S ARE

42:48 RAISING THE.

42:48 THE ENGINEERING COMPONENTS

42:49 OF THIS.

42:50 SO WE DO EXPECT WESTERN AV

42:51 WILL.

42:52 BE UM.

42:53 WILL BE REINSTALLED UM THIS

42:55 MONTH AS UH.

42:57 ESSENTIALLY LOOKING AT THAT

42:58 STRETCH UH FROM HARVARD TO THE

42:59 BIRMINGHAM UH IN LINE WITH WHAT

43:01 WAS UM ESSENTIALLY WHAT WAS

43:03 PREVIOUSLY THERE AND THEN

43:04 HAVING TO WORK ON SOME OF THE

43:05 OTHER LOCATIONS THAT YOU'VE

43:06 IDENTIFIED.

43:08 UM, THE OTHER THING UM, YOU

43:11 KNOW, WE DID THE ALLSTON RIGHT

43:14 MOBILITY STUDY IN 2018.

43:17 SO WHILE GOAL ALMOST TEN YEARS

43:19 UH AND WE LOOKED AT ALL SORTS

43:21 OF INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS

43:22 THAT COULD BE IMPLEMENTED TO

43:23 PREVENT CARS BLOCKING SIDEWALKS

43:25 ETC. AND ONE OF THE ONE OF THE

43:28 THINGS THAT OTHER CITIES ARE

43:29 USING IS LIKE A NEW YORKER

43:30 USING CURB EXTENSIONS OR RAISED

43:32 INTERSECTIONS.

43:33 UM IS THERE IS THERE ANY

43:35 THOUGHT BEEN GIVEN TO USING

43:37 THOSE MAKING THAT MORE MORE

43:39 COMMON THAT THAT PRACTICE OR

43:40 THAT THAT INFRASTRUCTURE.

43:45 UM INSTALLATION BE USED MORE

43:47 FREQUENTLY IN BOSTON TO SORT

43:50 OF MAKE IT MORE DIFFICULT FOR

43:51 THESE INFRINGEMENTS TO HAPPEN

43:53 IN THE FIRST PLACE?

43:54 UH, YES.

43:54 SO I THINK THAT REALLY AS A

43:56 COMPANION TO ANY OF THE

43:56 ENFORCEMENT REALLY IS THE

43:57 ENGINEERING CHANGES WE CAN MAKE

43:58 TO OUR STREET THAT IS SOMETHING

44:00 WE ARE LOOKING TO INTEGRATE

44:01 MUCH MORE INTO OUR GENERAL

44:03 RESURFACING PROGRAM TO THINK

44:04 ABOUT AS WE.

44:05 RESURFACE THE ROADWAY, WHERE.

44:06 DO WE THINK ABOUT ADDITIONAL

44:07 DAYLIGHTING AND HOW DO WE NOT

44:09 JUST THINK ABOUT PROTECTION

44:10 CHANGES AND MARKINGS BUT OTHER

44:11 WAYS IN WHICH WE CAN DETER

44:12 ILLEGAL PARKING?

44:13 UH, AT PLACES WHETHER IT IS AT

44:16 A CORNER OR UH, OR OTHERWISE

44:18 ACROSS OUR CITY.

44:18 YEAH.

44:18 AND THE CHROME CUT.

44:21 SO UM I ALSO WONDER AS HOW OUR

44:23 STREETS COORDINATING WITH THE

44:24 PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO ENSURE

44:25 THAT NEW ARTICULATED

44:27 DEVELOPMENTS ARE DESIGNED TO

44:28 MITIGATE SUCH ISSUES AS PICK UP

44:30 AND DROP OFF ACTIVITY THAT

44:31 RESULT IN ILLEGAL PARKING.

44:33 I THINK THE ONE THAT CAUSES THE

44:35 MOST TROUBLE IN ALLSTON

44:36 BRIGHTON IS PROBABLY TRADER

44:38 JOE'S AND AND IN BARRY'S CORNER

44:41 IS A BIG BIG PROBLEM.

44:43 UM THE BIKE LANE HAS BEEN

44:44 REMOVED COMPLETELY BUT IT WAS

44:46 IT WAS A IT WAS A ZONE OVER

44:49 THERE.

44:49 IT WAS LIKE WACKY RACERS LIKE

44:51 BICYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS HAVE

44:53 NO IDEA.

44:53 AND THEN WE HAD JUST.

44:55 ONE.

44:55 CONCURRENT SIGNALING AS WELL.

44:56 SO IT WAS A REALLY DIFFICULT

44:58 SITUATION.

44:58 I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU A

45:00 CHANCE TO RESPOND.

45:01 I JUST SORT OF GO AROUND THIS

45:02 LIKE GETTING THE CURB RULES

45:04 RIGHT IS SO FUNDAMENTAL TO

45:05 ADDRESSING A LOT OF THIS AND

45:07 THAT IS WHY WE'RE VERY

45:08 FORTUNATE TO HAVE UH, ME AND

45:09 HER TEAM FOCUSED A LOT ON THAT

45:11 SPECIFIC WORK ETHIC.

45:12 AND TO YOUR POINT ABOUT AS NEW

45:13 DEVELOPMENT COMES IN, WHAT SORT

45:15 OF CURVEBALLS ARE GOING TO BE.

45:16 NEEDED TO BE ABLE.

45:17 TO SUPPORT.

45:18 UH.

45:19 BUSINESSES, THEIR RESIDENTS

45:20 THERE AND CONSEQUENTLY REDUCE

45:21 THE.

45:22 LIKELIHOOD OF ANY.

45:23 ILLEGAL THANK YOU AND I

45:24 APPRECIATE THEM.

45:24 I'M OUT OF TIME SO THANK YOU.

45:27 THANK YOU.

45:28 UM, AND SORRY JUST WITH THE

45:30 TIMING WE'RE NOT EVERYONE WON'T

45:31 GET.

45:32 THROUGH THEIR QUESTIONS IF I

45:33 DON'T, UH, MAKE SURE THAT I

45:34 KEEP EVERYONE.

45:36 SO COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE, YOU

45:37 HAVE THE FLOOR AND WE'VE BEEN

45:38 JOINED BY COUNCILOR ENRIQUE

45:39 PEPEN.

45:40 I'M GONNA TRY TO GO AS FAST

45:40 AS I CAN WITH MY QUESTIONS.

45:41 SO THANK YOU ALL OF YOU FOR ALL

45:42 THE.

45:42 INCREDIBLE WORK YOU DO.

45:44 I KNOW IT'S CHALLENGING AND I

45:45 KNOW, UM, THAT WE WANT THINGS

45:47 TO HAPPEN A LOT FASTER.

45:48 UM, I DO WANT TO STATE THAT

45:52 THERE DEFINITELY JUST NEEDS TO

45:53 BE A LOT MORE DAYLIGHTING AND

45:55 I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH

45:56 YOU, CHIEF LIKE ACROSS THE CITY

45:59 THERE'S SO MANY DANGEROUS

46:00 PLACES WHERE LIKE I CAN'T SEE

46:03 WHAT'S HAPPENING BECAUSE WE

46:05 ALLOW CARS TO PARK THERE AND SO

46:08 IF THERE'S A CHARGE TO ANYONE

46:10 IT'S LIKE CAN WE GO AND SEE

46:12 WHERE WE NEED TO DO MORE

46:14 DAYLIGHTING TO PROTECT LIKE I

46:16 CANNOT EVERY TIME I LEAVE MY

46:19 PARENTS STREET I FEEL LIKE I'M

46:20 ABOUT TO GET INTO A CAR

46:21 ACCIDENT BECAUSE I CAN'T SEE

46:22 WHAT'S HAPPENING ON MY LEFT

46:23 HAND SIDE.

46:24 AND SO I THINK WE DEFINITELY

46:26 NEED TO DO MORE DAYLIGHTING

46:27 BECAUSE IT'S NOT SAFE FOR

46:29 ANYONE AND THE DAYLIGHTING

46:30 NEEDS TO BE MORE THAN JUST

46:32 PAINT, RIGHT?

46:32 AND THEN WE NEED PHYSICAL

46:33 STRUCTURES.

46:34 WHICH LED US TO MY NEXT

46:35 QUESTION OF LIKE WHEN IT COMES

46:37 TO BIKE LANES ARE THERE WHAT

46:41 GOES BEHIND THE DECISION

46:43 OF LIKE WHEN WE PROTECT A BIKE

46:44 LANE AND WHEN WE BELIEVE THAT

46:46 IT'S SUFFICIENT FOR THERE NOT

46:48 TO ACTUALLY BE PHYSICAL

46:49 PROTECTIONS LIKE WHAT GOES INTO

46:50 THAT THINKING FOR SURE.

46:52 UM.

46:52 SO SORT OF THE FIRST.

46:54 ONE ON YOUR FIRST POINT ON

46:55 DAYLIGHTING.

46:56 THAT IS LIKE AROUND THE CITY

46:57 BECAUSE LIKE I YOU KNOW, AS AN

46:59 AT LARGE COUNCILOR I, I

47:00 LITERALLY I MEAN EVERY

47:01 NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S AND IT'S

47:03 REALLY REALLY BAD SO.

47:05 UM SO.

47:06 THAT IS SOMETHING WHICH.

47:08 WE ARE HERE LOUD AND CLEAR AND

47:09 ONE OF THE HOW DO WE ACTUALLY

47:10 TAKE THAT HOW DO WE SCALE THAT

47:12 UP OBVIOUSLY SOMETHING WHICH

47:12 THE CITY HAS GENERALLY BEEN

47:13 DOING AND.

47:14 DO IT IN A WAY WHICH.

47:15 HAS SOME SORT OF PHYSICAL

47:16 CHANGE UH, TO.

47:18 THE STREET THAT IS ENDURING UM

47:20 DOESN'T HURT.

47:21 UM AND I THINK IT'S WHY WE'VE

47:22 BEEN LOOKING AT DIFFERENT TYPES

47:23 OF MATERIALS.

47:24 UM.

47:25 UH, ZACH WAS THAT.

47:26 UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN REFERENCED

47:28 UH.

47:29 THE.

47:29 UH, PRECAST RECAST IN PLACE AS

47:31 SORT OF DIFFERENT WAYS IN WHICH

47:31 WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UH, ENSURE

47:34 A HIGHER LEVEL OF PROTECTION

47:35 OVER TIME.

47:36 UM, TO YOUR POINT AROUND UH

47:37 AROUND BIKE LANES.

47:38 UH, WE ARE.

47:40 ALWAYS LOOKING.

47:40 TO THINK ABOUT HOW CAN WE

47:42 ACTUALLY ENSURE.

47:43 UM.

47:44 PROTECTION FOR THE CYCLISTS?

47:45 UM, THAT IS OFTEN WHERE.

47:47 WE HAVE THE SPACE AVAILABLE

47:48 LOOKING AT UH BIKE LANES THAT

47:49 ARE PARKING PROTECTED.

47:50 OBVIOUSLY AS PART.

47:51 OF LONGER TERM CAPITAL PROJECTS

47:52 LOOKING AT THINGS THAT ARE

47:53 CYCLE TRACK, SIDEWALK PARADE,

47:54 HIGH QUALITY BIKE PATHS IS HOW

47:56 WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO BUILD IN

47:57 SOME LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT THE

47:58 CITY.

47:59 THOSE TEND TO TAKE MORE TIME

48:01 AND HAVE THE.

48:02 INTENSIVE UM.

48:03 SO YOU KNOW, MORE CAPITAL.

48:04 IT'S LIKE CAPITAL INTENSIVE I'M

48:06 SORRY CAPITAL INTENSIVE.

48:07 CAN YOU SPEAK CLOSER TO THE

48:08 MICROPHONE?

48:08 YES.

48:09 MY APOLOGIES.

48:09 YEAH.

48:10 UM MORE CAPITAL INTENSIVE.

48:11 UM SO IT.

48:13 REALLY A LOT OF THE WORK WHICH

48:14 WE ARE DOING IN.

48:14 THE.

48:15 IN THE NEAR TERM IS WHERE WE

48:16 HAVE SPACE TO THINK ABOUT.

48:17 MOVING PARKING.

48:18 UM, UH, OUT FROM THE CURB TO BE

48:21 ABLE TO CREATE PARKING

48:21 PROTECTED BIKE LANES AND ALLOW

48:23 FOR UH THE PARKED CARS

48:24 THEMSELVES PROVIDE A DEGREE

48:25 OF PHYSICAL PROTECTION IS

48:27 OBVIOUSLY NOT UH, POSSIBLE IN A

48:30 NUMBER OF LOCATIONS IN OUR CITY

48:31 AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN ABLE

48:32 TO USE PRECAST LIKE WHAT WE'VE

48:34 PUT IN PLACE ON STATE STREET

48:35 CAST IN PLACE CONCRETE AS WE

48:36 WERE PUTTING ON WASHINGTON

48:37 STREET AND WE'VE PUT IN ON

48:39 CONGRESS STREET UH, FLEX POST

48:41 AS WE WERE RESTORING ON WESTERN

48:42 AVE SO LOOKING AT SORT OF OTHER

48:43 SORT OF PHYSICAL.

48:46 UM UH BARRIERS OF VARYING

48:47 DEGREES TO PROVIDE A DEGREE

48:49 OF SEPARATION UH, AND SAFETY

48:50 FOR UH FROM AROUND THE ROAD

48:52 MOST MOST NOTABLY UH THE

48:53 CYCLISTS.

48:53 AND ARE THE FLEX POSE THE LEAST

48:57 UM PERMANENT OF THE PHYSICAL

48:59 BARRIERS THAT WE CAN PUT IN

49:01 PLACE.

49:02 CERTAINLY IN COMPARISON TO

49:03 SOMETHING LIKE A PRECAST

49:04 CONCRETE.

49:05 OR UM OR UH OR CAST IN PLACE

49:07 STRUCTURES UM OR CERTAINLY A

49:09 CYCLE TRACK.

49:10 UM THERE ARE A NUMBER OF THINGS

49:11 WHICH ARE QUICKER FOR US TO

49:13 INSTALL UM A FLEX POST TO BE

49:15 ONE EXAMPLE.

49:16 THOSE ARE THE ZEBRA CIRCLES

49:17 WHICH WE ALSO HAVE BEEN USING

49:19 ARE SORT OF UH ANOTHER EXAMPLE

49:20 OF.

49:21 ARE THERE REASONS WHY LIKE SO

49:23 FOR EXAMPLE COME AND HIGHWAY

49:24 WHEN CURRENT HIGHWAY

49:25 TRANSITIONS INTO AMERICAN

49:26 LEGION HIGHWAY THERE ARE FLEX

49:27 POSTS THEY'VE ALL BEEN LIKE

49:29 DECIMATED ESSENTIALLY.

49:30 UM BUT OTHER REASONS WHY YOU

49:33 MAKE THE DETERMINATION OTHER

49:34 THAN LIKE COST EFFECTIVENESS OR

49:35 EFFICIENCY WHY IN ONE PLACE

49:37 LIKE A FLEX POST IS A BETTER

49:39 DESIGN THEN UH THEN AN

49:41 ALTERNATIVE A MORE PERMANENT

49:42 STRUCTURE.

49:43 AND THE TEAM LOOKS AT SORT OF A

49:44 VARIETY OF DIFFERENT FACTORS.

49:45 I CAN.

49:46 I CAN LOOK AT THAT SORT

49:47 OF STRETCHED FAIRWAY TO MADISON

49:48 SQUARE ABOUT WHAT WHAT THE WHY

49:50 THE CHOICE WAS WHAT IT WAS IN

49:51 THAT STRETCH.

49:52 UH AND ALSO WHAT THE MARIEL DO

49:53 UH RESTORE UH NOW THAT TERM

49:56 THAT NOW THAT THE CAPITAL

49:57 PROJECT IS LARGELY COMPLETE IN

49:58 ADVANCE OF THE WINTER.

49:59 OKAY.

50:00 THANK YOU.

50:00 UM, MY NEXT QUESTIONS ARE, UH,

50:02 ABOUT RAISED CROSSWALKS.

50:04 SAME QUESTION, SAME DEAL.

50:06 LIKE WHEN LIKE WHAT IS THE

50:07 DESIGN?

50:07 ARE WE MAKING IT A DESIGN

50:09 DECISION NOW?

50:10 SO I'LL SAY THIS TWO AS A

50:13 DRIVER RIGHT DRIVE ALL THAT

50:15 STUFF I WANT BETTER CROSSWALKS

50:17 THAT MAKE IT EASIER FOR ME TO

50:19 SEE AS A DRIVER THAT THERE'S

50:21 SOMEONE WHO'S ATTEMPTING TO

50:23 CROSS THE STREET.

50:23 YEAH.

50:24 UM AND RAISED CROSSWALKS

50:25 LIGHT LIT CROSSWALKS LIKE WE

50:27 NEED SO LIKE ARE WE DESIGNING

50:29 ANY CROSSWALKS IN THE FUTURE

50:31 THAT AREN'T SORT OF WITH LIGHTS

50:34 OR RAISED BECAUSE I THINK WE

50:36 SHOULD NOT DO THAT.

50:37 I THINK IT'S REALLY HARD.

50:37 I THINK THERE'S A STRETCH ON

50:39 COLUMBUS.

50:39 UH, RIGHT WHERE NORTHEASTERN IS

50:41 AT COLUMBUS IT'S LIKE COLUMBUS

50:42 AND MY OFF WHENEVER I'M

50:44 DRIVING DOWN THAT I FEEL SO

50:45 BADLY FOR THE STUDENTS BECAUSE

50:47 AGAIN, DAYLIGHTING COULD HELP

50:48 WITH THAT AS WELL.

50:49 THE ORANGE SHOULDN'T PARK YOU.

50:51 IT'S REALLY HARD TO SEE THE

50:53 NORTHEASTERN OR WHOEVER

50:54 STUDENTS IN THE AREA THAT ARE

50:55 CROSSING THE STREET AND SO JUST

50:57 THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO

50:58 AND LIKE I WOULD PREFER IF THE

51:00 DESIGN WAS GOING FORWARD WE

51:02 ONLY ARE PUTTING IN CROSSWALKS

51:03 THAT HAVE SOMETHING MORE TO

51:04 THEM THAN JUST WHITE PAINT ON

51:06 THE STREET.

51:08 UM SO THE PAIR OF THINGS ON ON

51:10 THAT.

51:10 CERTAINLY STRONGLY.

51:11 AGREE WITH YOU ABOUT THE

51:12 VALUE OF UH OF RAISED

51:13 CROSSWALKS.

51:13 THAT IS SOMETHING WHICH UH

51:15 WHERE WE CAN WE ARE.

51:16 LOOKING TO.

51:17 PUT IN PLACE ONE OF THE

51:18 THINGS THAT BY RAISING THE

51:20 CROSSWALK THAT YOU OFTEN DO IS

51:21 YOU CREATE SOME DRAINAGE

51:22 CHALLENGES ON THE STREET SO IT

51:23 BECOMES A MORE OF A CAPITAL

51:24 INTENSIVE AND TIME INTENSIVE UM

51:26 PROJECT, WHICH IS WHY IT IS

51:28 HARDER FOR US TO DO THAT UM,

51:29 LOOKING FOR EXAMPLE AT UM WHERE

51:31 WE'RE LOOKING TO DO THAT ARE A

51:33 COUPLE OF INTERSECTIONS ALONG

51:33 HYDE PARK AVE NEAR FOREST HILLS

51:35 .

51:35 UM, IT BECOMES A MORE

51:37 SIGNIFICANT ENGINEERING PROJECT

51:38 .

51:39 RAISE CROSSWALKS, LIGHTS.

51:40 I MEAN YOU TELL ME MY TIME

51:41 IS UP.

51:41 THANK YOU TO YOU.

51:42 THANKS.

51:42 THE ADVOCATES I DEFER TO YOU

51:44 BUT LIKE WE NEED JUST WE NEED

51:45 SOMETHING MORE ON OUR

51:46 CROSSWALKS.

51:46 WELL.

51:47 THANK YOU, COUNCILOR LUCIA

51:48 AND COUNCILOR FITZGERALD YOU

51:50 HAVE SIX MINUTES.

51:51 THANK YOU CHAIR AND THANK YOU,

51:53 PANEL, UH, FOR BEING HERE WITH

51:55 US TODAY.

51:55 UH, A DIFFICULT TASK, RIGHT?

51:57 I MEAN, WE'RE TRYING TO

51:59 LEGISLATE HUMAN BEHAVIOR IS A,

52:02 UH, A DIFFICULT TASK AND PEOPLE

52:04 ARE SORT OF UH I THINK EVEN IN

52:06 SOME WAYS I THINK PEOPLE EVEN

52:07 BEING MORE RETALIATORY

52:09 RETALIATORY, UH, BY WANTING TO

52:12 PARK IN BIKE LANES TO ALMOST

52:13 PROVE THEIR POINT UH, IF THEY

52:15 WERE AGAINST IT IN THE FIRST

52:17 PLACE AND IT'S LIKE THAT'S JUST

52:18 NOT HOW WE SHOULD DO IT.

52:19 BUT UM, I FEEL BAD.

52:21 I SAW A LOT OF GREAT QUESTIONS

52:22 AND I GOT A LOT OF THEM

52:23 ANSWERED.

52:24 SO I GUESS MORE JUST A COMMENT

52:25 AND THEN I'LL FOLLOW UP BUT I

52:26 JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I

52:27 UNDERSTAND SO WE HAVE THE THE

52:29 WAYS WE'RE TACKLING THIS.

52:30 WE HAVE THE 311 APP THAT JUST

52:31 WENT THAT JUST HAS THE CATEGORY

52:32 NOW OF BLOCKED CROSSWALKS AND

52:34 AND UH BIKE LANES THAT JUST

52:35 WENT LIVE LAST WEEK SO THAT'S

52:37 AWESOME.

52:38 UM AND WE HAVE JOHN CORRECT

52:40 ME WE HAVE AN INCREASE IN BPD

52:41 ENFORCEMENT.

52:42 I KNOW LAST TIME WE SPOKE YOU

52:43 TALKED ABOUT HOW THERE WAS NEW

52:45 HIRES TO INCREASE BPD

52:46 ENFORCEMENT AND THAT HAS

52:47 ALLOWED US TO GET INTO OTHER

52:49 PLACES THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE

52:50 BEEN AND COVERED IN PAST

52:52 HISTORY.

52:53 AND SO I DON'T WANT TO SEEM

52:56 HYPOCRITICAL BECAUSE I KNOW I

52:57 ALSO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH

52:58 ALL OF YOU ABOUT THE CALLS THAT

53:00 WE GET TO THE OFFICE.

53:01 FROM PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THEIR

53:03 OWN HOME AND IT'S HAPPENED TO

53:04 MY MYSELF PERSONALLY WHERE

53:06 YOU'RE HOME AND YOU GET A

53:07 TICKET ON YOUR CAR IN FRONT

53:08 OF YOUR OWN HOUSE AND YOU'RE

53:09 SAYING I DON'T THINK I'M THE

53:11 PRIORITY HERE, RIGHT?

53:12 LIKE THERE ARE THERE ARE OTHER

53:14 PLACES WHY IT WAS BEAT COMING

53:15 DOWN A SIDE RESIDENTIAL STREET

53:17 AND GRANTED I DESIRE I DESERVE

53:19 THE TICKET I PAID IT IT WAS IT

53:21 WAS WHAT IT WAS.

53:21 I HAD AN EXPIRED THING.

53:22 I GOT THREE KIDS.

53:23 I DIDN'T GET TO DO IT ON TIME

53:25 BUT UM I'M SORT OF THINKING

53:28 OF OTHER EXAMPLES AND I HOPE

53:29 THIS IS WHY I DON'T WANNA BE

53:30 HYPOCRITICAL AND WHAT I ASK THE

53:31 WAY THAT WE USE THIS DATA AND

53:33 HOW WE ENFORCEMENT BECAUSE WE

53:34 SHOULD HAVE MORE UM UH

53:38 ENFORCEMENT WE SHOULD BE USING

53:39 THE TOOLS MORE BUT I DO WANT TO

53:40 BE WARY AND I JUST CAUTION

53:42 ABOUT WHERE WE DO THAT AND I

53:43 HOPE WE USE THE DATA FROM THE

53:45 311 AND USING ALL THE RELEASE

53:47 FROM DISTRICT AND OUTLINED

53:49 COUNCILORS HERE WHEN WE TALK TO

53:50 YOU GUYS UM, BECAUSE I SIT AT

53:52 UH WHEN I CUT TO UH WHEN I COME

53:54 INTO THE CITY AND I COME

53:56 THROUGH SOUTHIE AT UH, LEAST

53:58 BROADWAY AND THERE'S THE

53:59 DONKEYS AND THE STARBUCKS RIGHT

54:00 THERE AND EVERYONE DOUBLE

54:02 PARKS.

54:02 I KNOW IT USED TO BE

54:04 HISTORICALLY FINE TO DOUBLE

54:05 PARK IN SOUTHIE, BUT IT'S YOU

54:06 KNOW, THINGS HAVE CHANGED NOW

54:08 AND I SIT THERE AND I HAVE TO

54:10 WADE THROUGH 2 OR 3 LIGHT

54:11 CYCLES BECAUSE A COUPLE OF KIDS

54:13 WANT TO GET THEIR LATTE OR

54:14 WHATEVER.

54:15 RIGHT?

54:15 AND IT ALWAYS JUST IT JUST

54:16 BOILS MY BLOOD THAT THIS AND

54:18 EVERY SINGLE DAY 4 OR 5 GUYS

54:19 ALL LINED UP THERE AND EVERYONE

54:21 ELSE HAS TO JAM INTO 2 TO 1

54:23 LANE TO TO TO TO ALLOW FOR THIS

54:25 TO HAPPEN.

54:26 AND SO I JUST THINK ABOUT THAT

54:28 COMPARISON OF THE FOLKS I SAID

54:31 LIKE I'VE GOTTEN CALLS LIKE

54:32 JOHN MY BUMPER WAS HANGING OVER

54:34 MY DRIVEWAY AND I GOT TICKETED

54:35 .

54:35 I'VE LIVED HERE FOR 45 YEARS.

54:37 I HAVE NEVER GOT A TICKET IN MY

54:38 LIFE AND SO I JUST WANT TO BE

54:40 MINDFUL OF THE WAY WE'RE USING

54:41 THAT EXPANDED FORCE AND I THINK

54:43 IT'S GOOD THAT WE HAVE THEM

54:45 BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF UH I

54:46 THINK UH, MONEY TO BE MADE FOR

54:48 THE CITY THAT WE COULD VERY

54:49 MUCH USE UM, THROUGH THIS

54:52 ENFORCEMENT BUT I JUST WANNA BE

54:53 WARY OF WHERE WE DEPLOY IT.

54:55 AND SO I HOPE THAT, UM, WE'LL

54:56 WORK WITH YOU GUYS ON THAT.

54:58 UM, I GUESS MY ONLY QUESTION

54:59 IS, UH, MR.

55:00 I WAS GOOD UH, CHIEF, I KNOW,

55:02 UH, THERE'S RECOMMENDATIONS

55:03 FROM A WORKING GROUP AND I

55:06 DON'T THINK THAT THEY'RE NOT IN

55:07 HERE.

55:08 RIGHT.

55:08 BUT I THINK THEY'RE STILL WHERE

55:10 I I JUST WONDER IF THERE'S AN

55:11 UPDATED TIMELINE ON

55:13 RECOMMENDATIONS BECAUSE IF I

55:14 REMEMBER READING SOMETHING A

55:15 WHILE AGO, UM, IT WAS LIKE

55:17 EARLY FALL THERE'LL BE, YOU

55:18 KNOW, MORE RECOMMENDATIONS

55:19 COMING FOR THE WORK AND THERE

55:20 WAS A QUOTE OF YOURS I JUST

55:21 DIDN'T KNOW IF WE HAVE AN

55:22 UPDATED TIMELINE ON THAT.

55:23 SURE.

55:23 OVERALL CURB MANAGEMENT UH.

55:25 IT WAS THAT YEAH, I THINK THAT

55:26 WAS REALLY TOO.

55:27 IT USER I'VE ACTUALLY TOUCHED

55:28 ON MANY OF THE THINGS WHICH ARE

55:29 WHICH ARE PART OF THIS AND UH

55:31 POLICIES ENSURING THAT WE ARE

55:34 UM STAFFING AND SUPPORTING OUR

55:35 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AS

55:36 PART OF ENSURING THAT WE'RE

55:37 ACTUALLY UM EQUIPPING AND

55:38 EMPOWERING THEM WITH THE

55:40 INFORMATION TO BE MAXIMALLY IN

55:42 THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT

55:43 TIME.

55:44 UM, BUT IT IS ALSO ABOUT ALL

55:45 THOSE COMPANION COMPONENTS IN

55:47 ADDITION TO ENFORCEMENT AND

55:48 THAT IS UM AS UH AS SOME OF THE

55:51 OTHER UH UH, SORT OF COUNCILORS

55:53 OF I'VE SPOKEN TO HOW HOW DO WE

55:56 USE THIS DATA ON REPEAT

55:57 LOCATIONS OF ENFORCEMENT

55:58 CHALLENGES TO EITHER ADJUST THE

55:59 CURB RULES POTENTIALLY SORT

56:01 OF THIS BROADWAY AS AS AN

56:03 EXAMPLE UM, UH AND MAKE

56:06 ENGINEERING CHANGES TO THE

56:07 ROADWAY TO TO REDUCE THE

56:08 LIKELIHOOD OF ANY ILLEGAL

56:10 PARKING.

56:10 IT IS SORT OF THOSE THREE

56:11 PIECES THAT WE LOOKING TO DO IN

56:13 TANDEM.

56:13 SOME OF THAT I THINK WILL BE

56:15 SUPPORTED BY SOME OF THE WORK

56:16 WE'RE TRYING TO DO.

56:17 UM, AS COUNCILORS ARE GOING TO

56:18 MENTION AT THE TOP OF THINKING

56:20 ABOUT HOW WE CAN PROVIDE OUR

56:21 PARKING ENFORCEMENT TEAM WITH

56:22 SOME ADDITIONAL TOOLS SUCH AS

56:24 UH, THE ABILITY TO USE

56:26 AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT WHERE

56:27 APPROPRIATE.

56:27 GREAT.

56:28 UM, THAT'S REALLY ALL I

56:30 HAVE.

56:31 I KNOW A LOT OF OTHER YOU GUYS

56:31 DID.

56:32 THE OTHER QUESTIONS WERE GREAT

56:33 AND SORT OF ANSWERED EVERYTHING

56:34 I WANTED BUT UM AGAIN, NO,

56:36 YOU'VE GUYS GOT A VERY

56:37 DIFFICULT TASK AND I SORT

56:38 OF THINK THE GENERAL ATTITUDE

56:41 OUT ON THE ROAD THESE DAYS IS

56:43 NOT UP TO PAR ON A UH ON A

56:45 COMMON COURTESY LEVEL.

56:46 AND SO TO TRY AND LEGISLATE

56:47 THAT IS VERY DIFFICULT.

56:48 UM, BUT HOLDING THOSE FOLKS

56:51 ACCOUNTABLE, UH, AND DOING THE

56:53 ENFORCEMENT CAN CERTAINLY BRING

56:54 THAT BACK DOWN.

56:55 SO I APPRECIATE ALL YOU GUYS DO

56:56 WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH

56:57 YOU IN THE FUTURE.

56:57 THANK YOU THANK YOU CHAIR.

56:58 THANK YOU COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

56:59 AND I'M JUST GOING TO USE THE

57:01 REST OF YOUR TIME TO READ THE

57:02 NINE CORRIDORS RANKED FROM THE

57:04 LOUD BICYCLES BIKE BUREAU.

57:06 UM, BECAUSE I DO THINK THIS IS

57:07 HELPFUL FOR CITY UM LEADERS.

57:10 KENMORE SQUARE IS NUMBER ONE AT

57:12 BROOKLINE.

57:12 I'VE COME ALL THAT UM BROOKLINE

57:14 STREET DOWNTOWN CHINATOWN,

57:17 CAMBRIDGE STREET, TREMONT

57:18 STREET AND NAYLAND STREETS,

57:20 LONGWOOD AND FENWAY AT

57:21 BROOKLINE AND LONGWOOD AVE,

57:24 WATERFRONT AT ATLANTIC AVE,

57:26 ALLSTON WESTERN AVE JAMAICA

57:28 PLAIN CENTER STREET, SOUTH END

57:31 MASS AVE WHICH I'M SURE IS PART

57:34 OF MY DISTRICT TO PART

57:35 OF THAT'S IN MY DISTRICT TO UM

57:37 WEST COMMONWEALTH AVE,

57:38 COMMONWEALTH AVE AND SOUTH END

57:41 WASHINGTON STREET.

57:42 UM THESE WERE THE TOP NINE

57:44 CORRIDORS AND OF THE TOP TWO UM

57:47 IT'S A IT'S A 148 AND 132

57:51 INCIDENCES.

57:52 SO UM JUST AS WE ARE THINKING

57:54 ABOUT HOW TO DO OUR UM

57:57 ENFORCEMENT AND HOW TO SEND

57:59 PEOPLE TO THE RIGHT PLACES UM,

58:02 COUNCILOR CULPEPER, YOU HAVE

58:02 THE FLOOR.

58:03 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

58:04 AND THANK YOU FOR HOLDING THIS

58:06 HEARING FROM THIS AND ON

58:08 HEARING MADE A COUPLE

58:09 OF QUESTIONS.

58:10 GOOD TO SEE YOU.

58:12 UM.

58:12 YOU MIGHT WANT TO PUT THE

58:14 MICROPHONE A LITTLE CLOSER.

58:16 GOOD TO SEE YOU.

58:17 UH, CHIEF.

58:18 DEPUTY CHIEF GROVE.

58:20 ,I REMEMBER.

58:22 YOU AS THE ACTING CHIEF.

58:23 YOU KNOW THE WORK YOU DID THERE

58:25 .

58:26 UM.

58:30 AND THEN CHIEF OSGOOD AND,

58:32 UM.

58:33 SEEMS LIKE YOU'RE TRACKING

58:33 ME EVERYWHERE I GO.

58:34 I, YOU KNOW.

58:35 AND, UH.

58:37 YEAH, I A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS

58:39 REGARDING ENFORCEMENT.

58:42 UM, ARE THERE PARTICULAR

58:45 NEIGHBORHOODS OR INTERSECTIONS

58:46 WHERE ENFORCEMENT SHOULD BE

58:47 PRIORITIZED?

58:49 SIR, I JOHN AND THAT CAN

58:51 CERTAINLY SPEAK TO THIS BUT WE

58:53 REALLY ARE VERY FOCUSED ON

58:56 DISPATCHING OUR ENFORCEMENT

58:57 OFFICERS AROUND SAFETY AND AND

58:59 ROUTING OUR OFFICERS IN PLACES

59:00 WHERE WE SEE HIGH INSTANCES

59:02 OF UH OF, YOU KNOW, THROUGH AND

59:04 ON REQUESTS OF THE ALL UM

59:06 ILLEGAL PARKING IN GENERAL, UM,

59:07 AS WELL AS SUPPORTING SOME

59:08 OF THOSE UH CORE COMPONENTS

59:10 OF OUR OVERALL PROGRAM FROM

59:12 ACROSS THE STREET SWEEPING UH

59:13 METER OPERATIONS AND

59:14 OCCUPATIONS.

59:15 YOU WERE TALKING EARLIER

59:16 ABOUT HOW CHALLENGING THE

59:18 POSITIONS ARE.

59:19 UH, THE STAFFING IS THERE

59:21 ENOUGH STAFFING THERE?

59:23 SO I THINK ONE OF THINGS WHICH

59:24 WE'VE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE AND

59:25 WITH A LOT OF CREDIT TO BOTH

59:27 UH, NICK AND JOHN, UH AND A LOT

59:29 OF SUPPORT FROM THE MAYOR IS

59:30 THE UH OVERALL NUMBER

59:31 OF PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

59:32 HAS INCREASED OVER THE LAST

59:34 SEVERAL YEARS.

59:35 BOTH NICK AND JOHN CAN SPEAK

59:36 MORE TO THIS THAN THAN I CAN,

59:38 BUT THAT'S PART OF THE REASON

59:39 WHY WE ARE SEEING AGAIN.

59:41 LAST YEAR 1.1 MILLION TICKETS

59:43 UH WERE ISSUED BY UH BY PARKING

59:44 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS AND WE'RE

59:45 ABOUT 9% UP UH ON THIS FISCAL

59:49 YEAR TODAY AND OF.

59:54 YEAH.

59:55 WE'RE WE'RE.

59:56 IN A.

59:56 YEAR.

59:56 OF OUR.

59:57 HIGHEST STAFFING LEVELS

59:57 RIGHT NOW IN ABOUT ALMOST TEN

59:59 YEARS.

1:00:00 AND THE DELIVERY VEHICLES AND

1:00:03 RISING PICKUPS SEEM TO BE A

1:00:06 MAJOR PROBLEM.

1:00:07 HAVE YOU IDENTIFIED AREAS WHERE

1:00:09 YOU NEED TO, UM, CUT MORE.

1:00:15 UH.

1:00:16 LANES WHERE THE DELIVERY

1:00:18 VEHICLES AND RIDESHARE PICKUPS

1:00:20 TAKE PLACE AND GOING YEAH.

1:00:23 UH YES I THINK THAT IS AND

1:00:25 YEAH, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SPEAK

1:00:26 TO US BUT ADJUSTING THE CURB

1:00:27 RULES PARTICULARLY AROUND

1:00:28 EXACTLY THOSE ISSUES IS

1:00:29 SOMETHING THAT WE ARE VERY

1:00:30 FOCUSED ON.

1:00:31 YEAH I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S

1:00:32 SOMETHING SOME OF YOU WANT TO

1:00:32 ADD THERE.

1:00:33 YEAH I WOULD JUST SAY UM WE ARE

1:00:34 MAKING GREAT PROGRESS.

1:00:35 I'M SORRY WE'RE MAKING GREAT

1:00:36 PROGRESS.

1:00:37 UM, UTILIZING THE DATA THAT

1:00:39 WE'VE BEEN RECEIVING FROM

1:00:40 DELIVERY COMPANIES THANKS TO

1:00:41 THE THE RECENT ORDINANCE YOU

1:00:42 ALL PASSED, UM, THAT IS

1:00:44 SUPPORTING US HERE.

1:00:44 UH, AND WE ARE HOPEFUL TO BE

1:00:46 ABLE TO SHARE OUT SOME OF THOSE

1:00:48 INSIGHTS IN THE VERY NEAR

1:00:49 FUTURE.

1:00:50 UNTIL THROUGH THE RIDE SHARE UH

1:00:53 ,DO THEY ALSO PROVIDE THE CITY

1:00:56 WITH THE DATA AND DO YOU TRACK

1:00:59 THAT DATA OF WHERE RIDES HERE

1:01:01 ARE HAVING.

1:01:01 ISSUES OR NEED ADDITIONAL RIDES

1:01:04 HAIRCUTS?

1:01:06 UH NOT CURRENTLY.

1:01:07 UM WE'RE NOT UH, GETTING DATA

1:01:09 ON RIDE SHARE LIKE YOU'RE NOT

1:01:11 SINGER DELIVERIES UH, PASSENGER

1:01:12 PICK UP AND DROP OFFS.

1:01:13 BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE

1:01:15 HELPFUL WHERE WE WERE TO GET

1:01:16 THAT.

1:01:17 JUST THE DELIVERIES RIGHT NOW.

1:01:18 JUST FOOD DELIVERIES.

1:01:19 CORRECT.

1:01:19 AND HOW DO THEY REPORT IN?

1:01:22 UM, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH OUR,

1:01:24 UH, DEPARTMENT OF INNOVATION.

1:01:25 TECHNOLOGY HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE

1:01:27 HERE.

1:01:27 THEY'VE DEVELOPED A NEW DATA

1:01:29 STANDARD AND HAVE BEEN WORKING

1:01:30 WITH THE COMPANIES TO GET UM,

1:01:32 REGULAR UH, QUARTERLY DATA

1:01:34 TRANSFERS OF THE DATA.

1:01:36 UM, WE'RE FINE TUNING SOME

1:01:37 OF THAT PROCESS CURRENTLY WITH

1:01:38 THOSE COMPANIES, BUT UM,

1:01:39 THEY'VE DONE AN INCREDIBLE JOB

1:01:40 IN MAKING THIS POSSIBLE.

1:01:41 UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE CREATING

1:01:43 DASHBOARDS AND REPORTS THAT WE

1:01:44 CAN USE ACTIVELY IN UM, SOME

1:01:47 DECISION MAKING AND

1:01:48 IMPROVEMENTS FOR BOTH

1:01:49 ENFORCEMENT AND FOR MANAGEMENT.

1:01:50 AND AND WHAT ABOUT AUTOMATIC UH

1:01:52 ,PARKING ENFORCEMENT AND THE

1:01:55 CITY IS WORKING WITH THE STATE

1:01:57 WHAT SPECIFIC CHANGES TO STATE

1:01:59 LAW WOULD BE NECESSARY IN ORDER

1:02:02 FOR THE CITY TO DO AUTOMATED

1:02:04 ENFORCEMENT?

1:02:05 SIR, I WILL START AND THEN NICK

1:02:06 IS DEFINITELY ADAM CORRECT YOUR

1:02:08 SO UH I BELIEVE IT IS UM

1:02:11 CHAPTER NINE SECTION 28.5 UH

1:02:14 WHICH VERY SPECIFICALLY UM

1:02:16 IDENTIFIES UM BOSTON AS HAVING

1:02:18 THE ESSENTIALLY THE REQUIREMENT

1:02:19 OF AFFIXING A TICKET TO A.

1:02:21 VERTICAL AND IT'S THAT LANGUAGE

1:02:24 WHICH ESSENTIALLY UM, AS A

1:02:26 RESULT OF IT SORT OF PREVENTS

1:02:27 US FROM USING AUTOMATED

1:02:28 ENFORCEMENT THE WAY IN WHICH

1:02:30 ESSENTIALLY EVERY EVERY OTHER

1:02:30 CITY AND TOWN HAVE BEEN ABLE TO

1:02:32 UM, WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH

1:02:34 BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE IN THAT

1:02:35 PARTICULAR SECTION ARE CALLED

1:02:37 OUT UM AS HAVING TO FIX THE

1:02:39 TICKET.

1:02:39 CAMBRIDGE HAS ALREADY WORKED

1:02:40 THROUGH A PROCESS WE WERE

1:02:41 WORKING THROUGH A PROCESS AND.

1:02:42 THAT MISSION OF OURS MATCHING

1:02:44 OR.

1:02:44 THAT EXACTLY RIGHT.

1:02:46 SO WE'D HAVE TO GO TO THE

1:02:47 STATE TO MAKE THAT MODIFICATION

1:02:50 YOU KNOW, CAMBRIDGE.

1:02:51 SUCCESSFULLY THROUGH A HOME

1:02:52 RULE PETITION, UH, WHICH WAS

1:02:54 SIGNED INTO LAW IN JULY.

1:02:56 UH CHAPTER 140 OF ACTS 2026.

1:02:58 THEY GOT.

1:02:59 RELIEF CHAPTER ONE.

1:03:00 UH CHAPTER 140 OF THE ACTS.

1:03:02 OF 2026.

1:03:03 PROVIDED CAMBRIDGE RELIEF UH

1:03:05 FROM CHAPTER 90.

1:03:07 UH SECTION 20.5.

1:03:09 SO BOSTON.

1:03:10 IS NOW THE ONLY MUNICIPALITY IN

1:03:11 THE COMMONWEALTH SUBJECT TO

1:03:13 THAT.

1:03:14 AND WHAT WILL WE NEED TO DO?

1:03:19 UH, ONE OPTION WHICH.

1:03:20 WE.

1:03:20 HAVE PROPOSED IS SEEKING.

1:03:22 OUT OUR OWN HOME.

1:03:23 RULE PETITION, UH, FROM THE

1:03:24 LEGISLATURE SO THAT WE CAN ALSO

1:03:26 SEEK SIMILAR.

1:03:27 RELIEF AND WE'VE DONE THAT YET.

1:03:29 WE ARE WE ARE ADVOCATING FOR

1:03:30 THAT.

1:03:31 YES.

1:03:31 AND THAT WOULD HAVE WOULD THAT

1:03:33 HAVE THAT WOULD HAVE TO START

1:03:34 WITH THE COUNCIL RIGHT.

1:03:35 AND THEN THE MAYOR WOULD

1:03:36 APPROVE IT AND THEN THE MAYOR

1:03:37 WOULD SEND IT TO THE STATE.

1:03:40 UH NO THAT WOULD THAT PROCESS.

1:03:42 WOULD I MEAN.

1:03:43 CAN THE.

1:03:44 ADVOCACY FOR IT.

1:03:44 CAN OBVIOUSLY.

1:03:45 ORIGINATE ANYWHERE.

1:03:46 BUT NO, I DON'T MEAN THE

1:03:47 ADVOCACY.

1:03:48 I MEAN THE WE WOULD THE ACTUAL

1:03:50 .

1:03:51 IT'S THAT'S AN ACQUISITION.

1:03:52 YEAH.

1:03:52 OKAY.

1:03:53 UM BUT IT WOULD START WITH

1:03:55 THE COUNCIL RIGHT.

1:03:57 UH THE.

1:03:58 COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE TO

1:03:59 TAKE SPECIFIC ACTION HERE.

1:04:01 NO.

1:04:01 OKAY.

1:04:01 LET ME ASK THE QUESTION IS

1:04:02 DIFFERENT IF WE WANTED TO.

1:04:06 IF THE COUNCIL WANTED TO PASS.

1:04:10 THANK YOU.

1:04:11 CAN I FINISH MY QUESTION, MADAM

1:04:13 CHAIR?

1:04:13 YOU JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

1:04:14 I'LL.

1:04:15 LET YOU COME BACK.

1:04:16 BUT WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH

1:04:17 THE LIST AND I THINK WE MIGHT

1:04:18 HAVE SOME EXTRA TIME,

1:04:19 COUNCILOR WEBER.

1:04:22 OKAY.

1:04:23 YEAH, THANKS.

1:04:24 UM.

1:04:24 I YOU KNOW.

1:04:25 TO TO CHIEF OSGOOD I FEEL LIKE,

1:04:27 YOU KNOW, PART OF THE ISSUE

1:04:28 HERE IS.

1:04:30 UM.

1:04:30 YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LACK

1:04:33 OF ENFORCEMENT GENERALLY AND

1:04:34 THEN, UH, WHEN WE DO HAVE

1:04:36 ENFORCEMENT, IT DOESN'T ALWAYS

1:04:37 SEEM LIKE THE RIGHT KIND

1:04:40 OF ENFORCEMENT.

1:04:40 UH, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING ABOUT

1:04:42 PEOPLE HAVING TICKETS IN WEST

1:04:44 ROXBURY WITH THEIR TIRE ON THE

1:04:45 LINE BUT SO FOR LACK

1:04:46 OF ENFORCEMENT, I MEAN, THE

1:04:47 REASON WHY WE NEED TO KEEP THE

1:04:48 BIKE LANES CLEARS BECAUSE

1:04:50 PEOPLE DRIVE, YOU KNOW, UM,

1:04:52 VERY UNSAFELY ON THE ROADS AND

1:04:54 THERE IS AN LIKE THERE ISN'T A

1:04:57 LOT OF ENFORCEMENT FROM THE THE

1:04:58 POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR TRAFFIC.

1:05:00 SO I KNOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

1:05:01 PARKING TICKETS ESSENTIALLY BUT

1:05:02 YOU KNOW WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

1:05:05 YOU KNOW THERE'S WE DON'T HAVE

1:05:06 RED LIGHT CAMERAS YOU KNOW

1:05:07 WHICH WOULD MAKE A HUGE

1:05:09 DIFFERENCE.

1:05:10 UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU

1:05:11 DOING WITH THE POLICE

1:05:13 DEPARTMENT TO GET THEM TO GET

1:05:14 THE CARS TO DRIVE IN A SAFER

1:05:16 MANNER?

1:05:17 UH, I THINK WE'RE VERY

1:05:19 FORTUNATE.

1:05:20 I GUESS ONE THING TO NOTE I

1:05:21 THINK, UH, THERE'S A HUGE

1:05:24 AMOUNT OF ENFORCEMENT.

1:05:25 THAT IS HAPPENING.

1:05:26 I MEAN, 1.1 MILLION TICKETS

1:05:27 OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST

1:05:28 YEAR.

1:05:29 FY 26 IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT

1:05:31 OF WORK.

1:05:32 I ALSO AGREE THAT THERE IS MORE

1:05:33 ENFORCEMENT THAT IS NEEDED,

1:05:34 WHICH IS WHY I THINK IT'S GREAT

1:05:36 THAT THAT NUMBER IS INCREASING.

1:05:37 SO I DO WANT US TO RECOGNIZE

1:05:38 THAT OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:05:39 OFFICERS ARE DOING A TREMENDOUS

1:05:41 AMOUNT OF WORK.

1:05:42 YEAH I'M NOT AGAIN THESE ARE

1:05:44 MOVING PEOPLE DRIVE THROUGH RED

1:05:45 LINES.

1:05:45 PEOPLE ARE YOU KNOW, TURNING

1:05:47 INTO CROSSWALKS WITH PEOPLE IN

1:05:48 THEM AND UH, DRIVING TOO FAST

1:05:50 AND SO IT'S LIKE YOU CAN YOU

1:05:52 CAN DESIGN THE SAFEST STREETS

1:05:53 IN THE WORLD AND THEN IF PEOPLE

1:05:54 ARE, YOU KNOW, OBEYING THE

1:05:56 RULES THEN EVERYONE'S IN DANGER

1:05:59 .

1:05:59 SO IS THERE SOME PART OF YOUR

1:06:00 YOU KNOW, THIS IN YOUR ADVOCACY

1:06:02 OR YOUR.

1:06:03 YOUR WORK THAT YOU'RE WORKING.

1:06:04 WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT?

1:06:05 YEAH THERE'S A THERE'S A GOOD

1:06:07 AMOUNT OF COORDINATION.

1:06:08 I THINK WE CAN ALWAYS UM, THINK

1:06:10 ABOUT HOW WE ARE DOING EVEN

1:06:11 MORE TO COMPLEMENT ENGINEERING

1:06:13 CHANGES, UH.

1:06:14 AND CURB RULE CHANGES WITH

1:06:15 ENFORCEMENT CHANGES.

1:06:16 BUT THERE'S A GOOD AMOUNT

1:06:17 OF COORDINATION BETWEEN THE

1:06:17 POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, AND THE

1:06:19 CITY AND AS YOU KNOW, SORT

1:06:21 OF ALWAYS INTERESTED IN

1:06:22 UNDERSTANDING AND THIS IS RARE

1:06:23 AS A COMMUNITY SERVICE OFFICERS

1:06:24 ALL THE TIME UM, BY A NUMBER

1:06:27 OF YOU UM, WHAT AREAS OF THE

1:06:29 POLICE DEPARTMENT SHOULD BE

1:06:30 MOST FOCUSED ON?

1:06:30 AND I KNOW THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS

1:06:31 INTERESTED IN GETTING THAT

1:06:32 FEEDBACK.

1:06:32 OKAY.

1:06:33 I GUESS LIKE ARE THERE ANY

1:06:34 CHANGES THAT YOU'RE MAKING IN

1:06:36 HOW THAT ENGAGEMENT IS TAKING

1:06:38 PLACE?

1:06:38 UH NOT YET BUT TO YOUR POINT

1:06:40 THERE IS UM THERE IS

1:06:42 LEGISLATION WHICH IS THEN

1:06:43 MOVING THROUGH AROUND WHICH

1:06:44 WOULD ALLOW SOME DEGREE

1:06:46 OF PHOTO ENFORCEMENT FOR MOVING

1:06:47 VIOLATIONS AT THE STATE LEVEL.

1:06:49 IT IS SPECIFIC UH TO

1:06:51 CONSTRUCTION ZONES UM UH AND

1:06:53 SCHOOL ZONES AND ARE DESIGNATED

1:06:55 SAFE ZONES BUT IT WOULD BE

1:06:57 ANOTHER SORT OF TOOL THAT THAT

1:06:58 COULD ACTUALLY BE DEPLOYED BY

1:06:59 THE CITY PROBABLY UM AND BY OUR

1:07:02 UM BY OUR PARTNERS IN PLACE.

1:07:03 BRIAN.

1:07:04 OKAY.

1:07:04 UH AND THEN UH, I THINK

1:07:07 COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE BROUGHT UP

1:07:08 DAYLIGHTING.

1:07:08 I THINK THAT'S A HUGE ISSUE.

1:07:10 UH, JUST YESTERDAY I WAS IN

1:07:12 WEST ROXBURY AND I PARKED IN

1:07:15 LIKE THE LAST SPOT, YOU KNOW,

1:07:16 ON CENTER STREET.

1:07:17 AND THEN I CAME OUT OF THE

1:07:18 COFFEE SHOP IN FRONT OF THE

1:07:19 BOSTON ALE HOUSE AND THERE WAS

1:07:20 A CAR PARKED RIGHT IN FRONT

1:07:22 OF ME IN THE DAYLIGHTING AREA.

1:07:23 AND I THINK THE PART OF THE

1:07:24 PROBLEM WHEN YOU HAVE THE BIKE

1:07:26 LANE AND THERE'S A THE CURB

1:07:28 BUMPS OUT, YOU KNOW, SOME

1:07:29 PEOPLE ARE LIKE OH I'M GOING TO

1:07:31 PULL UP TO THE CURB, YOU KNOW,

1:07:32 I'M JUST ISN'T GOOD FAITH IN MY

1:07:35 FELLOW HUMANS YOU KNOW LIKE

1:07:36 THEY JUST THINK OH I'M JUST

1:07:37 GOING TO PARK HERE AND THEY'RE

1:07:39 ACTUALLY BLOCKING THE BIKE LANE

1:07:40 BECAUSE THEY'RE PARKING IN THE

1:07:41 DAYLIGHTING THING.

1:07:43 SO I GUESS THE ADVOCATE FOR THE

1:07:45 SORT OF CONCRETE YOU KNOW LIKE

1:07:48 ISLANDS OR SOMETHING BECAUSE

1:07:49 THAT'S I THINK THE ONLY WAY

1:07:50 WE'RE GOING TO ENFORCE THE

1:07:51 DAYLIGHTING BUT.

1:07:53 UH DEFINITELY YOUR YOUR POINT

1:07:54 IS WELL HEARD IS ONE OF THE

1:07:56 THINGS WHICH WEATHER PERMITTING

1:07:57 WE DO EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO UH,

1:07:59 PUT IN PLACE ON HYDE PARK AVE

1:08:00 AND THAT STRETCH AGAIN AS YOU

1:08:02 KNOW, BY FOREST HILLS LOOKING

1:08:03 AT SOME UH, CAST IN PLACE

1:08:05 CONCRETE TO ESSENTIALLY

1:08:06 LITERALLY REINFORCE DAYLIGHTING

1:08:08 AND SOME OF THE UH THE KEY

1:08:09 LOCATIONS.

1:08:09 OKAY.

1:08:10 AND THAT'S POSSIBLE AND.

1:08:12 THAT IS THE IT'LL BE I THINK

1:08:13 OUR MAYBE NOT OUR WE'VE DONE

1:08:16 SOME OF THIS UH CLOSER CLEARY

1:08:17 SQUARE ALREADY BUT UM IT IS

1:08:20 SOMETHING WHICH WE ARE TRYING

1:08:20 TO ADD TO OUR TOOLKIT TO SEE

1:08:22 CAN THAT BE A WAY IN WHICH WE

1:08:23 CAN DO SOME ADDITIONAL

1:08:24 DAYLIGHTING?

1:08:25 YEAH.

1:08:25 AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA

1:08:26 THAT WE'RE DOING THAT YOU'RE

1:08:27 DOING THAT IN HYDE PARK AV AND

1:08:28 IT'S GETTING A THANK YOU VERY

1:08:30 MUCH.

1:08:32 UM AND THEN IN TERMS

1:08:33 OF BOLLARDS IS THAT LIKE THEY

1:08:35 WENT IN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO

1:08:36 THAN THEY ALL CAME OUT IS THAT

1:08:38 ARE WE DONE WITH BOLLARDS THE

1:08:40 PLASTIC ONES.

1:08:41 SO I THINK FLEXIBLE SENSORS

1:08:42 ETC. ARE ALWAYS GOING TO BE

1:08:44 PART OF OUR OVERALL OVERALL

1:08:44 TOOLKIT.

1:08:45 WE ARE LOOKING NOW TO FIGURE

1:08:46 OUT HOW DO WE ACTUALLY

1:08:47 TRANSITION TO SOMETHING WHICH

1:08:49 UM CAN GET INSTALLED AND HAS

1:08:50 THAT IS MORE PERMANENT AS LESS

1:08:52 OF AN ONGOING MAINTENANCE

1:08:53 BURDEN AND TO YOUR POINT MORE

1:08:54 EFFECTIVE UH, OVER TIME.

1:08:56 OKAY.

1:08:56 AND THEN SO IN TERMS

1:08:59 OF AGAIN FOR DAYLIGHTING FOR

1:09:01 PEOPLE FOR.

1:09:02 IT DOES IT HELPFUL TO ADVOCATE

1:09:03 FOR PLACES OR YOU JUST.

1:09:05 YOU'RE YOU'LL TAKE IT FROM HERE

1:09:08 OR CAN WE POINT OUT CAN THE

1:09:09 COMMUNITY HOW DO YOU RECOMMEND

1:09:11 THEY ENGAGE.

1:09:11 IT IS IT IS ALWAYS HELPFUL

1:09:13 TO GET RECOMMENDATIONS.

1:09:14 THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

1:09:15 WE ARE LOOKING TO INCORPORATE

1:09:16 INTO SOME OF OUR MORE

1:09:17 PROGRAMMATIC APPROACHES ACROSS

1:09:18 THE CITY.

1:09:19 SO AS WE ARE BUILDING FOR

1:09:20 EXAMPLE OUR RESURFACING PROGRAM

1:09:21 FOR 2027 WORKING THROUGH HOW DO

1:09:24 WE ACTUALLY MAKE ADJUSTMENTS I

1:09:26 THINK IS SOMETHING WHICH YOU

1:09:27 SAW A LITTLE BIT OF ON CENTER

1:09:28 STREET IN JAMAICA PLAN HOW DO

1:09:30 WE ACTUALLY CHANGE SOME OF THE

1:09:31 MARKINGS ON THE ROADWAY OR

1:09:32 CHANGE UH SOME OF THE SOME

1:09:33 OTHER COMPONENTS OF THE ROADWAY

1:09:34 AS WE COME IN AND DO A SORT

1:09:35 OF A STANDARD RESURFACING SO

1:09:37 THAT WE ARE NOT JUST

1:09:38 RESURFACING THE ROADWAY BUT

1:09:39 MAKING A SAFER AS A RESULT.

1:09:40 SO THE LIGHT OF THE FEEDBACK,

1:09:41 WE'RE ALSO TRYING TO

1:09:42 PROGRAMMATICALLY ADDRESS THIS

1:09:43 THROUGH THE WORK WE'RE DOING UM

1:09:45 THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

1:09:46 OKAY.

1:09:46 AND THEN I GUESS UH OTHER

1:09:48 THAN THE DAYLIGHTING THE BUFFER

1:09:49 ZONES IN WEST ROXBURY, UM, YOU

1:09:51 KNOW, ON CENTER STREET WHAT'S A

1:09:53 WAY TO MAKE THEM YOU KNOW, IS

1:09:56 THERE ANY PLANS OR UH, HOW TO

1:09:58 MAKE THOSE, YOU KNOW, PUT SOME

1:10:00 BARRIERS UP, SOME PLANTERS

1:10:02 SOMETHING THAT WOULD HELP

1:10:03 PROTECT THE THE BIKE LANES SO

1:10:05 PEOPLE AREN'T.

1:10:05 PARKING IT.

1:10:06 SURE.

1:10:07 HAPPY TO HAPPY TO WORK

1:10:08 THROUGH SOME OF THE SPECIFICS.

1:10:09 THE BUFFER ZONE AS YOU KNOW IS

1:10:11 SORT OF IS THERE TO BASICALLY

1:10:12 ENSURE THAT THE CARS ARE PARKED

1:10:13 FAR ENOUGH FROM THE BIKE LANE

1:10:15 SO THAT A CYCLIST WAS COMING

1:10:16 DOWN THE BIKE LANE IS UH IS NOT

1:10:18 AT RISK OF HAVING A DOOR OPENED

1:10:21 UH, AND HAVE THEM UH COLLIDE

1:10:22 WITH IT.

1:10:23 UM, WE ARE HAPPY TO SORT

1:10:26 OF THINK THROUGH ARE THERE

1:10:26 OTHER WAYS IN WHICH SORT OF THE

1:10:28 BEGINNING AND.

1:10:28 ENDS OF SOME OF THE PARKING

1:10:29 PROTECTED SECTIONS?

1:10:30 UH, WE ARE LITERALLY

1:10:32 REINFORCING UM.

1:10:34 UH.

1:10:34 THE DESIGN OF THAT BIKE

1:10:36 LANE.

1:10:36 OKAY.

1:10:37 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:10:37 UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN, YOU HAVE

1:10:39 THE FLOOR.

1:10:41 THANK YOU.

1:10:42 MADAM CHAIR.

1:10:43 AND THANK YOU TO BTD FOR

1:10:44 BEING HERE.

1:10:45 THANK YOU TO THE ENTIRE TEAM

1:10:46 FOR ALL THE WORK THEY DO.

1:10:47 THANK YOU TO THE ADVOCATES AND

1:10:48 THE NEIGHBORS.

1:10:49 AND I ALSO SEE IN THE AUDIENCE

1:10:51 UM, I WAS ABLE TO JOIN JOHN AND

1:10:54 OTHER BTD MEMBERS FOR A RIDE

1:10:56 ALONG WITH PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:10:57 OFFICERS ON BLUE HILL AVENUE

1:11:00 AND WHEN I SAY THAT WAS

1:11:01 PROBABLY ONE OF THE SCARIEST

1:11:02 NIGHTS OF MY TIME ON THE CITY

1:11:04 COUNCIL, I'M NOT.

1:11:05 OVEREXAGGERATING BECAUSE WHAT I

1:11:07 WITNESSED THAT NIGHT WAS.

1:11:08 PARKING PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:11:10 OFFICERS BE VERBALLY ASSAULTED

1:11:13 AND IN ONE CASE ALMOST

1:11:15 PHYSICALLY ASSAULTED.

1:11:17 UM AND THEY WERE JUST SIMPLY

1:11:18 DOING THEIR JOBS.

1:11:19 THERE WERE TICKETING PEOPLE WHO

1:11:22 WERE VERY CLEARLY VIOLATING

1:11:24 PARKING.

1:11:25 REGULATIONS.

1:11:26 BLOCKING BUS STOPS, BLOCKING

1:11:28 DRIVEWAYS, BLOCKING.

1:11:30 HYDRANTS.

1:11:31 ETC. AND I JUST WANTED TO

1:11:33 START OFF BY SAYING THANK YOU

1:11:35 BECAUSE IT IS NOT AN EASY JOB

1:11:37 AND I JUST I KNOW THAT THEY'RE

1:11:38 OUT THERE AND I KNOW NO ONE

1:11:40 LIKES TO SEE THAT ORANGE SLIP

1:11:41 ON THEIR ON THEIR WINDSHIELD.

1:11:42 BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO VIOLATE

1:11:44 A PARKING REGULATION YOU'RE

1:11:45 GOING TO GET A TICKET.

1:11:48 I BEFORE I GOT HERE I WAS ON

1:11:49 HYDE PARK AVENUE.

1:11:50 I LEFT MY CAR AND IN THE IN THE

1:11:53 FOREST HILLS AND I SAW HYDE

1:11:54 PARK OUT FRESHLY STRIPED.

1:11:55 THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.

1:11:57 THAT IS UM KUDOS TO THE WORK

1:11:59 OF THE ADVOCATES IN BOTH MY

1:12:01 DISTRICT AND COUNCIL MEMBERS

1:12:03 DISTRICT WHO REALLY WANTED THAT

1:12:04 AND THEY MADE IT SAFER AND I DO

1:12:05 SEE A LOT OF PROGRESS THERE SO

1:12:07 THANK YOU.

1:12:09 COMMENTS.

1:12:10 HIGHWAY I WAS AT CUMMINS

1:12:11 HIGHWAY THIS PAST SATURDAY WITH

1:12:12 A FEW OF THE PEOPLE IN THIS

1:12:13 ROOM AND LET ME TELL YOU IT

1:12:15 FEELS A LOT SAFER.

1:12:17 IT IS A PROTECTED BIKE LANE.

1:12:20 IT IS A BIGGER SIDEWALK FOR

1:12:21 PEDESTRIANS AND YES WE BROUGHT

1:12:22 IT FROM FOUR LANES TO TWO LANES

1:12:23 IN EACH ONE LANE IN EACH

1:12:24 DIRECTION BUT THAT IS THE

1:12:26 DESIGN I WANT TO SEE MOVING.

1:12:27 FORWARD WHERE WE ARE

1:12:29 PRIORITIZING MULTI-MODAL

1:12:30 TRANSPORTATION SO THAT THE

1:12:31 CONCERNS WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

1:12:32 TODAY WE DON'T HAVE TO TALK

1:12:34 ABOUT THEM AS MUCH IN THE

1:12:35 FUTURE.

1:12:35 AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF US

1:12:37 COULD AGREE TO THAT THAT WE

1:12:38 JUST FELT THE SENSE OF OPTIMISM

1:12:39 WHEN WE WERE EITHER RIDING THE

1:12:41 BIKES OR WALKING ON CUMMINS

1:12:43 HIGHWAY THIS PAST WEEKEND.

1:12:46 I WANT TO ALSO ADVOCATE UM AND

1:12:48 SAY THANK YOU FOR THE THE

1:12:50 LIGHTING ON HYDE PARK GAP THAT

1:12:52 I WITNESSED AS THE UPGRADES

1:12:54 BECAUSE YOU KNOW DARK STREET IT

1:12:56 IS VERY HARD.

1:12:57 TO SEE A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING

1:12:58 THE STREET SO YOU IMPROVE THE

1:13:00 LIGHTING AND SOMEONE RECENTLY

1:13:02 WAS HIT BECAUSE OF HOW DARK IT

1:13:04 WAS.

1:13:04 ON HYDE PARK AVENUE.

1:13:05 SO THE WORK THAT YOU DID WAS

1:13:06 PHENOMENAL.

1:13:08 UM AND I WANT TO ASK FOR SOME

1:13:09 SOME HELP ON SOME OTHER THINGS

1:13:13 ENFORCEMENT ON BUS LANES

1:13:15 WASHINGTON STREET IN ROSLINDALE

1:13:17 CONSISTENTLY SEES PEOPLE

1:13:19 VIOLATING THAT BUS LANE.

1:13:23 UM I WANT TO BE I KNOW THAT I

1:13:25 SEE PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:13:26 OFFICERS THERE SOMETIMES BUT

1:13:27 IT'S JUST SO IT'S SO CONSISTENT

1:13:29 THAT I JUST WANT TO KEEP

1:13:30 ADVOCATING FOR IT BECAUSE AS

1:13:31 SOMEONE THAT RIDES THE BUS ON

1:13:33 WASHINGTON STREET BUT I ALSO

1:13:34 KNOW THAT UM, A TON

1:13:37 OF RESIDENTS USE THAT IT'S IT'S

1:13:39 SUCH A CONVENIENCE.

1:13:40 SO WHEN IT IS BLOCKED IT IS A

1:13:41 IT'S TROUBLING I WANT TO GET AN

1:13:43 UPDATE ON THE BUS CAMERAS THAT

1:13:45 THE MBTA DID AN RFP FOR AND I

1:13:48 BELIEVE NOW IT'S ALL READY TO

1:13:49 GO.

1:13:49 WHEN IS THAT GOING TO START?

1:13:51 CAN WE ADVOCATE FOR BUSSES ON

1:13:52 WASHINGTON STREET TO GET THEM

1:13:54 GOING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE?

1:13:55 UH IT WILL.

1:13:56 FORMALLY START ON THE SELF

1:13:58 AWARENESS ON FIVE SORT OF LINE

1:13:59 FOR AND SILVER ON FIVE I WILL

1:14:00 BE THE FIRST DAY OF ACTUAL

1:14:01 ENFORCEMENT IT WILL BE JANUARY

1:14:02 1ST BUT.

1:14:03 I CAN MOVE BACK TO THIS TO THE

1:14:05 DA COUNCIL ON ON THE SPECIFICS

1:14:06 THERE.

1:14:07 UM AND THEN UH OVER THE COURSE

1:14:10 OF 2027 IT'LL ROLL OUT BUS YARD

1:14:11 BY BUS YARD AS MY

1:14:12 UNDERSTANDING.

1:14:13 UH SO HERE WE CAN SEE IF WE GET

1:14:15 A GENERAL TIMELINE FOR WHEN THE

1:14:16 BUS YARD THAT SERVICES

1:14:17 WASHINGTON STREET IN ROSLINDALE

1:14:19 UH, UM, WOULD BE COVERED.

1:14:21 IT WILL BE BOTH UH, ENFORCEMENT

1:14:23 FOR PARKED CARS, THE BUS STOPS

1:14:24 AS WELL AS STOP FOR SENDING

1:14:25 VEHICLES IN BUS LANES UH, WITH

1:14:27 A IN THE LATTER CATEGORY SORT

1:14:29 OF AN ESCALATING FINE

1:14:29 STRUCTURE.

1:14:31 SO UH HAPPY TO SORT OF SHARING

1:14:32 THOSE DETAILS.

1:14:33 THANK YOU.

1:14:34 SO IT SOUNDS LIKE I SHOULD SEND

1:14:34 A LETTER TO THE MTA ASKING FOR

1:14:36 THEM TO PRIORITIZE THE FOREST

1:14:37 HILLS BUS YARD.

1:14:38 OKAY.

1:14:39 UM, CAMBRIDGE IS PILOTING

1:14:41 SOMETHING IN SOMERVILLE USES

1:14:43 BOLLARDS TO READ LICENSE PLATES

1:14:45 FOR FOLKS WHO ARE VIOLATING

1:14:47 COMMERCIAL PARKING SPOTS OR

1:14:48 JUST ANY PARKING VIOLATIONS.

1:14:50 I MET WITH A FEW OF THESE

1:14:51 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE PAST JUST

1:14:52 TO LEARN WHAT THEY DO.

1:14:53 WHERE ARE WE WITH THAT?

1:14:55 I KNOW THAT THERE'S LIMITATIONS

1:14:56 TO WHAT WE COULD DO IN BOSTON,

1:14:57 BUT I WOULD LOVE TO ADVOCATE

1:14:58 FOR THAT.

1:14:59 I JUST THINK THAT UM, IT WOULD

1:15:00 COMPLEMENT THE WORK THAT OUR

1:15:02 ENFORCEMENT TEAM DOES.

1:15:03 HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT USING

1:15:05 THAT?

1:15:05 UH, SO WE ALSO HAVE

1:15:06 CONVERSATIONS WITH SOMERVILLE

1:15:07 AND WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS

1:15:08 WITH UM, UH, ENTITIES THAT SORT

1:15:11 OF PROVIDE THAT SORT

1:15:11 OF SERVICE.

1:15:12 IT IS IN THAT CATEGORY THOUGH

1:15:14 SOMETHING WHICH WE ARE

1:15:15 RESTRICTED FROM DOING UH RIGHT

1:15:15 NOW BECAUSE IT WOULD BE PHOTO

1:15:16 ENFORCEMENT, UM AS A TOOL THAT

1:15:18 OUR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS WOULD

1:15:19 BE USING RATHER THAN WHAT

1:15:20 THEY'RE DOING RIGHT NOW.

1:15:21 THANK YOU.

1:15:22 I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO

1:15:23 PUSH FOR THAT.

1:15:24 I JUST THINK THAT IT'S IT'S A

1:15:25 GOOD WAY FOR US TO USE NEW

1:15:27 TECHNOLOGY.

1:15:28 UM I WANT TO ADVOCATE ALSO FOR

1:15:29 SOMETHING ELSE.

1:15:30 UM, AND IN THE PRACTICE

1:15:31 OF SANDWICHING BIKE LANES

1:15:32 BETWEEN TRAFFIC AND PARKING, I

1:15:34 THINK THAT UM I REALLY WANT TO

1:15:36 SEE THAT CANCELED.

1:15:37 I WANT BIKE LANES TO BE

1:15:38 PROTECTED.

1:15:40 I PREFERABLY OFF THE STREET.

1:15:41 BUT IF IT HAS TO BE PROTECTED

1:15:43 WITH, YOU KNOW, THE SIDEWALK IN

1:15:44 THE PARKING SPOTS OKAY.

1:15:45 LIKE CENTER STREET.

1:15:46 NOT IN MY DISTRICT BUT.

1:15:47 I DO ENJOY SEEING THAT.

1:15:48 UM.

1:15:50 HAVE YOU STOPPED THAT

1:15:51 PRACTICE?

1:15:52 SO.

1:15:52 UH, SIMILAR TO THE

1:15:54 COUNCIL CONCLUSIONS, UM,

1:15:55 QUESTION OUR PREFERENCE WILL

1:15:56 ALWAYS BE COMMONS HIGHWAY

1:15:58 SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

1:15:59 AND THAT IS A I AGREE WITH YOU

1:16:00 TO BE UH, VERY, VERY HAPPY WITH

1:16:02 THE WAY THAT TURNED OUT.

1:16:03 WE HAD UH AND IT'S A WONDERFUL,

1:16:05 UH, ROADWAY GREAT CREDIT TO.

1:16:07 UM.

1:16:07 UH, THE TEAM THAT UH THE

1:16:09 COMMUNITY THAT HELPED SHAPE THE

1:16:10 DESIGN AND THE DESIGN TEAM AND

1:16:12 CONSTRUCTION TEAM THAT UH THAT

1:16:13 DELIVERED IT, UM, THAT SORT

1:16:15 OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT NOT

1:16:16 ALONE I THINK WAS A $31 MILLION

1:16:18 ROUGHLY ONE MILE CONSTRUCTION

1:16:19 PROJECT.

1:16:20 SO IT'S NOT THE SORT OF THING

1:16:21 WHICH WE CAN NECESSARILY DO AT

1:16:22 THAT PACE OR AT SCALE.

1:16:24 UM PARKING PROTECTED OBVIOUSLY

1:16:26 UH PARKING PROTECTED BIKE LANE

1:16:27 IS SOMETHING WHICH WE WOULD UM

1:16:28 ,LOOK AT AS AN ALTERNATIVE.

1:16:30 UM WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE THE

1:16:31 ROADWAY CROSS SECTION THE CROSS

1:16:33 SECTION.

1:16:33 CHIEF, I WANT TO CUT YOU OFF.

1:16:34 BECAUSE ONE.

1:16:35 MORE THING.

1:16:36 CLEAR SQUARE.

1:16:37 INTERSECTION OF HIGH PARK GAVIN

1:16:38 RIVER STREET.

1:16:39 IT IS GIVING ME A LOT

1:16:40 OF HEADACHES WHEN IT COMES TO

1:16:41 CONGESTION AND PEOPLE ARE

1:16:43 VIOLATING AND BLOCKING THE

1:16:45 CROSSWALKS IN THE INTERSECTION.

1:16:47 I NEED HELP WITH THAT.

1:16:47 OKAY THANK YOU.

1:16:50 OKAY.

1:16:52 DID YOU WANT AN ANSWER TO

1:16:53 THAT?

1:16:53 NOPE OKAY.

1:16:54 THANK YOU.

1:16:56 UM SO WE HAVE I DO WE HAVE.

1:16:58 HER ON SINCE SHE COMES UP.

1:17:00 OH NOT YET OKAY.

1:17:02 UM I WANT TO GIVE A CHANCE TO

1:17:04 COUNCILOR BREADON AS THE OTHER

1:17:05 SPONSOR.

1:17:05 I'M SORRY I DIDN'T RECOGNIZE

1:17:06 YOU FOR BEING THE OTHER

1:17:07 SPONSOR.

1:17:08 UM, IF YOU HAD I IT LOOKS LIKE

1:17:10 WE HAVE A COUPLE MORE MINUTES.

1:17:11 SO, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:17:14 UM, AND.

1:17:16 EVERYONE THAT VISITED, UM.

1:17:17 UM.

1:17:18 OKAY.

1:17:19 UM, WONDERING HOW STREET SAFETY

1:17:23 IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING

1:17:24 INTEGRATED INTO REGULARLY

1:17:25 SCHEDULED ROAD MAINTENANCE.

1:17:27 I KNOW IDEALLY WE SAY IF YOU'RE

1:17:30 GOING TO DO THE ADA RAMPS UH,

1:17:32 ADA CURB CUTS AND WHATEVER ON

1:17:35 KELTON STREET WAS REPAVE

1:17:36 RECENTLY CURB CUTS, CURB RAMPS

1:17:38 WERE REPAIRED AS PART OF THE

1:17:39 ONGOING UH AGREEMENT THAT WE

1:17:41 HAVE WITH THE FEDERAL

1:17:42 GOVERNMENT.

1:17:43 UM BUT THEN THAT WAS THAT WAS

1:17:45 AN AREA THAT HAD BEEN

1:17:46 IDENTIFIED AS A NEED FOR SAFETY

1:17:47 SEARCH AND UM TREATMENTS AS

1:17:49 WELL.

1:17:49 BUT THERE WAS NO CURB

1:17:50 EXTENSIONS OR NO OTHER

1:17:52 TREATMENTS AND HANDLED IN THAT

1:17:55 SO I DON'T KNOW WHEN AND WHAT'S

1:17:56 THE WHAT'S THE PROTOCOL AND

1:17:57 WHAT'S THE DECISION MAKING

1:17:59 PROCESS TO DECIDING WHEN AND

1:18:00 WHERE WE DO THOSE SORT

1:18:02 OF TREATMENTS.

1:18:03 SO THIS IS UH THIS IS CERTAINLY

1:18:06 THE DIRECTION THAT WE ARE VERY

1:18:07 MUCH THEY'RE GOING TO GO HOW TO

1:18:08 INCORPORATE THESE SAFETY

1:18:09 IMPROVEMENTS UH, AS PART OF OUR

1:18:11 ANNUAL PROGRAMS ROADWAY

1:18:13 RESURFACING UH RAMPS.

1:18:15 THIS PAST.

1:18:15 YEAR, UH, THE TEAM WAS ABLE TO

1:18:17 ON ABOUT 15% OF THE ROADWAY

1:18:18 MILES THAT WHERE WE DID

1:18:20 RESURFACING TO MAKE CHANGES TO

1:18:23 UH, SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS UM, TO

1:18:24 THE ROADWAY.

1:18:25 I THINK THERE'S CONTINUED

1:18:27 OPPORTUNITY WITH GREAT CREDIT

1:18:28 OF THE TEAM TO THINK ABOUT HOW

1:18:29 WE SORT OF EXTEND WHAT.

1:18:30 THAT TOOLKIT.

1:18:31 CAN LOOK LIKE AS PART

1:18:32 OF RESURFACING AND HOW TO YOUR

1:18:33 POINT, WE SORT OF PLAN AND

1:18:35 INCORPORATE SOME OF THE

1:18:35 FEEDBACK WE'VE GOTTEN FROM

1:18:37 COMMUNITY MEETINGS OR VIA 311

1:18:39 INTO SORT OF OUR DESIGN CHANGES

1:18:40 THAT WE CAN WE CAN DO AS PART

1:18:42 OF A STANDARD RESURFACING

1:18:43 PROJECT.

1:18:43 YEAH.

1:18:44 THANK YOU.

1:18:45 AND I KNOW WE MENTIONED SCHOOL

1:18:46 ZONES EARLIER BUT UM, I REALLY

1:18:48 FEEL THAT THERE'S SOME PLACES

1:18:50 AND SPACES WHERE SLOWING

1:18:53 TRAFFIC DOWN IS ACTUALLY REALLY

1:18:55 REALLY LIFE SAVING STRATEGY.

1:18:57 UM SO IN THINKING ABOUT SENIOR

1:18:59 HOUSING ON COME ON CHESTNUT

1:19:00 HILL WITH A CONCENTRATION

1:19:02 OF SENIOR HOUSING.

1:19:04 UM PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN KILLED ON

1:19:07 THAT STRETCH OF ROAD AND PEOPLE

1:19:08 HAVE BEEN SERIOUSLY INJURED.

1:19:09 AND IS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION

1:19:11 BEING GIVEN IN ADDITION TO

1:19:12 SCHOOL ZONES LIKE ZONES AROUND

1:19:14 SENIOR HOUSING TO TRY AND MAKE

1:19:16 IT A 20 MILE ZONE WITH SOME

1:19:17 TREATMENT TO THE ROADWAY TO

1:19:18 JUST REALLY SLOW PEOPLE DOWN.

1:19:20 SO I CAN WE.

1:19:22 CAN LOOK AT THAT AND.

1:19:22 YOU MAY.

1:19:23 YOU MAY KNOW OUR ABILITY TO

1:19:25 KNOW THE ABILITY THAT WE HAVE

1:19:26 TO SORT OF EXTEND THE SCHOOL

1:19:27 ZONE ABILITY OR SAFETY ZONE

1:19:29 ABILITY TO OTHER LOCATIONS.

1:19:32 YEAH WE'RE.

1:19:34 FAIRLY LIMITED.

1:19:35 IN YOU KNOW SCHOOL ZONE SCHOOL

1:19:37 SAFETY ZONE THAT.

1:19:39 WE HAVE.

1:19:40 UH BUT.

1:19:41 OUTSIDE OF THAT BECAUSE

1:19:44 OF COMMITMENTS TO CHAPTER 90.

1:19:46 UM WE.

1:19:47 WE NEED TO GO THROUGH A PROCESS

1:19:49 TO MAKE THOSE TYPES OF CHANGES

1:19:50 .

1:19:51 WHETHER WHETHER.

1:19:52 IT BE AS COUNCILOR FLYNN

1:19:54 MENTIONED.

1:19:54 EARLIER.

1:19:55 YOU KNOW.

1:19:56 LOOKING FOR UH, SET SPEED

1:19:57 LIMIT TO.

1:19:58 LOWER THROUGHOUT THE CITY UM.

1:20:00 OR UH, MAKING SPECIFIC CHANGES

1:20:03 WITHIN A CERTAIN.

1:20:04 NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:20:05 JUST ONE LAST PLANNING

1:20:06 MOMENT.

1:20:06 I KNOW THIS GREAT EFFORT LIKE

1:20:09 THIS SEEMS TO BE LIKE A

1:20:10 BREAKDOWN OF TRUST BETWEEN THE

1:20:11 PUBLIC AND THE CITY ABOUT

1:20:12 ENFORCEMENT, LIKE ALL SORTS

1:20:13 OF QUESTIONS.

1:20:13 BUT WHAT TRANSPARENCY MEASURES

1:20:15 CAN WE USE AS A CITY TO MAKE

1:20:17 SURE THAT, UH, ENFORCEMENT

1:20:19 EFFORTS ARE BEING COMMUNICATED

1:20:21 LIKE.

1:20:21 YOUR YOUR TEAM ARE DOING A

1:20:23 GREAT JOB, BUT WE NEED TO

1:20:25 COMMUNICATE WHAT WE'RE DOING

1:20:25 AND HOW EFFECTIVE IT IS.

1:20:27 AGREE.

1:20:28 THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS

1:20:29 WHICH WE HEAR LOUD AND CLEAR

1:20:31 AND I APPRECIATE THE

1:20:32 RECOGNITION OF THE SIGNIFICANT

1:20:33 VOLUME OF WORK FOR THE TEAM IS

1:20:34 DOING UH, ALREADY.

1:20:35 WE DO.

1:20:36 EXPECT UH IF IT IS NOT UP

1:20:38 ALREADY TODAY IT WILL BE UP

1:20:39 SHORTLY.

1:20:39 UM, A WEB PAGE THAT SIMPLY

1:20:41 ALLOWS PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW

1:20:42 WE DO PARKING ENFORCEMENT UH,

1:20:43 ALLOWS FOR THE SORT OF DIVE

1:20:45 INTO SOME OF THE STATS THAT I

1:20:46 SHOWED EARLIER TODAY.

1:20:46 UM, SO PEOPLE GET A SENSE

1:20:48 OF THE SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT

1:20:49 OF ACTIVITY THAT OUR PARKING

1:20:51 ENFORCEMENT TEAM IS DOING TO

1:20:52 ADDRESS SAFETY, MOBILITY, UH,

1:20:53 AND CURB ACCESS CITYWIDE.

1:20:55 THANK YOU.

1:20:55 THANK YOU ALL.

1:20:56 THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:20:57 UM, AND I KNOW THIS WAS A VERY

1:20:59 DIFFICULT, UH, HEARING TO

1:21:00 NAVIGATE JUST BECAUSE I KIND

1:21:02 OF DEMANDED THAT YOU ALL BE

1:21:03 HERE AND THIS WAS THE TIMING

1:21:04 THAT YOU WERE RUNNING OUR WHOLE

1:21:06 PUBLIC WORKS, OUR, UM, OUR

1:21:08 STREETS CABINET AND, UM, THE

1:21:10 CURBSIDE MANAGEMENT AND THE

1:21:12 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT.

1:21:13 SO THE FACT THAT WE GOT YOU ALL

1:21:14 HERE I'M JUST REALLY PROUD OF I

1:21:16 KNOW THAT MY COLLEAGUES HAD

1:21:17 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS THAT WE

1:21:18 DON'T HAVE TIME FOR AND WE

1:21:19 ACTUALLY HAVE A CAMBRIDGE CITY

1:21:21 COUNCILOR, UM, TO TO GO TO SOME

1:21:24 OF THE QUESTIONS THAT

1:21:25 COUNCILOR CULPEPER WAS ASKING.

1:21:26 WE HAVE A CAMBRIDGE CITY

1:21:27 COUNCILOR WHO IS ON ZOOM WHO'S

1:21:28 GOING TO TESTIFY SOON UM,

1:21:30 REGARDING WHAT THEY'VE DONE IN

1:21:32 CAMBRIDGE.

1:21:32 UM, SO I JUST WANT TO TELL MY

1:21:35 COLLEAGUES UM, WE WILL HAVE

1:21:36 TIME FOR CLOSING STATEMENTS.

1:21:37 SO ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS

1:21:38 THAT YOU'D LIKE TO GET ON THE

1:21:40 RECORD?

1:21:40 WE WILL DEFINITELY SEND A

1:21:41 COMMITTEE REPORT AND AND GET

1:21:43 ANSWERS TO ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS

1:21:44 THAT WE HAVE.

1:21:46 UM I DO JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:21:47 THAT THE UM THAT WE THANK THE

1:21:50 WORK OF BOTH THE BIKE BUREAU UM

1:21:52 AND BIKE LANES BLOCKED.

1:21:53 THESE ARE TWO UM ADVOCACY

1:21:55 ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE DOING

1:21:56 WORK TO COLLECT INFORMATION

1:21:58 ABOUT OUR CITY.

1:21:59 I JUST I WANT US TO ALL AS A

1:22:02 CITY THINK OF THIS ADVOCACY

1:22:03 THAT THEY'RE DOING UM, AS

1:22:06 SOMETHING THAT'S HELPFUL

1:22:07 BECAUSE I THINK IT'S REALLY

1:22:09 IMPORTANT THAT WITHOUT THAT

1:22:10 INFORMATION AND I'D LIKE TO

1:22:12 JUST REQUEST THAT WE KIND

1:22:14 OF BRING THOSE FOLKS IN IN A

1:22:15 MORE FORMAL WAY, UH, TO MAKE

1:22:17 SURE THAT THEY HAVE A MEETING

1:22:19 IN THE TRANSPORTATION

1:22:20 DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THEY ARE

1:22:22 ABSOLUTELY DOING THAT WORK.

1:22:23 UM, I'LL JUST SAY THAT THIS WAS

1:22:25 KIND OF A FUNNY THING THAT THE

1:22:26 BIKE BUREAU PUT OUT AND IT'S

1:22:27 EVERY BLOCK IT'S EVERY PICTURE

1:22:29 AT CITY HALL IN FRONT OF CITY

1:22:30 HALL OF EVERY BLOCKED BIKE UM

1:22:33 FROM FROM IN SEPTEMBER 2026.

1:22:36 SO UM SO THANK YOU TO ALL TO

1:22:37 BEING HERE.

1:22:38 UM WE ARE GOING TO GO TO UM

1:22:40 TIFFANY CARGILL FROM THE BOSTON

1:22:42 CYCLISTS UNION FIRST.

1:22:43 UM AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO HEAD

1:22:45 UM I'D LIKE TO LEAVE THE PANEL

1:22:46 NOW THOUGH BECAUSE I KNOW YOU

1:22:48 GUYS ALL HAVE TO GO.

1:22:48 UM, WE'RE AND I JUST WOULD

1:22:50 REQUEST THAT YOU ALL VIEW THE

1:22:51 TESTIMONY AFTER THE FACT.

1:22:53 THANK YOU.

1:22:54 UM.

1:22:57 SO, TIFFANY, UM, YOU ARE YOU

1:23:00 HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:23:02 I JUST WANT TO WAIT FOR THEM

1:23:03 TO.

1:23:06 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:23:07 TIFFANY.

1:23:07 GO AHEAD.

1:23:09 OKAY.

1:23:10 GOOD MORNING.

1:23:10 UH, CHAIR.

1:23:12 COUNCILOR JURGEN, THANK YOU FOR

1:23:13 HOLDING THIS HEARING AND

1:23:14 MEMBERS OF COMMITTEE FOR BEING

1:23:15 PRESENT.

1:23:16 TIFFANY COLE, INTERIM EXECUTIVE

1:23:18 DIRECTOR FOR THE BOSTON

1:23:20 CYCLISTS UNION.

1:23:21 SO WE KNOW THAT INFRASTRUCTURE

1:23:23 FOR CYCLISTS IS OUR BEST LINE

1:23:25 OF PROTECTION.

1:23:27 SO THEREFORE A BLOCKED BIKE

1:23:28 LANE IS A CRASH WAITING TO

1:23:29 HAPPEN.

1:23:30 RIDERS PEOPLE WITH THE LEAST

1:23:32 PROTECTION HAVE TO BREAK

1:23:35 UNEXPECTEDLY OR SWERVE INTO

1:23:36 MOVING TRAFFIC A STUDENT RIDING

1:23:38 SCHOOL, A MOM CARRYING HER

1:23:40 CHILDREN IN A CARGO BIKE, A

1:23:41 DELIVERY WORKER, A NEIGHBOR WHO

1:23:42 RIDES BECAUSE IT'S THE BEST WAY

1:23:44 FOR THEM TO GET AROUND.

1:23:45 THESE LANES WERE BUILT FOR

1:23:46 THEIR SAFETY.

1:23:47 WHEN WE ALLOW BIKE LANES TO BE

1:23:49 BLOCKED, IT'S A SIGNAL THAT

1:23:51 CYCLISTS AND THEIR SAFETY IS

1:23:53 NOT PRIORITIZED AND IT'S ALSO A

1:23:55 SIGNAL TO ALREADY PRIORITIZED

1:23:57 ROAD USERS THAT THE MOST

1:23:59 VULNERABLE ARE NOT SAFE AND

1:24:01 THEIR SAFETY COMES SECOND.

1:24:04 ENFORCEMENT ULTIMATELY PREVENTS

1:24:06 HARM.

1:24:06 WE THINK THE CITY FOR THE

1:24:07 RECENT FOCUS ON TICKETING,

1:24:09 HOWEVER SAFETY CAMERAS HAVE

1:24:11 BEEN PROVEN TO INCENTIVIZE LAW

1:24:13 ADHERENCE AND IS UNBIASED AND

1:24:15 SAFER FOR ALL INVOLVED,

1:24:17 INCLUDING THE PARKING CLERKS.

1:24:18 I'M ASKING THIS COMMITTEE TO

1:24:20 UPLIFT, SUPPORT AND PUSH FOR

1:24:22 EVENTUAL CAMERA ENFORCEMENT

1:24:24 OF BIKE LANE OBSTRUCTIONS.

1:24:26 FURTHER ENFORCEMENT TO KEEP

1:24:28 BIKE LANES CLEAR SHOULD APPLY

1:24:30 TO EVERYONE.

1:24:30 SO WHEN OFFICERS AND OTHER CITY

1:24:32 OFFICIALS PARK IN PARK BIKE

1:24:34 LANES, THEY TEACH THE PUBLIC

1:24:35 THAT THE LAW IS OPTIONAL AND

1:24:37 THAT OUR LIVES ARE AN

1:24:39 INCONVENIENCE.

1:24:40 REQUIRE EVERY CITY OFFICIAL AND

1:24:42 POLICE OFFICER TO SET AN

1:24:43 EXAMPLE, STAY OUT OF THE BIKE

1:24:45 LANES AND REPORT VIOLATIONS

1:24:47 PUBLICLY.

1:24:48 AS YOU SAID EARLIER, YOU

1:24:50 ALLUDED TO A RECENT INCIDENT IN

1:24:54 A BIKE LANE.

1:24:55 BIKE LANES HAVE TO BE KEPT IN

1:24:57 GOOD REPAIR.

1:24:58 A LANE WITH POTHOLES AND DEBRIS

1:25:00 ISN'T A LANE AT ALL IT'S A TRAP

1:25:02 A SAFETY HAZARD.

1:25:04 LASTLY, WHEN A VEHICLE IN OR

1:25:06 ENTERING A BIKE LANE CAUSES A

1:25:08 CRASH WITH OR WITHOUT CONTACT,

1:25:10 SOMEONE MUST BE ACCOUNTABLE.

1:25:12 REQUIRE POLICE REPORTS TO

1:25:14 RECORD THE INJURY AND DAMAGE SO

1:25:16 EVERY CRASH IS COUNTED AND

1:25:17 EVERY PERSON IMPACTED CAN

1:25:19 ACCESS THE INSURANCE COVERAGE

1:25:20 THEY'RE OWED.

1:25:21 WHAT ISN'T RECORDED CAN'T BE

1:25:23 FIXED AND A MONETARY

1:25:25 CONSEQUENCE SIMILAR TO OTHER

1:25:26 ROAD CRASHES WOULD BE A

1:25:28 POWERFUL DETERRENT.

1:25:29 ACCOUNTABILITY CAN CHANGE THE

1:25:31 MINDSET AROUND IMPORTANCE

1:25:33 OF BIKE LANES FOR THE SAFETY

1:25:34 OF CYCLISTS.

1:25:35 MOBILITY JUSTICE MEANS EVERY

1:25:37 RIDER IS PROTECTED IN EVERY

1:25:39 NEIGHBORHOOD.

1:25:40 BOSTON MUST DO BETTER SO I ASK

1:25:42 THAT THESE COMMITMENTS BE TAKEN

1:25:45 INTO CONSIDERATION TODAY.

1:25:46 THANK YOU.

1:25:46 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:25:48 UM, NEXT UM ON ZOOM WE HAVE

1:25:50 COUNCILOR PATRICIA NOLAN UM,

1:25:52 FROM CAMBRIDGE.

1:25:53 UM, THEY'RE GOING TO SPEAK TO

1:25:54 SOME OF THE WORK THAT THEY'VE

1:25:56 DONE.

1:25:56 UM THEY ARE IN SOME WAYS LIGHT

1:25:58 YEARS AHEAD, UM, ON SAFETY

1:26:00 PROJECTS AND UH, GRATEFUL TO

1:26:03 COUNCILOR PATRICIA NOLAN FOR

1:26:04 BEING HERE.

1:26:05 UM, I'M GIVING EACH OF THESE

1:26:07 SORT OF SELECTED TESTIMONIES

1:26:09 THREE MINUTES AND THEN THE

1:26:11 TESTIMONY FOR SIGN UP.

1:26:12 WE'RE GIVING EVERYONE TWO

1:26:13 MINUTES.

1:26:14 UM.

1:26:14 THANK YOU.

1:26:15 OH, AM I READY?

1:26:17 THANK COUNCILOR DURKAN.

1:26:18 PATRICIA, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU

1:26:20 CAN HEAR ME.

1:26:20 I AM SO EXCITED.

1:26:21 FOR THIS HEARING.

1:26:22 THANK YOU TO.

1:26:23 CHAIR DURKAN AND TO THE WHOLE

1:26:24 COMMITTEE.

1:26:25 UH, THIS CAME OUT OF, UM, OUR

1:26:28 WE HAVE FOLLOWED THE SAME PATH

1:26:29 AS BOB AS BOSTON AND AS HAS

1:26:31 BEEN MENTIONED IT WAS ALL ABOUT

1:26:32 VISION ZERO, ABOUT OUR SAFETY

1:26:33 PLAN AND ABOUT HOW IS IT THAT

1:26:35 WE CAN ENSURE THAT HANDICAPPED

1:26:37 SPOTS, BIKE LANES, THAT

1:26:39 HYDRANTS THAT THOSE PARKING

1:26:41 OFFICERS WHO CANNOT BE THERE

1:26:43 EVERYWHERE LET'S MAKE SURE THAT

1:26:44 WE CAN GET PEOPLE GOOD IDEA

1:26:46 RIGHT.

1:26:46 WELL AS YOU HAVE FOUND OUT UM I

1:26:48 READ ABOUT IT IN SOMERVILLE.

1:26:50 SOMERVILLE REPORTED IN THE

1:26:51 GLOBE THIS IS NOW THREE YEARS

1:26:52 AGO ABOUT THEIR GREAT

1:26:54 INNOVATION USING A PARTICULAR

1:26:55 TECHNOLOGY SAFETY STICK.

1:26:57 IT IS EVOLVED SO THAT SOLVES

1:26:58 THE PROBLEM AND I THOUGHT GREAT

1:26:59 LET'S DO IT.

1:27:00 I PUT IN A POLICY ORDER.

1:27:01 IT TURNS OUT AS YOU'VE ALL

1:27:03 HEARD I BELIEVE THERE'S A

1:27:04 QUIRKY STATE LAW UH, CHAPTER 90

1:27:06 SECTION 28.5 THAT APPLIES ONLY

1:27:09 TO CAMBRIDGE AND BOSTON.

1:27:11 SO WE COULDN'T DO THAT.

1:27:12 WE COULDN'T ISSUE AND JUST

1:27:13 ADOPT WHAT SOMERVILLE AND MANY

1:27:14 OTHER CITIES HAVE IN BOSTON

1:27:15 COUNTY THERE THE HOME RULE TAB

1:27:17 IS ONE THAT WE WE TOOK.

1:27:19 SO I VERY MUCH HOPE THAT BOSTON

1:27:21 JOINS US IN ASKING FOR

1:27:22 PERMISSION TO ISSUE TICKETS FOR

1:27:23 PARKING VIOLATIONS.

1:27:24 WE DID TAKE THAT HOME RULE PATH

1:27:26 .

1:27:26 I WILL SAY IT TOOK A WHILE AND

1:27:28 I HOPE YOU LOOK AT THE UM HUM

1:27:29 WELL UH THAT ACTUALLY PASSED

1:27:31 BECAUSE WHAT WE SUBMITTED ENDED

1:27:33 UP HAVING SOME QUESTIONS FROM

1:27:34 THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON

1:27:36 TRANSPORTATION AND FROM THE

1:27:36 STATE, UH, FOLKS WHO WERE

1:27:38 CONCERNED ABOUT SOME OF THE

1:27:40 LANGUAGE.

1:27:40 SO WE AMENDED THE LANGUAGE AND

1:27:41 THEN THE HOME RULE DID FINALLY

1:27:43 PASS JUST LAST YEAR AND WE ARE

1:27:45 IN THE MIDST OF ABOUT TO DEPLOY

1:27:48 OUR PROGRAM.

1:27:49 UM, AS YOU ALL ALSO KNOW THAT

1:27:52 PEOPLE SAY, WELL, DO WE STILL

1:27:53 NEED TO DO THIS BECAUSE THE

1:27:54 STATE LAW CHANGE WITH CAMERAS

1:27:55 ALLOWED ON ON BUSSES THAT DOES

1:27:57 NOT SOLVE IT.

1:27:58 AND WHAT YOU'VE HEARD TODAY UM,

1:28:00 PEDESTRIANS AND BIKE LANES AND

1:28:01 OTHERS IN ORDER TO ENSURE

1:28:02 SAFETY FOR ALL THERE IS NO

1:28:05 REASON THAT WE SHOULD NOT BE

1:28:06 ABLE TO AS A CITY BE ABLE TO

1:28:08 ISSUE TICKETS FOR PARKING

1:28:09 VIOLATIONS BY CAMERA AND BY

1:28:10 MAIL.

1:28:11 AND YET THE STATE LAW THAT

1:28:12 PREVENTS US FROM THAT UM THIS

1:28:14 PARTICULAR UM BILL WOULD ALLOW

1:28:16 YOU TO DO THAT AND IT FREES UP

1:28:18 THE THE PARKING IF OFFICERS

1:28:19 FROM DOING OTHER WORK AND THEY

1:28:21 CAN'T BE THERE AS I BELIEVE YOU

1:28:23 HEARD EARLIER FROM

1:28:23 COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU KNOW YOU

1:28:25 CAN'T DEPLOY A PARKING OFFICER

1:28:27 EVERY TIME THERE'S A VIOLATION

1:28:29 THEY MAY LEAVE TOO QUICKLY AND

1:28:30 THEN YOU JUST DO NOT HAVE

1:28:32 CONSEQUENCES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE

1:28:34 ENDANGERING, UH, OUR OUR

1:28:36 RESIDENTS AND OUR CITIZENS.

1:28:37 SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT.

1:28:39 HAPPY TO, UH I BELIEVE I'VE

1:28:40 SENT IT ALREADY TO CHAIR DURKAN

1:28:41 AND HAPPY TO SEND MORE

1:28:43 INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PATH TO

1:28:44 GET THERE.

1:28:45 WE ARE THERE.

1:28:45 I WILL BE HAPPY TO REPORT IT

1:28:47 DID WORK AND I THINK BOSTON

1:28:48 SHOULD JOIN US TOO IN

1:28:50 ADDRESSING THE GLITCHES IN UH,

1:28:52 CHAPTER UH, 28.5.

1:28:54 SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:28:55 THAT'S IT.

1:28:56 UNLESS THERE'S QUESTIONS I'M

1:28:57 HAPPY TO TO SUPPORT YOU ALL IN

1:28:58 THIS JOURNEY.

1:28:59 THANK YOU SO MUCH COUNCILOR.

1:29:00 AND I KNOW THAT COUNCILOR PEPEN

1:29:02 AND I ARE PLANNING TO FILE THAT

1:29:04 SOON.

1:29:04 SO WE'RE WORKING HARD AND I

1:29:07 THINK THAT I KNOW THE ADMIN HAS

1:29:08 BEEN WORKING WITH THE STATE

1:29:10 HOUSE AND BEEN TALKING TO FOLKS

1:29:11 AND I JUST WANT TO THANK I KNOW

1:29:14 UM STEVE STEVE OWENS, MY DEAR

1:29:16 FRIEND WAS I KNOW YOUR CHAMPION

1:29:17 IN THE HOUSE AND WE'VE GOT A

1:29:18 LOT OF CHAMPIONS IN THE HOUSE

1:29:20 IN THE SENATE FOR STREET

1:29:21 SAFETY.

1:29:22 AND SO UM OBVIOUSLY WE GOT TO

1:29:25 WE GOT TO GET OUR DUCKS IN

1:29:26 ORDER AND MAKE SURE THAT THE

1:29:28 WAY THAT WE DRAFTED IS EXACTLY

1:29:29 HOW THE STATE HOUSE WANTS.

1:29:31 BUT WE KNOW IT CAN BE QUIRKY

1:29:32 AND UM, DEFINING IT AS

1:29:35 AMENDABLE IS THE MOST ONE

1:29:36 OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IS

1:29:37 THAT THEY CAN AMEND IT IN

1:29:38 COMMITTEE.

1:29:39 SO UM SO WE'RE WORKING ON THAT

1:29:41 AND UM, PART OF THIS HEARING

1:29:43 WAS REALLY TO GET SOME FLAHERTY

1:29:46 ON WHAT THE CITY'S DOING AND

1:29:48 THAT THAT WAS THE

1:29:50 RECOMMENDATION THAT THE THAT

1:29:51 THE THAT OUR CHIEF AND OTHER

1:29:53 FOLKS WOULD WANT AND AND AND I.

1:29:55 I JUST WANT TO GIVE IT SENATOR

1:29:56 WILL BROWNSBURG OFFICE ALSO WAS

1:29:58 PRETTY INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING

1:29:59 THROUGH THAT SO THANK YOU SO.

1:30:00 MUCH YEAH YES AND HE BIKES

1:30:03 EVERYWHERE YEAH WE KNOW FROM

1:30:04 HIS SAFETY VEST SO UM THANK

1:30:07 YOU.

1:30:07 AND SO WE ARE EXCITED UH

1:30:10 BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF PUBLIC

1:30:12 TESTIMONY I WANT TO THANK

1:30:13 EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN WILLING TO

1:30:14 WAIT.

1:30:15 UM, I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT

1:30:16 TO GET THE ADMIN THROUGH, BUT,

1:30:18 UM, COUNCILOR, YOU ARE RELIEVED

1:30:19 AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR ALL

1:30:20 OF YOUR LEADERSHIP ACROSS THE

1:30:22 RIVER AND WE'LL BE CHATTING

1:30:23 WITH YOU SOON.

1:30:24 UM, SO FIRST, UM, WE HAVE JERRY

1:30:28 .

1:30:28 UH, NO, UH UH, FRIEND OF OUR

1:30:32 OFFICE.

1:30:32 THANK YOU, JERRY, FOR ALL YOUR

1:30:33 WORK.

1:30:35 UH, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

1:30:36 OKAY.

1:30:37 UM.

1:30:37 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

1:30:39 UM, I THINK THAT THE TWO

1:30:41 BIGGEST THINGS THAT I'M REALLY

1:30:43 QUITE FRUSTRATED WITH RIGHT

1:30:44 NOW, HONESTLY WITH THE CITY, UM

1:30:47 ,IS TRANSPARENCY.

1:30:49 UM, I THINK THIS IS A THEME FOR

1:30:51 ME THAT IS WAS APPARENT TODAY

1:30:52 THROUGHOUT UM, THE THE PANEL.

1:30:55 UM SO I APPRECIATE THAT, CHRIS

1:30:57 .

1:30:57 AND YOU KNOW, THE PANELS THE

1:30:59 PANELISTS UP HERE TOOK SOME

1:31:00 TIME TO SHARE SOME DATA ON

1:31:02 IMPROVED AND INCREASED

1:31:02 ENFORCEMENT AND THAT THERE

1:31:04 ACTUALLY HAS BEEN MORE

1:31:06 ENFORCEMENT AND WE BROUGHT HE

1:31:07 BROUGHT THE NUMBERS TO SHOW

1:31:08 THAT.

1:31:08 BUT I REALLY THINK THAT THIS

1:31:10 DATA NEEDS TO BE PUBLICLY

1:31:11 ACCESSIBLE AND THIS WAS A

1:31:12 COMMITMENT THAT THE MAYOR HAD

1:31:14 MADE IN HER JULY 24TH LETTER

1:31:16 THAT SHE SAID THAT THERE WOULD

1:31:17 BE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE DATA ON

1:31:20 WHERE BPD UM OR YOU ARE ISSUING

1:31:24 MORE TICKETS AND I THINK WE

1:31:26 HAVE YET TO SEE THAT AND I

1:31:27 REALLY THINK THAT'S REALLY

1:31:28 IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE

1:31:29 ABLE TO HOLD THE CITY

1:31:30 ACCOUNTABLE AND SEE WHERE

1:31:31 ACTUALLY THEY'RE ENFORCING AND

1:31:33 TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE DOING

1:31:34 IT EQUITABLY AND THAT THEY

1:31:35 ACTUALLY ARE DOING MORE

1:31:38 ENFORCEMENT.

1:31:38 UM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT

1:31:43 LEADS INTO MY SECOND POINT THAT

1:31:44 LIKE AGAIN, WE NEED MORE

1:31:45 TRANSPARENCY BETWEEN CITY AND

1:31:47 COMMUNITY MEMBERS.

1:31:47 UM, THE CITY HAS BEGUN MEETING

1:31:49 WITH ADVOCATES AGAIN LIKE

1:31:50 MYSELF I'M WITH A BUSINESS LIKE

1:31:52 THIS YEAR AND ALSO I DIDN'T

1:31:53 INTRODUCE MYSELF I APOLOGIZE

1:31:54 I'M A MEMBER OF AUSTIN A

1:31:55 COMMUNITY MEMBER OF AUSTIN

1:31:56 BRIGHTON AS WELL.

1:31:57 UM, AND THE CITY HAS BEGUN

1:31:59 MEETING AGAIN WITH ADVOCATES I

1:32:00 APPRECIATE THAT.

1:32:01 UM, AND YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD SOME

1:32:02 GREAT CONVERSATIONS WITH CHRIS.

1:32:04 UM, BUT THERE THIS WEEK I FOUND

1:32:07 OUT ACTUALLY FROM JUST WITH MY

1:32:08 OWN TWO EYES THAT WESTERN HAVE

1:32:10 NOW HAS MARKINGS FOR FLEX BOWS

1:32:11 TO BE REPLACED AND I KNOW THAT

1:32:14 COUNCILOR BRAEDEN AND UM

1:32:15 COMMUNITY ADVOCATES HAVE BEEN

1:32:16 PUSHING FOR THIS FOR A WHILE

1:32:17 AND I JUST WANT TO SEE THIS

1:32:20 COMMUNICATION LIKE I DON'T WANT

1:32:22 TO BE ABLE TO FIND OUT LIKE I

1:32:24 WANT TO FIND OUT ABOUT THESE

1:32:26 CHANGES FROM THE CITY ITSELF

1:32:27 AND NOT BE A COMMUNITY MEMBER

1:32:28 AND ME BEING THE ONE

1:32:30 COMMUNICATING THESE CHANGES TO

1:32:31 MY CITY COUNCILORS AND TO MY

1:32:34 OWN LIAISON AS WELL.

1:32:35 SO I WANT MORE DATA SO WE CAN

1:32:37 ADVOCATE FOR OURSELVES AND

1:32:38 TRANSPARENCY SO THAT WE KNOW

1:32:39 WHAT'S HAPPENING AND CAN AGAIN

1:32:40 ADVOCATE BETTER FOR OURSELVES.

1:32:42 THANK YOU.

1:32:42 THANK YOU SO MUCH JERRY.

1:32:44 UM, NEXT UM, KRISTEN PETERSON.

1:32:47 I'M GOING TO LET HIM GO FIRST.

1:32:49 OH OKAY.

1:32:49 PERFECT.

1:32:50 UM, GO AHEAD WITH THE BABY AND

1:32:51 THEN KRISTEN STEVENS GURSKY UM

1:32:54 JOHN ONE WENT IN BORN JUST SO

1:32:56 YOU ARE READY TO GO.

1:32:58 UM, HI, I'M PATTY MAUER.

1:33:00 I LIVE IN BEACON HILL.

1:33:01 THIS IS MY DAUGHTER CLAIRE.

1:33:02 SHE ALSO LIVES IN BEACON HILL.

1:33:04 WE BIKE EVERY DAY TO DAY CARE

1:33:06 AND BECAUSE WE BIKE WE'RE NOT A

1:33:07 CAR BLOCKING TRAFFIC.

1:33:09 UH, WHEN THERE ARE CARS IN BIKE

1:33:11 LANES IT MAKES US BOTH UNSAFE

1:33:13 AND I WISH THE CITY WOULD TAKE

1:33:16 OUR SAFETY SERIOUSLY.

1:33:19 SO THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY AND

1:33:20 THANK YOU FOR HAVING THIS

1:33:21 MEETING.

1:33:22 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:33:23 AND I THANK YOU FOR UM, BEING,

1:33:25 YOU KNOW, GREAT DISTRICT EIGHT

1:33:27 RESIDENT GETTING AROUND

1:33:28 MULTIMODAL.

1:33:29 UM, JONATHAN LANDSEA I FORGOT

1:33:31 TO UH SORRY.

1:33:32 GO AHEAD AND CHRIS GO AHEAD

1:33:33 KRISTEN BUT I FORGOT TO TAKE

1:33:35 JONATHAN FIRST.

1:33:36 SO YOU'RE NEXT.

1:33:37 OKAY.

1:33:37 UH, MY NAME IS KRISTEN

1:33:38 PETERSON.

1:33:39 I'M A RESIDENT OF WEST ROXBURY

1:33:40 .

1:33:40 UM, I WANT TO SPEAK TODAY ABOUT

1:33:42 THE CENTER STREET BIKE LANE IN

1:33:43 WEST ROXBURY.

1:33:44 FOR MY EXPERIENCE AS A REGULAR

1:33:46 CYCLE COMMUTER, MOTHER OF A

1:33:47 YOUNG STUDENT AND THE ORGANIZER

1:33:49 OF THE LONDON BIKE BUS, I

1:33:50 REGULARLY BIKE DOWN CENTER

1:33:51 STREET IN THE PARKING PROTECTED

1:33:52 BIKE LANE UM OFTEN WITH MY OWN

1:33:55 CHILD AND OR GROUP OF STUDENTS

1:33:56 FOR WEEKLY RIDES AFTER THE

1:33:58 PROTECTED LANES WENT IN A FEW

1:34:00 YEARS AGO I WATCHED IN JOY AS

1:34:01 SO MANY PEOPLE ESPECIALLY

1:34:03 FAMILIES WITH KIDS USE THE BIKE

1:34:04 LANES TO SAFELY GET TO AND FROM

1:34:06 WORK, SCHOOL, DAYCARE, THE

1:34:07 LIBRARY AND OTHER PLACES AT THE

1:34:10 SAME TIME.

1:34:10 MY JOY IS DAMPENED WHEN I SEE A

1:34:12 PARENT WITH A YOUNG CHILD ON

1:34:13 THE BACK OF A CARGO BIKE

1:34:14 NEEDING TO BIKE INTO TRAFFIC

1:34:15 BECAUSE THE BIKE LANE IS

1:34:16 BLOCKED OR A CHILD RIDING THEIR

1:34:18 BIKE TO SCHOOL AND HAVING TO

1:34:19 SQUEEZE THROUGH A FOOT OF SPACE

1:34:21 IN THE BIKE LANE WHEN A LARGE

1:34:22 TRUCK IS PARKED TAKING UP MOST

1:34:24 OF THE BIKE LANE.

1:34:25 THIS IS A FAIRLY REGULAR

1:34:26 OCCURRENCE WHEN CARS PARKED

1:34:28 ALONG THE CURB OR IN THE BUFFER

1:34:29 ZONE.

1:34:30 THIS FORCES BIKES INTO TRAFFIC

1:34:32 OR CYCLISTS NEED TO SLOW DOWN

1:34:34 TO SQUEEZE THROUGH UM TO GET

1:34:35 PAST THE MOST COMMON OCCURRENCE

1:34:38 UM AS COUNCILOR WEBER MENTIONED

1:34:39 IS FOR CARS AND OFTEN TRUCKS TO

1:34:41 PARK IN THE SPOTS AT THE ENDS

1:34:42 OF THE BIKE LANE BLOCKING THE

1:34:43 ENTRANCE OR EXIT ENTIRELY AND

1:34:46 THIS OCCURS PRETTY MUCH EVERY

1:34:47 TIME I USE THE CENTER STREET

1:34:49 BIKE LANES OFTEN THE CARS.

1:34:50 PARK THERE WHEN THERE'S A

1:34:52 VISIBLE SPOT JUST UP AHEAD.

1:34:54 UM AND THIS CREATES A LOT

1:34:56 OF SAFETY ISSUES FOR CYCLISTS

1:34:57 AS WELL AS PEDESTRIANS BECAUSE

1:34:59 IT BLOCKS THE THE VIEWING

1:35:01 OF CROSSWALKS.

1:35:02 UM DRIVERS OFTEN DO THIS

1:35:04 BECAUSE IT'S CONVENIENT BUT IT

1:35:05 CREATES A LOT OF HAZARDS FOR

1:35:07 PEDESTRIANS AND CYCLISTS.

1:35:08 THE SIMPLE SOLUTION IS TO

1:35:10 INSTALL PROTECTIONS FOR THE

1:35:11 BIKE LANES, SMALL CURBS IN THE

1:35:12 BUFFER ZONES AND PLANTERS OR

1:35:14 OTHER LARGE BARRIERS IN THE

1:35:16 SPOTS THAT LEAD INTO AND OUT

1:35:18 OF THE BIKE LANES.

1:35:19 BECAUSE BTD IS NOT ABLE TO

1:35:21 CONSTANTLY BE MONITORING THESE

1:35:23 SPACES UM A PHYSICAL BARRIER

1:35:25 WILL MAKE IT EASIER AND ALSO

1:35:27 WILL MAKE IT MORE GENTLER

1:35:28 APPROACH THEN UM DOING A LOT

1:35:31 OF TICKETING WHEN A CAR BLOCKS

1:35:32 THE LANES.

1:35:33 UM WE AS BOSTONIANS.

1:35:34 NEED TO.

1:35:35 SHIFT OUR VIEW TO THINK WHY

1:35:36 DO WE PRIORITIZE THE

1:35:37 CONVENIENCE OF DRIVERS OVER THE

1:35:38 SAFETY OF OTHER PEOPLE GETTING

1:35:40 AROUND OUR CITY?

1:35:41 THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE

1:35:42 TIME.

1:35:42 THANK YOU SO MUCH KRISTEN.

1:35:43 SORRY.

1:35:44 WE'RE GOING TO TAKE JONATHAN

1:35:45 LANZA OUT OF ORDER.

1:35:47 HE IS UM ALSO KNOWN AS THE BIKE

1:35:49 BUREAU.

1:35:50 UM THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT

1:35:51 YOU'VE PUT IN AND YOUR ADVOCACY

1:35:53 IS SORT OF INCREDIBLE.

1:35:54 SO WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU

1:35:55 THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK ON YOUR

1:35:56 WORK.

1:35:57 HI.

1:35:58 OH, SORRY.

1:35:58 ARE YOU JONATHAN?

1:35:59 OH YEAH.

1:36:00 OKAY.

1:36:00 PERFECT.

1:36:01 HEY.

1:36:02 THANKS SO MUCH EVERYONE FOR

1:36:03 BEING HERE AND COUNCILOR.

1:36:04 DURKAN FOR PUTTING THIS

1:36:05 TOGETHER.

1:36:05 SO I AS YOU SAID I'M JONATHAN

1:36:08 I'M REPRESENTING THE BIKE

1:36:09 BUREAU WHICH IS A GROUP

1:36:10 OF PEOPLE WHO REALLY STEPPED UP

1:36:12 IN REPORTING PEOPLE BLOCKING

1:36:14 BIKE LANES SINCE ABOUT JUNE.

1:36:16 UM, AND SO I'M GOING TO

1:36:19 PROVIDE.

1:36:19 TESTIMONY FIRST ABOUT THE

1:36:21 QUANTITY.

1:36:21 SO AS YOU SEE ON THAT PAPER

1:36:23 THERE IT'S ABOUT 1500 REPORTS

1:36:25 JUST IN SEPTEMBER ALONE.

1:36:27 SO THIS IS REGULARLY HAPPENING

1:36:28 AND TO VISUALIZE THAT WE CAN

1:36:30 IMAGINE IF WE TOOK THIS HUGE

1:36:31 CITY HALL.

1:36:32 HOLLOWED IT OUT.

1:36:33 AND FILLED IT WITH CARS THAT

1:36:35 WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH SPACE IN

1:36:37 HERE AND SO IT WOULD FILL CITY

1:36:38 HALL AND THEN IT WOULD ALSO

1:36:40 FILL THE COURTYARD.

1:36:42 SO YEAH.

1:36:42 SO IT'S PRETTY SERIOUS AND YOU

1:36:43 MIGHT THINK THAT MAYBE WE HAVE

1:36:45 LIKE A WHOLE ARMY OF PEOPLE

1:36:46 THAT ARE GOING REPORTING IT'S

1:36:47 ACTUALLY ABOUT 150 PEOPLE THAT

1:36:50 MADE THOSE REPORTS IN BOSTON.

1:36:52 AND SO THIS IS A REALLY SERIOUS

1:36:54 PROBLEM THAT UH, YOU KNOW, YOU

1:36:56 BASICALLY CAN'T BIKE ANYWHERE

1:36:57 WITHOUT HAVING A BLOCK BIKE

1:36:58 LANE AS YOU KNOW.

1:36:59 BUT FOR ME THE PROBLEM ISN'T

1:37:02 ACTUALLY THE CAR PARKING IN THE

1:37:03 BIKE LANE BECAUSE I'M ACTUALLY

1:37:05 HAPPY WHEN I SEE A CAR PARKED

1:37:07 IN THE BIKE LANE AND HAVE THE

1:37:08 OPPORTUNITY TO REPORT IT TO THE

1:37:10 CITY SO THAT THERE'S A

1:37:11 PERMANENT RECORD OF THAT STREET

1:37:13 AND THAT SPOT ON THE STREET,

1:37:15 THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

1:37:17 STOPPING A CAR FROM BARRELING

1:37:18 INTO THE BIKE LANE AND CRUSHING

1:37:21 WHATEVER WAS IN THERE.

1:37:22 AND SO THE PROBLEM ISN'T PEOPLE

1:37:24 PARKING IN THE BIKE LANE.

1:37:26 THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE BIKE

1:37:27 LANES ARE NOT SAFE.

1:37:29 SO NOW I HAVE A FEW OTHER UH,

1:37:31 QUOTES FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE IN

1:37:32 THE BIKE BUREAU SO SHAME ON WU

1:37:35 THE USER SHAME WHO SAYS I'VE

1:37:37 PERSONALLY STOPPED CYCLING FOR

1:37:38 THE TIME BEING AS MY.

1:37:39 NORMAL ROUTES.

1:37:40 ARE JUST NOT SAFE ANYMORE

1:37:42 THEN SELF-POWERED ROBOT 12 ASKS

1:37:44 I FEEL AS THOUGH WE KNOW

1:37:46 EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF BIKE LANES

1:37:47 WE NEED TO KEEP US SAFE.

1:37:48 WHAT ARE THE.

1:37:49 ACTUAL BARRIERS TO PUTTING

1:37:50 THEM IN THEN DYLAN THRUSH SAYS

1:37:54 IN HIS PERFECT UTOPIA THERE

1:37:56 WOULD BE A REDUCTION IN PARKING

1:37:57 AND PHYSICALLY SEPARATED BIKE

1:37:58 LANES.

1:37:59 NOW I DON'T THINK WE NEED A

1:38:01 UTOPIA ACTUALLY.

1:38:04 UM YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE THEY

1:38:06 SAY THINGS LIKE OH THIS 18

1:38:07 WHEELER HERE IT NEEDS TO PARK

1:38:09 IN THE BIKE LANE OTHERWISE THE

1:38:10 CITY IS GOING TO FALL APART.

1:38:11 BUT IT'S NOT ACTUALLY A UTOPIA

1:38:13 THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR.

1:38:15 WE DON'T NEED TO LISTEN TO

1:38:16 THOSE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T IMAGINE

1:38:17 A SAFE CITY BECAUSE.

1:38:19 WE.

1:38:19 HAVE MANY EXAMPLES REAL

1:38:20 EXAMPLES OF THRIVING CITIES

1:38:22 THAT ARE SAFE FOR PEOPLE TO BE

1:38:24 IN THEM BIKING AND WALKING AND

1:38:25 EVERYTHING.

1:38:26 SO FOR EXAMPLE LIKE COPENHAGEN,

1:38:28 PARIS WE CAN ALSO LOOK MUCH

1:38:30 CLOSER.

1:38:30 TO.

1:38:31 HOME.

1:38:31 FOR EXAMPLE UH CAMBRIDGE AND

1:38:33 SOMERVILLE WHERE GREAT STRIDES

1:38:34 HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN RECENT YEARS

1:38:36 TO MAKE THINGS SAFER.

1:38:37 AND SO I ASK THAT WE AND ALSO

1:38:41 IF YOU LOOK AT THE MAP BY THE

1:38:42 WAY OUR MAP YOU CAN SEE EVERY

1:38:44 MARK IS A SPOT WHERE THE BIKE

1:38:47 LANE IS NOT SAFE.

1:38:48 AND THEN WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE

1:38:49 SEPARATED BIKE LANES ON THE

1:38:50 SAME MAP YOU CAN SEE THAT

1:38:52 THERE'S NO CARS.

1:38:52 PARKING IN THEM.

1:38:53 AND SO WE'RE MAKING IT EASY FOR

1:38:55 YOU.

1:38:55 WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TO DO.

1:38:56 YOU KNOW WHAT TO DO.

1:38:57 PLEASE MAKE MORE SEPARATED BIKE

1:38:59 LANES.

1:39:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:39:01 UM, JONATHAN FROM THE BIKE

1:39:03 BUREAU.

1:39:03 OKAY, SO NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO

1:39:05 BACK TO REGULAR TESTIMONY.

1:39:06 UM, WE HAVE STEVEN.

1:39:10 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

1:39:11 JOHN WENT AND BOURNE AND THEN

1:39:13 BEN CROMARTY.

1:39:17 RECKLESS DRIVING.

1:39:18 HAS NEVER BEEN WORSE.

1:39:19 EVERY TIME EVERY LIGHT

1:39:20 ACROSS DRIVERS RUN THE RED I

1:39:22 TAKE MY TODDLER TO THE TOT LOT

1:39:23 NEAR HOUSE BABY'S BARELY ABLE

1:39:25 TO WALK PLAYING AND INCHES AWAY

1:39:26 WITHOUT FAIL I WATCH DOZENS

1:39:28 OF CARS ROLL OR PLOW STRAIGHT

1:39:29 THROUGH THE FOUR WAY STOP.

1:39:31 WE CAN'T SEE ONCOMING TRAFFIC

1:39:32 WHEN WE CROSS AT CORNERS

1:39:33 BECAUSE CARS ARE NEVER TICKETED

1:39:34 FOR PARKING IN THE TOW ZONES.

1:39:36 I TRY AND GET HOME TO MY FAMILY

1:39:37 AND I HAVE TO DODGE DRIVERS

1:39:39 CONSTANTLY TRYING TO HOOK THEM

1:39:40 WHEN I HAVE THE LIGHT I'M

1:39:41 FORCED IN THE TRAFFIC UH WITH

1:39:43 MULTI TON CARS DUE TO THE

1:39:45 DOZENS OF DOUBLE PARKED CARS I

1:39:46 PASS EACH DAY.

1:39:47 WHEN WE PUT OUR DAUGHTER IN THE

1:39:48 CAR WE WITNESS DRIVERS WEAVING

1:39:49 INTO OPPOSING TRAFFIC TO MAKE

1:39:51 LEFTS AROUND TRAFFIC DURING A

1:39:53 READ.

1:39:54 I CAN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THAT AT

1:39:55 LEAST A QUARTER OF THESE

1:39:56 DRIVERS ARE STARING AT THEIR

1:39:57 PHONES AND ACTIVITY RESEARCH

1:39:58 HAS SHOWN IS WORSE THAN DRUNK

1:40:00 DRIVING.

1:40:01 EARLIER THIS WEEK, TWO BLOCKS

1:40:02 FROM MY HOME, A DRIVER PLOWED

1:40:04 THROUGH A PARKING LOT TWO

1:40:05 FENCES AND LODGED THEIR SEDAN

1:40:06 IN THE SIDE OF A MULTIFAMILY

1:40:07 HOME.

1:40:08 THE POLICE LET THE DRIVER WALK

1:40:10 AWAY ON THE LUDICROUS EXCUSE

1:40:11 THAT THEIR FOOT GOT STUCK ON

1:40:12 THE ACCELERATOR YESTERDAY AT

1:40:14 THE SAME INTERSECTION ON MY

1:40:15 MORNING COMMUTE, A DRIVER IN A

1:40:16 JEEP WAGONEER WITH A CURB

1:40:18 WEIGHT OF 6,000 POUNDS RAN A

1:40:19 RED SECONDS AFTER IT TURNED AS

1:40:21 I ON MY BIKE AND A SCHOOL BUS

1:40:22 FULL OF KIDS WAITED TO GO LAST

1:40:25 YEAR I SAW A COP CAR PARKED AT

1:40:26 THE SAME INTERSECTION WHEN I

1:40:27 NOTICED CARS RUNNING THE RED.

1:40:29 I WENT UP TO ASK WHY THEY

1:40:30 WEREN'T DOING ANYTHING.

1:40:32 THEY PRETENDED THEY COULDN'T

1:40:33 HEAR ME UNTIL I FINALLY WALKED

1:40:34 AWAY.

1:40:35 IT'S A MYSTERY HOW THESE

1:40:36 TRAGEDIES KEEP HAPPENING.

1:40:38 IF YOU ASK OUR COUNCILORS OR

1:40:39 THE MAYOR WHY THIS IS SO OFTEN

1:40:40 REPEAT WHAT BPD TELLS THEM THEY

1:40:42 DON'T HAVE A STAFF.

1:40:44 THIS IS A LIE.

1:40:45 TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT HAS

1:40:47 COLLAPSED NATIONWIDE WITH NO

1:40:49 CORRELATION TO FUNDING LEVELS

1:40:50 OR STAFFING LEVELS.

1:40:51 U.S PEDESTRIAN FATALITIES HAVE

1:40:53 UNSURPRISINGLY SKYROCKETED IN

1:40:55 PARALLEL.

1:40:55 THE ISSUE IS NOT COMPLICATED

1:40:57 OFFICERS NO LONGER FEEL AN

1:40:58 OBLIGATION TO DO THIS PART

1:40:59 OF THEIR JOB AND THE COUNCIL IS

1:41:01 NOT HELD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.

1:41:03 I 100% SUPPORT BETTER

1:41:04 INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:41:04 I THINK THE CITY SHOULD BE

1:41:06 BUILDING ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE

1:41:06 MORE.

1:41:07 IT CAN DO A LOT BUT IT CAN'T DO

1:41:09 EVERYTHING.

1:41:10 SPEED BUMPS ON FOREST HILLS

1:41:11 DIDN'T STOP THAT DRIVER FROM

1:41:12 LAUNCHING HIMSELF INTO A HOUSE.

1:41:14 THIS IS AN EPIDEMIC AND

1:41:15 CONSEQUENCES ARE THE TOOL TO

1:41:17 FIX IT.

1:41:17 WHY HAVE WE EFFECTIVELY

1:41:19 LEGALIZED NEGLIGENT AND

1:41:20 DISTRACTED DRIVING?

1:41:21 PLEASE ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING.

1:41:22 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:41:24 UM, JOHN WALDEN BORN.

1:41:29 THANK YOU FOR THE TIME.

1:41:31 UH, AND THANK YOU FOR

1:41:32 EVERYBODY FOR.

1:41:32 BEING HERE.

1:41:33 SO, UH, MY NAME IS JOHN.

1:41:34 I LIVE IN BRIGHTON.

1:41:35 ALLSTON.

1:41:35 UH, I DON'T OFTEN AGREE WITH

1:41:38 COUNCILOR FLYNN ON MUCH.

1:41:39 UH, BUT I DEFINITELY AGREED

1:41:40 WITH HIM TODAY TO THANK AND

1:41:43 PRAISE OUR PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:41:44 OFFICERS.

1:41:45 THEY DO A GREAT IMPORTANT WORK

1:41:46 .

1:41:47 UM, AND I ESSENTIALLY THINK WE

1:41:50 NEED MORE OF THEM.

1:41:51 UM, WHILE FULL BUILD, FULLY

1:41:54 SEPARATED BIKE LANES AND CAMERA

1:41:56 ENFORCEMENT ARE BETTER WAYS

1:41:58 OF PREVENTING ILLEGAL PARKING.

1:42:00 UH, I THINK ENFORCEMENT DOES GO

1:42:01 A LONG WAY.

1:42:02 IT'S DETERRENTS.

1:42:03 UH, BUT THERE IS A DEARTH

1:42:05 OF ENFORCEMENT AT LEAST FROM

1:42:06 FROM MY PERSPECTIVE IN THE CITY

1:42:09 ,UH, MOST PEOPLE I TALKED TO

1:42:10 WHETHER IT'S IN PERSON OR

1:42:12 ONLINE.

1:42:13 UH, CITE.

1:42:14 THE LACK OF ENFORCEMENT AND THE

1:42:16 OBSTACLES IN BIKE LANES AS THE

1:42:18 NUMBER ONE REASON THAT THEY

1:42:19 DON'T BIKE IN THE CITY DESPITE

1:42:21 THE THE DESIRE TO DO SO.

1:42:23 UM, AND SO AS AN ANECDOTE.

1:42:26 UH.

1:42:27 I COMMUTE ABOUT HALF AN HOUR

1:42:29 FROM BRIGHTON AUSTIN TO

1:42:30 DOWNTOWN AND BACK.

1:42:32 UH.

1:42:32 SO THAT'S ONE HOUR EVERY

1:42:33 DAY.

1:42:34 AND FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS I

1:42:35 HAVE BEEN PHOTOGRAPHING CARS,

1:42:38 SOMETIMES SUBMITTING THEM TO

1:42:39 311 AND I HAVE ACCUMULATED OVER

1:42:41 250 PHOTOGRAPHS, WHICH

1:42:43 REPRESENTS MAYBE 10% OF THE

1:42:45 CARS THAT I SEE.

1:42:46 UH, THAT'S 2500 CARS PER YEAR

1:42:50 IF ME BIKING ONE HOUR PER DAY

1:42:52 WAS TURNED INTO MORE HALF A

1:42:54 DOZEN PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:42:56 OFFICERS UH UH, WRITING TICKETS

1:42:59 FOR THREE FOUR HOURS A DAY THAT

1:43:02 IS SEVERAL MILLION DOLLARS THAT

1:43:04 THE CITY COULD BE MAKING AND IT

1:43:06 WOULD BE IMPROVING SAFETY.

1:43:08 IT WOULD BE DETERRING THESE, UH

1:43:09 ,ILLEGALLY PARKED CARS AND

1:43:11 IT'S MONEY IT'S SIGNIFICANT

1:43:12 IMPORTANT MONEY THAT WE COULD

1:43:14 USE TO.

1:43:15 FURTHER IMPROVE SAFETY.

1:43:17 AND IT'S IT'S UNCONSCIONABLE

1:43:19 THAT WE'RE NOT DOING THIS.

1:43:20 AND I WOULD BE THE FIRST TO

1:43:22 SIGN UP TO BECOME A PARKING A

1:43:24 BIKE LANE SPECIFIC PARKING

1:43:26 ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.

1:43:27 AND UH, I HOPE THAT THE CITY

1:43:31 BPD BPD DO SOMETHING.

1:43:32 ABOUT THAT.

1:43:33 THANK YOU.

1:43:33 AGAIN AND YOU CAN USE EITHER

1:43:36 MICROPHONE.

1:43:39 HI THANKS.

1:43:39 I'M BEN I LIVE IN, UH, MISSION

1:43:41 HILL JUST ON THE EDGE OF, UH,

1:43:43 SHARON DURKIN'S DISTRICT.

1:43:45 THANK YOU.

1:43:46 UH, DURKAN OR.

1:43:47 YOUR STAFF FOR.

1:43:48 NOTIFYING ME ABOUT THIS

1:43:51 MEETING.

1:43:51 UM, I'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET IN

1:43:53 TOUCH WITH COUNCIL SINCE LAST

1:43:56 WINTER WHEN THE ROADS WERE SO

1:43:57 TERRIBLE AND ICY AND THEN SINCE

1:43:59 THE DISASTER IN THE SUMMER I

1:44:01 ALSO SENT OUT A BIG BLAST.

1:44:02 I DID NOT GET RESPONSES FROM

1:44:04 UM, MY AT-LARGE COUNSELORS THAT

1:44:07 I REMEMBER BUT I APPRECIATE

1:44:08 YOUR RESPONSE.

1:44:09 UM.

1:44:13 I BIKE FROM MISSION HILL JUST

1:44:15 ABOUT EVERY DAY.

1:44:16 UM AND I, I I SUPPORT WHAT

1:44:19 EVERYONE ELSE SAYS ABOUT THE

1:44:20 INCREDIBLE LACK OF ENFORCEMENT

1:44:22 UM ON THE ROAD ON HUNTINGTON

1:44:24 AVENUE, ON UH, COMMONWEALTH

1:44:26 AVENUE IT IS.

1:44:27 JUST TOO.

1:44:28 TOO EASY TO FIND PEOPLE RUNNING

1:44:31 RED LIGHTS, BLOCKING BIKE

1:44:33 LANES, BLOCKING CROSSWALKS,

1:44:35 EVERYTHING YOU CAN IMAGINE.

1:44:36 UM, AND YOU KNOW, I STILL LOVE

1:44:40 RIDING THE CITY.

1:44:41 I CAN'T IMAGINE NOT DOING IT

1:44:42 ACTUALLY.

1:44:43 AND I FEEL I FEEL TERRIBLE

1:44:45 ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T RIDE

1:44:46 BECAUSE OF THESE OBSTACLES.

1:44:48 UM I I GUESS UH, IN A WAY I

1:44:52 DON'T FEEL SAFE.

1:44:54 UH, BUT MAYBE IT HELPS THAT I

1:44:57 FEEL LIKE I'M NOT AS SOFT AS

1:44:58 THE PEOPLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE

1:45:00 FOR ENFORCING THE RULES.

1:45:02 UH, IN THE CITY.

1:45:04 I FEEL BAD KIND OF SAYING THAT,

1:45:06 BUT, UM, LIKE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN

1:45:07 SAYING MORE TRANSPARENCY FROM

1:45:10 MY PERSPECTIVE.

1:45:11 THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.

1:45:12 IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S NO DESIRE

1:45:13 TO ENFORCE THIS.

1:45:13 THERE'S NO DESIRE.

1:45:15 UM, I DIDN'T HEAR ANYBODY SAY

1:45:16 HOW MUCH MONEY ALL THESE FINES

1:45:18 WERE WORTH THAT HAVE BEEN

1:45:19 COLLECTED IN THE LAST COUPLE

1:45:20 OF YEARS OR WHAT THE WHAT THE

1:45:23 PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO

1:45:24 ACTUALLY PAY THEM IS UM BUT.

1:45:27 IT'S JUST IT SEEMS LIKE IF YOU

1:45:30 WANT TO CONVINCE PEOPLE THAT

1:45:31 YOU'RE DOING UM WHAT NEEDS TO

1:45:35 BE DONE IN TERMS

1:45:35 OF ENFORCEMENT, WE NEED TO HEAR

1:45:37 MORE ABOUT WHAT THAT IS.

1:45:38 WHAT IS THE MONEY?

1:45:39 WHERE IS IT COMING FROM?

1:45:41 THANK YOU.

1:45:41 THANK YOU SO MUCH, SETH CROWELL

1:45:44 THEN UM, PATRICIA CONNORS,

1:45:46 PATRICK MULLEN CELESTE FOR NOW

1:45:49 GO AHEAD.

1:45:50 GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:45:51 UH, MY NAME IS SETH CROWELL.

1:45:52 I'M A RESIDENT OF JAMAICA PLAIN

1:45:54 AND, UH, I, I WORK IN THE, UH

1:45:56 IN YOUR.

1:45:57 DISTRICT.

1:45:57 UH, COUNCILWOMAN.

1:45:59 UH, DURKAN.

1:46:00 UH, I, UH I WOULD LIKE TO

1:46:02 ADDRESS A PARTICULAR PROBLEM

1:46:03 AREA THAT I'VE NOTICED ON

1:46:05 BROOKLINE AVENUE AT THE

1:46:07 INTERSECTION OF BROOKLINE

1:46:07 AVENUE AND LONGWOOD AVENUE

1:46:09 EVERY MORNING, LITERALLY EVERY

1:46:12 MORNING THERE ARE MULTIPLE

1:46:13 VEHICLES PARKED IN THE BIKE

1:46:15 LANE OVER THERE.

1:46:16 AND NOT ONLY IS IT MAKING IT

1:46:17 UNSAFE FOR CYCLISTS, BUT IT

1:46:19 ALSO PINCHES THE TRAFFIC SO IT.

1:46:20 CREATES A LOT MORE CONGESTION

1:46:22 THAT'S NEEDED.

1:46:24 I APPRECIATE BOSTON UH,

1:46:25 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT'S.

1:46:28 UH UH.

1:46:28 UH PARKING ENFORCEMENT

1:46:29 OFFICERS.

1:46:30 HOWEVER IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM

1:46:31 LIKE THEY'RE EVER OVER THERE.

1:46:33 AT LEAST IN THE MINUTES THAT

1:46:34 I'M PASSING THROUGH.

1:46:36 I WILL NOTE ALSO THAT THERE IS

1:46:38 A POLICE PRESENCE ACROSS THE

1:46:39 STREET FOR MONTHS AND THEY DO

1:46:42 NOTHING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING

1:46:44 ABOUT THE LANE VIOLATIONS THE

1:46:46 PARKING VIOLATIONS ACROSS THE

1:46:48 STREET.

1:46:49 A FEW WEEKS AGO I APPROACHED AN

1:46:50 OFFICER THAT WAS STANDING

1:46:52 LITERALLY ACROSS THE STREET

1:46:53 FROM FIVE VEHICLES PARKED IN

1:46:55 THE BIKE LANE AND THE OFFICER

1:46:56 SAID I THINK THAT THEY'RE

1:46:58 ALLOWED TO PARK THERE IF

1:47:00 THEY'RE MAKING DELIVERIES.

1:47:01 SO I THINK THERE'S A BIG

1:47:03 EDUCATION GAP OR TRAINING GAP

1:47:04 WITH BOSTON POLICE OFFICERS IN

1:47:07 TERMS OF WHAT THEIR

1:47:07 RESPONSIBILITIES ARE FOR

1:47:09 ENSURING SAFE STREETS FOR ALL

1:47:11 RESIDENTS.

1:47:12 SO THANK YOU.

1:47:12 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:47:13 UM, SOUTH AND I THINK WE'VE

1:47:15 SPOKEN ON THE PHONE.

1:47:15 ABOUT THIS.

1:47:16 PARTICULAR INTERSECTION.

1:47:17 SO UM, LOOK FORWARD TO

1:47:19 CONTINUING TO WORK ON THAT.

1:47:20 UM, PATRICIA AND THEN PATRICK

1:47:22 MULLEN UM, CLAIRE.

1:47:24 UM.

1:47:26 BOYD OR MULLEN AND THEN NEIL'S

1:47:29 TURLEY.

1:47:30 GO AHEAD.

1:47:30 THANK YOU.

1:47:31 MADAM CHAIR.

1:47:32 DURKAN AND MEMBERS OF THE

1:47:34 BOSTON.

1:47:34 CITY.

1:47:35 COUNCIL FOR HOLDING THIS

1:47:36 HEARING TO IMPROVE STREET

1:47:37 SAFETY.

1:47:38 MY NAME IS PATRICIA CONNORS AND

1:47:40 I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF WEST

1:47:42 ROCKS BIKES, A BICYCLE SAFETY

1:47:44 ADVOCACY GROUP.

1:47:45 TODAY THE MOST CRITICAL NEED IN

1:47:47 ORDER TO INCREASE SAFETY FOR

1:47:49 CYCLISTS ON CENTER STREET IS

1:47:52 SIMPLY TO INSTALL LOW CONCRETE

1:47:54 BARRIERS ON THE PERIMETER

1:47:56 OF THE EXISTING CENTER STREET

1:47:57 BIKE LANE TO MARK THE EDGE

1:47:59 OF THE PARKING ZONE.

1:48:01 CURRENTLY, MOTOR VEHICLES

1:48:02 FREQUENTLY PARK IN THE BIKE

1:48:04 LANE SUCH THAT CYCLISTS ARE

1:48:06 FORCED EITHER TO TAKE THE LANE

1:48:08 THAT IS RIGHT ON THE BUSY

1:48:10 TRAVELING OF CENTER STREET OR

1:48:12 TO DISMOUNT FROM THEIR BIKES TO

1:48:14 WALK AROUND THE ILLEGALLY

1:48:16 PARKED VEHICLES.

1:48:17 ALSO, MOTORISTS AND TRUCK

1:48:20 DRIVERS FREQUENTLY PARKED AND

1:48:22 THE THE STRIPED BUFFER ZONE

1:48:24 INCREASING THE CHANCES OF A

1:48:26 CYCLIST GETTING DOORED.

1:48:28 UNFORTUNATELY LAST YEAR A CAR

1:48:30 PASSENGER DOORED A CYCLIST IN

1:48:32 THE CENTER STREET BIKE LANE

1:48:34 WHICH REQUIRED THE CYCLIST TO

1:48:35 BE TAKEN BY AMBULANCE TO THE ER

1:48:38 .

1:48:38 THE INSTALLATION OF LOW

1:48:40 CONCRETE BARRIERS IN THE BUFFER

1:48:42 ZONE WOULD GO A LONG WAY TOWARD

1:48:44 THE REDUCTION OF THESE

1:48:46 UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENTS.

1:48:47 THE CITY DID AN AMAZING JOB

1:48:49 CONVERTING CENTER STREET FROM A

1:48:51 FULL LANE HIGHWAY TO A TWO LANE

1:48:53 STREET WITH ADDED BIKE LANES.

1:48:55 HOWEVER, THE BIKE LANES ARE

1:48:57 ONLY HALF AS EFFECTIVE AS THEY

1:48:59 COULD BE WITHOUT PHYSICAL

1:49:00 BARRIERS KEEPING THE CARS OUT

1:49:02 OF THE BIKE LANES.

1:49:03 MANY BICYCLISTS STILL DON'T

1:49:05 FEEL COMFORTABLE RIDING IN THEM

1:49:07 BECAUSE THEY ARE BLOCKED BY

1:49:09 CARS SO FREQUENTLY.

1:49:12 ANY ENCROACHMENT BY THE CARS

1:49:14 CAN MAKE THE LANE NONFUNCTIONAL

1:49:16 .

1:49:17 ALSO, THE CRAMPED BIKE LANES

1:49:18 WITHOUT PHYSICAL BARRIERS ARE

1:49:20 MORE DANGEROUS FOR CAR

1:49:22 PASSENGERS EXITING THEIR CAR

1:49:24 EXITING THEIR PARKED CARS.

1:49:26 LET'S FINISH THE JOB TO MAKE

1:49:28 THE BIKE LANES FULLY FUNCTIONAL

1:49:30 AND SAFE FOR ALL BY INSTALLING

1:49:33 INSTALLING LOW CONCRETE

1:49:35 BARRIERS BETWEEN THE PARKING

1:49:37 SPACES AND THE BIKE LANE.

1:49:39 THANK YOU THANK YOU PATRICIA.

1:49:41 WE HAVE A LOT OF AREAS IN MY

1:49:42 DISTRICT THAT ARE SIMILAR TO

1:49:43 THAT.

1:49:44 I BELIEVE PATRICK MULLEN

1:49:44 ALREADY WENT UM AND I DON'T

1:49:46 BELIEVE HIS WIFE IS HERE

1:49:47 ANYMORE.

1:49:47 SO WE'LL GO TO NEIL'S CHARLIE

1:49:49 THEN LEVY CHAN, THEN HEATHER

1:49:51 BEAR.

1:49:53 UM.

1:49:54 MADAM CHAIR, I MADE COPIES

1:49:55 OF MY PRESENTATION.

1:49:56 YOU WANT TO LEAVE THEM

1:49:57 THERE?

1:49:57 UM, I'LL PUT THEM IN THE

1:49:59 COUNCILORS MAILBOX.

1:49:59 YES.

1:50:00 THANK YOU.

1:50:05 ARE YOU NILES?

1:50:06 NILES.

1:50:08 OKAY.

1:50:08 GO AHEAD.

1:50:08 OH, GOOD.

1:50:09 GOOD AFTERNOON.

1:50:10 THANK YOU FOR CHAIR, COUNCIL.

1:50:12 MEMBERS.

1:50:12 COMMITTEE MEMBERS, EVERYONE

1:50:13 WHO IS HERE TODAY.

1:50:14 IT WAS REALLY.

1:50:15 ENLIGHTENING TO HEAR THIS.

1:50:16 CONVERSATION ABOUT BIKE SAFETY

1:50:17 PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IN THE CITY.

1:50:19 I COME.

1:50:20 AS A CITIZEN THAT LIVES IN

1:50:22 SOUTHIE AND COMMUTES TO

1:50:23 LONGWOOD.

1:50:24 IT'S A SHORT COMMUTE.

1:50:25 IT'S 20 MINUTES.

1:50:26 BIKING SHOULD NOT BE THIS

1:50:28 DIFFICULT OR UNSAFE FOR ME.

1:50:30 I FEEL.

1:50:31 A LITTLE BIT WORRIED EVERY TIME

1:50:32 I GET ONTO WASHINGTON STREET.

1:50:34 MASS AVE.

1:50:35 AND ON THE.

1:50:36 BOYLSTON STREET REPEATEDLY

1:50:38 EVEN THOUGH THERE.

1:50:39 ARE MEASURES.

1:50:39 IN PLACE AND LANES PROTECTED

1:50:41 IN SOME SITUATIONS I FEEL UH

1:50:45 UNSAFE IN CERTAIN SPOTS.

1:50:46 WHEN DRIVERS PULL INTO THE

1:50:48 LANE.

1:50:48 BLOCKING TRAFFIC BLOCKING ME,

1:50:50 MAKING ME.

1:50:51 PULL INTO.

1:50:52 ONCOMING TRAFFIC.

1:50:54 POTHOLES.

1:50:55 EVERYTHING IN THE.

1:50:55 ACTUAL ROAD.

1:50:56 .

1:50:57 UM I COME.

1:50:59 ALSO REPRESENTING A ROOMMATE

1:50:59 WHO GOT HIT RECENTLY UM EVEN

1:51:02 WITH A CAR.

1:51:03 PARKED ON.

1:51:04 A BIKE LANE PULLED OUT AND

1:51:06 THEN WENT OVER THE HOOD.

1:51:07 THESE ARE SITUATIONS THAT

1:51:08 SHOULD NOT HAPPEN DO NOT NEED

1:51:10 TO HAPPEN.

1:51:10 I THINK EVERYONE HERE TODAY IS

1:51:12 ON THE SAME SIDE SO I DON'T

1:51:13 NEED TO FIGHT YOU ON THIS BUT I

1:51:15 WOULD COME AS A CITIZEN ASKING.

1:51:17 FOR IN.

1:51:17 ORDER PREVENTATIVE MEASURES.

1:51:20 CONCRETE BARRIERS.

1:51:21 REASONS THAT CARS WILL NOT PULL

1:51:23 INTO A BIKE LANE AT ALL.

1:51:26 NEXT AUTOMATED MEASURES I WAS

1:51:27 HEARTENING TO HEAR ABOUT

1:51:28 MEASURES.

1:51:29 WHERE WE'RE PUTTING ON CAMERAS.

1:51:31 ON BUSSES.

1:51:32 UM I WASN'T.

1:51:33 AWARE THAT THERE WAS A STATE

1:51:34 LAW PREVENTING.

1:51:34 THIS.

1:51:35 BUT I WOULD BE.

1:51:36 INTRIGUED AND HAPPY TO.

1:51:37 SUPPORT ANY MEASURE THAT WE

1:51:38 COULD GET PASSED THIS.

1:51:40 AND THEN THIRD.

1:51:41 UM WITH.

1:51:42 311 ANY KIND OF REPORTING.

1:51:44 MEASURES I WOULD HOPE TO MAKE

1:51:45 THAT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE FOR

1:51:47 ME AS A BIKER AND AS QUICK AS

1:51:49 POSSIBLE FOR BPD TO COME REPORT

1:51:51 AND OR TOW THE VEHICLE ON THE

1:51:53 BIKE LANE.

1:51:54 UM.

1:51:54 ANY OF THESE CASES I JUST

1:51:56 WISH THAT WE CAN MAKE THIS AN

1:51:58 EASIER.

1:51:59 AND MORE.

1:52:00 COMMUTABLE CITY FOR PEOPLE.

1:52:01 WHO DON'T.

1:52:02 NECESSARILY WANT.

1:52:03 TO DRIVE AND.

1:52:04 MORE.

1:52:05 EASY FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT TO

1:52:05 BIKE INSTEAD.

1:52:06 THANK YOU.

1:52:07 THANK YOU SO MUCH, NILES.

1:52:09 NEAL.

1:52:10 SORRY.

1:52:12 OKAY.

1:52:12 LEVY CHEN OH.

1:52:13 I LIKE THIS.

1:52:14 OH OKAY.

1:52:15 GO AHEAD.

1:52:16 YES.

1:52:20 I KNOW OUR VIEWER VANESSA IN

1:52:22 THE HOUSE.

1:52:22 HELLO.

1:52:24 UM, HELLO.

1:52:26 UH, MY NAME IS JJ.

1:52:29 I AM.

1:52:29 ONE OF THE CO-PRESIDENTS.

1:52:30 OF THE EUROPEAN.

1:52:31 CLUB AT BU OR A CLUB THAT

1:52:33 FOCUSES ON HOW CITIES.

1:52:34 CAN MAKE OUR LIVES BETTER.

1:52:37 UM, I LIVE IN KENMORE.

1:52:38 I'M VERY GRATEFUL FOR MY CITY

1:52:41 COUNCILOR SHARON DURKAN FOR

1:52:42 TAKING THIS ISSUE SERIOUSLY.

1:52:44 UM, SO I BIKE AROUND.

1:52:46 THE CITY AND.

1:52:47 I ENCOUNTER CARS IN THE BIKE

1:52:48 LANE EVERY SINGLE TIME I RIDE

1:52:50 MY BIKE ANYWHERE I'M OFTEN TOLD

1:52:52 TO SIMPLY GO AROUND THEM BUT

1:52:54 WHEN THEY'RE SPEAKING TRAFFIC

1:52:55 IMMEDIATELY TO MY LEFT I DON'T

1:52:57 EXACTLY FEEL SAFE LEAVING.

1:52:58 THE BIKE LANE.

1:52:59 I USED TO BE A MUCH BRAVER

1:53:01 CYCLIST.

1:53:01 AND I.

1:53:02 WOULD RIDE MY BIKE ANYWAY.

1:53:03 BUT OVER.

1:53:04 THE YEARS.

1:53:04 AS I'VE HAD MORE AND MORE

1:53:05 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AND DANGEROUS

1:53:06 AND UH, DANGEROUS INTERACTIONS

1:53:09 WITH CARS.

1:53:10 I RARELY FIND MYSELF BIKING THE

1:53:12 CITY AT.

1:53:13 THIS POINT.

1:53:13 ENFORCEMENT CAN DISCOURAGE THIS

1:53:15 BEHAVIOR, BUT ENFORCEMENT

1:53:16 OFFICERS SIMPLY CAN'T BE ON

1:53:18 EVERY SINGLE STREET AT ONCE AND

1:53:20 INCREASING ENFORCEMENT WOULD

1:53:21 ALSO INCREASE ANIMOSITY BETWEEN

1:53:23 RESIDENTS AND TRAFFIC

1:53:24 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

1:53:27 AS COUNCILOR FLYNN AND UH

1:53:29 PEPEN.

1:53:29 SPOKE ON UM ADDITIONALLY, MANY

1:53:33 OF THESE BLOCKAGES.

1:53:33 ARE QUITE SHORT.

1:53:34 AND SO THE DAMAGE IS ALREADY

1:53:36 DONE BEFORE THEY CAN BE

1:53:37 ENFORCED.

1:53:38 MY HOPE IS THAT THE.

1:53:38 CITY CHOOSES TO BUILD

1:53:40 INFRASTRUCTURE THAT ENFORCES

1:53:40 THE BIKE.

1:53:41 LANES THEMSELVES.

1:53:43 UH, PROTECTED BIKE LANES KEEP

1:53:44 CARS OUT WITHOUT THE NEED TO

1:53:45 GIVE ANYONE A TICKET.

1:53:46 WE'VE SEEN THE CITY STOP

1:53:48 BUILDING THEM AND STOP

1:53:50 MAINTAINING EXISTING BIKE LANES

1:53:51 .

1:53:52 I REMEMBER TWO YEARS AGO.

1:53:54 UM.

1:53:54 A BIKE LANE ON BERKLEY

1:53:55 STREET.

1:53:56 UH, APPEARED.

1:53:57 ESSENTIALLY OVERNIGHT AND MADE

1:53:58 MY COMMUTE TO WORK ABOUT FIVE

1:54:00 MINUTES SHORTER.

1:54:01 BUT NOW THERE'S NO INFORMATION

1:54:05 ON WHETHER BIKE LANES ARE BEING

1:54:07 BUILT OR NOT.

1:54:08 AND SO THERE WAS A TIME THAT I

1:54:11 ONCE BELIEVED THE CITY CARED

1:54:12 ABOUT MY SAFETY.

1:54:14 AND NOW I'M NOT SO SURE.

1:54:16 I HOPE THE CITY CAN RESTORE MY

1:54:18 FAITH.

1:54:18 THANK YOU.

1:54:19 THANK YOU J.J..

1:54:21 I DEEPLY CARE ABOUT YOUR

1:54:22 COMMUTE AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE

1:54:23 THAT YOU CAN DRIVE SAFELY

1:54:25 WHEREVER YOU'RE GOING.

1:54:27 UM, LEVI, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO

1:54:30 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

1:54:32 HEATHER BEAR.

1:54:33 KATHY TRUONG, ELI SILVER AND

1:54:38 ALEX ALEX.

1:54:40 THAT'S THE LIST.

1:54:40 FOR NOW.

1:54:43 OKAY, PERFECT.

1:54:44 YEAH.

1:54:45 THANK YOU COUNCILOR DURKAN

1:54:46 AND EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE AND

1:54:48 RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE

1:54:49 OF THIS ISSUE.

1:54:50 MY NAME IS LEVI CHEN.

1:54:51 I'M AN AUSTIN RESIDENT.

1:54:52 I'M A BUSH SENIOR AND I'M THE

1:54:54 OTHER CO-PRESIDENT OF THE

1:54:55 URBANISM CLUB AT BU.

1:54:57 WE ARE A STUDENT GROUP.

1:54:58 YOU KNOW WELL GEORGE ALREADY

1:54:59 GAVE THE SPIEL BUT I'VE COME TO

1:55:00 HERE TODAY TO URGE FOR STRONGER

1:55:02 ENFORCEMENT OF BLOCK CROSSWALKS

1:55:03 AND BIKE LANES.

1:55:05 I'VE NOTICED HOW ILLEGAL

1:55:06 PARKING CREATES THESE ENORMOUS

1:55:07 BLIND SPOTS FOR ANYBODY USES

1:55:09 THE ROAD WHEN I AM A CYCLIST I

1:55:11 HAVE TO BE REALLY CAREFUL AND I

1:55:12 SLOW DOWN A LOT

1:55:13 OF INTERSECTIONS BECAUSE I'M

1:55:13 NOT SURE IF THE ILLEGALLY

1:55:15 PARKED CAR IN FRONT OF ME IS

1:55:16 BLOCKING MY VIEW OF A

1:55:17 PEDESTRIAN TRYING TO CROSS THE

1:55:19 ROAD.

1:55:19 IF YOU'RE A PEDESTRIAN IT IS

1:55:21 REALLY DIFFICULT FOR YOU TO SEE

1:55:23 INCOMING TRAFFIC AS WELL AND IT

1:55:25 CAN OFTENTIMES AS IT HAS BEFORE

1:55:27 CAUSED VERY DANGEROUS TRAFFIC

1:55:29 ACCIDENTS.

1:55:29 BUT I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE

1:55:30 THAT ENFORCEMENT NEEDS TO COME

1:55:32 HAND-IN-HAND WITH

1:55:33 INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:55:33 PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS

1:55:35 SHOULDN'T BE NECESSARY FOR BIKE

1:55:36 LANES TO BE CLEARED, AND THEY

1:55:37 SHOULDN'T BE PUT AT RISK

1:55:38 OF VIOLENCE WHEN THERE ARE

1:55:39 BETTER METHODS THAT ARE ALREADY

1:55:40 OUT THERE.

1:55:41 I'M STANDING HERE TO ADVOCATE

1:55:42 FOR ENFORCEMENT, BUT I DON'T

1:55:43 WANT US TO FORGET THAT SAFE

1:55:44 STREET INFRASTRUCTURE SHOULD

1:55:45 ALSO BE CONSTRUCTED AND

1:55:46 REGULARLY MAINTAINED IN

1:55:48 CONJUNCTION WITH BETTER

1:55:49 ENFORCEMENT.

1:55:50 ILLEGALLY PARKED CARS HAVE BEEN

1:55:51 A MAJOR PROBLEM ON MY

1:55:52 UNIVERSITY CAMPUS AND WE AS A

1:55:54 CLUB HAVE BEEN URGING THE CITY

1:55:55 TO DETER THE ILLEGAL PARKING BY

1:55:57 RESTARTING PLANNING ON

1:55:58 PROTECTED BIKE LANES IN OUR

1:55:59 CAMPUS FROM BLUE BRIDGE AT

1:56:01 KENMORE SQUARE THAT WOULD MAKE

1:56:03 IT IMPOSSIBLE TO FOR CARS TO

1:56:04 PARK ILLEGALLY.

1:56:06 WELL IT'S NOT LIKE POLICE ARE

1:56:07 DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT NOW

1:56:08 WHEN IT'S NEEDED, BUT THEY

1:56:09 SHOULDN'T BE ON WATCH ALL THE

1:56:11 TIME WHEN BETTER SOLUTIONS

1:56:12 ALREADY EXIST OUT THERE.

1:56:13 WE'VE HEARD FROM OVER 190

1:56:15 STUDENTS, FACULTY AND

1:56:16 NEIGHBORING RESIDENTS AT THIS

1:56:17 POINT THAT HAVING PHYSICAL

1:56:18 INFRASTRUCTURE IS MUCH

1:56:20 PREFERRED OVER CONSTANT

1:56:21 SURVEILLANCE AND I'M SURE

1:56:22 PEOPLE IN OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS

1:56:23 PLAGUED BY ILLEGAL PARKING FEEL

1:56:24 THE SAME WAY.

1:56:25 WHEN WE HAVE THESE THINGS LIKE

1:56:28 WHEN WE HAVE CURB EXTENSIONS,

1:56:29 WHEN WE HAVE BOLLARDS WE SHOULD

1:56:32 BE PUTTING THOSE IN TO MAKE OUR

1:56:33 STREETS SAFER AND WE SHOULDN'T

1:56:35 HAVE TO RELY ON POLICE TO BE

1:56:36 DOING EVERYTHING THAT ARE

1:56:38 PROTECTED.

1:56:38 BIKE LANE CAN.

1:56:39 THANK YOU.

1:56:40 THANK YOU SO MUCH HEATHER.

1:56:45 IS HEATHER STILL HERE?

1:56:46 DOESN'T SEEM OKAY.

1:56:48 KATHY TRUONG.

1:56:52 ELI SILBERT AND THEN ALEX.

1:56:54 ALEX.

1:56:56 UH HELLO EVERYONE.

1:56:57 THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT HERE

1:56:58 TODAY TO DO THIS HEARING.

1:56:59 I APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR, UM,

1:57:01 PRESENCE AND INPUT AND I'VE

1:57:03 BEEN BIKING ALL OF MY LIFE BUT

1:57:04 ONLY ABOUT A YEAR OR SO IN THE

1:57:06 CITY AND I WOULD SAY FOR THIS

1:57:08 DURATION I CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO

1:57:10 COUNT HOW MANY INSTANCES CARS

1:57:12 HAVE ALMOST HIT SOMEONE KILLED

1:57:14 SOMEONE, BLOCKED OFF BIKE LANES

1:57:16 AND CROSSWALKS FOR PEDESTRIANS

1:57:18 AND NOT TO MENTION HOW ANNOYED

1:57:19 THEY GET OR IT FEELS LIKE AN

1:57:21 ATTACK ON THEIR PRIDE WHEN A

1:57:22 BIKE PASSES, DUNMORE RIGHTFULLY

1:57:23 TAKES UP A LANE.

1:57:24 THE AGGRESSIVENESS AND PATIENCE

1:57:26 AND HUBRIS MAKES FOR A

1:57:27 DANGEROUS COMBINATION AND I

1:57:29 AGREE WITH COUNCILOR FITZGERALD

1:57:30 THAT IT'S THAT THE COMMON

1:57:32 COURTESY BETWEEN US AND DRIVERS

1:57:33 ARE NOT BEING RECIPROCATED.

1:57:36 SORRY CARS CAUSED SO MANY

1:57:38 ACCIDENTS ON A DAILY BASIS YET

1:57:39 IT'S NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY

1:57:40 BECAUSE WE'VE BECOME SO

1:57:41 ACCUSTOMED TO IT AND THEY STATE

1:57:43 THAT WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BIKE

1:57:44 LANES BECAUSE NO ONE USE THEM

1:57:45 AND THAT IT TAKES UP SPACE ON

1:57:47 THE ROAD.

1:57:47 THE ANGER TAKES HOLD OF ANY

1:57:49 RATIONAL THOUGHT WHILE THEY

1:57:50 HONK AT US OR TRY TO RUN US OFF

1:57:51 THE MAIN ROAD.

1:57:53 DRIVERS ARE UPSET WHEN WE HAVE

1:57:54 A DESIGNATED LANE BUT ALSO

1:57:55 PARKING OUR SPOTS SO THAT WE

1:57:56 ARE FORCED TO GO ONTO THE

1:57:58 STREET AND WE JUST CAN'T WIN.

1:58:00 WE NEED PROTECTIVE MEASURES

1:58:01 LIKE BARRIERS NOT PAINT LINES

1:58:03 THAT ANYONE CAN IGNORE.

1:58:04 PAINT IS NOT PROTECTION.

1:58:06 WE SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING IN

1:58:07 BETWEEN AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT

1:58:09 OF PARKED CARS WHERE ANYONE CAN

1:58:10 POP OUT WITHOUT LOOKING OR AND

1:58:12 THE CONTINUOUS TRAFFIC OF CARS

1:58:14 .

1:58:14 LIKE COUNCILOR PEPEN SAID AND I

1:58:16 APOLOGIZE IF I MISPRONOUNCE

1:58:17 YOUR NAME.

1:58:20 UM SO AT THIS POINT I ASK HOW

1:58:22 MANY MORE ACCIDENTS AND DOES

1:58:23 WHAT THERE HAVE TO BE BEFORE

1:58:25 THE THIS BECOMES IMPLEMENTED

1:58:26 AND PROTECTIVE MEASURES ARE

1:58:28 IMPLANTED.

1:58:29 AT THIS POINT DRIVERS SIMPLY

1:58:30 DON'T CARE.

1:58:31 THE COUNCIL FLYNN SAID PARKING

1:58:32 TICKET TICKET ENFORCERS ARE

1:58:34 RESPECTED.

1:58:34 THEY'RE ABUSED AND CARS THINK

1:58:36 THAT THEY'RE ABOVE THE LAW.

1:58:38 UH, THEY DON'T THINK THAT.

1:58:40 THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT GOING

1:58:41 PAST THE SPEED LIMIT OR

1:58:43 INTERCEPTING PEOPLE ON THE

1:58:44 CROSSWALKS OR IN BIKE LANES AND

1:58:46 BECAUSE THERE ARE NO

1:58:47 CONSEQUENCES.

1:58:47 THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY CAN GET

1:58:49 AWAY WITH IT.

1:58:50 SO I BELIEVE THAT WE NEED NEW

1:58:51 LAWS EITHER NEW LAWS

1:58:53 IMPLEMENTED OR FOR OFFICERS TO

1:58:56 ACCOMPANY THESE PARKING

1:58:57 ENFORCERS ON THEIR JOBS TO

1:58:58 DECREASE THIS LIKELIHOOD.

1:58:59 THANK YOU.

1:59:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:59:01 UM, KATHY.

1:59:03 ELI, UH.

1:59:05 PAY FIRST.

1:59:06 OH, YEAH.

1:59:06 YOU CAN PUT THEM RIGHT THERE

1:59:08 AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THEY GET

1:59:09 DISTRIBUTED.

1:59:09 OKAY.

1:59:12 UM.

1:59:13 HI, I'M ELI SILVER.

1:59:14 UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE

1:59:16 CITY COUNCILORS SPONSORS FOR

1:59:17 PUTTING SO MUCH ATTENTION ON

1:59:19 THIS LOCAL ISSUE THAT HAS A

1:59:20 TANGIBLE IMPACT ON ALL OF US.

1:59:22 UM, I'M A CYCLIST.

1:59:23 UH, BUT I'M ALSO A CO-CREATOR

1:59:26 OF TOE ZONE ALERTS, A COMMUNITY

1:59:28 TEXT ALERT SYSTEM THAT HELPS

1:59:30 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND PARKING RULES

1:59:31 AND AVOID MAKING MISTAKES IN

1:59:32 THE FIRST PLACE.

1:59:34 WE OPERATE IN BOSTON,

1:59:35 CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE AND

1:59:36 CHELSEA AND, UM AND AMONG OUR

1:59:38 6000 SUBSCRIBERS WE'VE SEEN AN

1:59:40 87% REDUCTION IN ILLEGAL

1:59:41 PARKING BEFORE DIVING IN.

1:59:43 AND I ALSO WANT TO AFFIRM THAT

1:59:45 ILLEGAL PARKING, BLOCKED

1:59:47 CROSSWALKS AND BIKE LANES ARE

1:59:48 SERIOUS SAFETY RISK AND

1:59:50 MINDLESS DRIVERS AND PARKERS

1:59:51 HAVE COMPOUNDED TO SERIOUSLY

1:59:52 HARM PEOPLE.

1:59:54 UM BUT THROUGH TWITTER ALERTS

1:59:55 I'VE ALSO COME TO EMPATHIZE

1:59:56 WITH ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE.

1:59:58 UM WE'VE HEARD MANY STORIES

2:00:00 OF WHY PEOPLE PARK ILLEGALLY.

2:00:02 RECENTLY A SUBSCRIBER TO THE

2:00:03 SERVICE IN EAST DESCRIBED

2:00:05 CIRCLING FOR HALF AN HOUR.

2:00:06 UH, THE NIGHT BEFORE STREET

2:00:07 CLEANING, UNABLE TO FIND A

2:00:09 CLEAR SPOT AND RESORTING TO

2:00:10 PARKING TOO CLOSE TO AN

2:00:11 INTERSECTION, THEY WERE

2:00:12 DETECTED BY THE CITY AND TOWED

2:00:13 BY TEDESCO.

2:00:15 UM MANY PARKING MISTAKES ARE

2:00:17 DUE TO NOT KNOWING THE RULES UM

2:00:19 OR WHERE LEGAL PARKING IS.

2:00:20 THESE MISTAKES ARE DUE TO

2:00:22 MISSING INFORMATION AND WOULD

2:00:23 BE BEST ADDRESSED WITH BETTER

2:00:24 INFORMATION RATHER THAN PARKING

2:00:25 TICKETS FOR TEXTING ALERTS.

2:00:27 WE'VE DEVELOPED SEVERAL

2:00:28 PROACTIVE ALERT SYSTEMS.

2:00:30 I ASK YOU TO CONSIDER

2:00:31 EVALUATING SOME OF THESE

2:00:31 HELPFUL ALERTS THAT HAVE PROVEN

2:00:33 TO REDUCE ILLEGAL PARKING DUE

2:00:34 TO TIME OF FOCUS ON OUR NEAR

2:00:36 REAL TIME TICKET ALERTS, WHICH

2:00:38 ALERT PEOPLE WHEN THEY'VE BEEN

2:00:39 TICKETED SO THEY CAN FIX THE

2:00:40 MISTAKE BEFORE CAUSING MORE

2:00:41 HARM AND GETTING MORE

2:00:42 PENALTIES.

2:00:43 THIS WOULD PAIR WELL WITH ANY

2:00:44 TICKETING SYSTEMS AUTOMATED OR

2:00:46 MANUAL.

2:00:47 BEYOND THESE SIMPLE TEXT BASED

2:00:48 SYSTEMS, THERE'S A LOT MORE

2:00:50 THAT CAN BE DONE TO COMMUNICATE

2:00:51 USEFUL PARKING INFORMATION TO

2:00:52 DRIVERS.

2:00:53 FOR EXAMPLE, THE CITY SHOULD

2:00:55 BUILD ON THE SMART GRANT

2:00:56 PROJECT LED BY AMELIA CAPONE

2:00:58 WHO WAS HERE EARLIER AND SAM

2:00:59 BRENNER.

2:01:00 UM, WHEN I LEARNED OF THIS CURB

2:01:02 DATA PROJECT, UM, THE TROJAN

2:01:04 ALERTS CO-CREATOR MIKA NORDIC

2:01:06 AND I BUILT AN APP ON IT THAT

2:01:08 AUTOMATICALLY DETECTS WHERE

2:01:09 USER HAS PARKED AND INFORMS

2:01:11 THEM OF THE RELEVANT RULE IN

2:01:12 THEIR CHOSEN LANGUAGE BASED ON

2:01:14 THAT DATA.

2:01:15 UM, WE FOUND THAT THE DATA IS

2:01:16 AN ACCURATE ENOUGH TO MAKE

2:01:17 PUBLIC DUE TO MISSING SIGNS AND

2:01:18 STREET GEOMETRIES, BUT

2:01:19 CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT OF THIS

2:01:20 PROJECT AND OTHER LIGHTWEIGHT

2:01:21 ALERTS ULTIMATELY HELP IMPROVE

2:01:23 COMPLIANCE.

2:01:23 THANKS.

2:01:24 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:01:25 UM NEXT WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

2:01:26 ALEX.

2:01:27 ALEX A MAN WHO NEEDS NO

2:01:30 INTRODUCTION.

2:01:33 MY NAME IS ALEX.

2:01:34 I LIVE IN DORCHESTER.

2:01:35 FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS I'VE

2:01:36 DOCUMENTED OUT-OF-CONTROL

2:01:37 DRIVING ACROSS BOSTON.

2:01:39 UM, I FILMED A FRACTION OF WHAT

2:01:41 I SEE AND POST ON SOCIAL.

2:01:43 MEDIA.

2:01:43 A SMALLER PERCENTAGE OF WHAT I

2:01:44 FILMED AND STILL I'VE TAGS CITY

2:01:45 LEADERS AND INSTITUTIONS AND

2:01:47 THOUSANDS OF VIOLATIONS ALL

2:01:48 ACROSS BOSTON.

2:01:49 UM, SHOWCASING THE INCOMPETENCE

2:01:51 AND DISREGARD SHOWN IN THE

2:01:52 CITY'S INSTITUTIONAL RESPONSE.

2:01:53 A MONTH AGO I MET WITH BTD

2:01:55 LEADERSHIP AND PRESENTED A

2:01:56 SUMMARY OF THESE CLIPS.

2:01:58 UM AS WELL AS DOZENS OF IDEAS

2:02:00 TO IMPROVE OUR ROADS.

2:02:01 THE CHAOS ON THE ROADS.

2:02:02 STARTS WITH THE CITY.

2:02:03 CITY WORKERS SET BAD.

2:02:04 EXAMPLES HAVE.

2:02:05 SHOWN CLIPS OF CITY VEHICLES

2:02:07 PARKED IN BIKE.

2:02:08 LANES NEXT TO OPEN PARKING.

2:02:09 FORCING A WHEELCHAIR USER INTO

2:02:11 .

2:02:11 VEHICLE TRAFFIC.

2:02:12 ON MASSIVE.

2:02:13 UM ACTUALLY ON CITY LEADERSHIPS

2:02:14 VEHICLES VEHICLE SIMULTANEOUSLY

2:02:16 PARKED.

2:02:17 ON THE SIDEWALK AND IN THE BIKE

2:02:18 LANE.

2:02:18 AND THE MAYOR'S OFFICE HAS BEEN

2:02:19 CAPTURED USING THE CAMBRIDGE

2:02:20 STREET BIKE LANE AS PARKING.

2:02:22 THROUGHOUT MY VARIOUS

2:02:23 CONVERSATIONS WITH THE PEOPLE

2:02:24 PAID TO SOLVE THESE ISSUES.

2:02:25 SOME COMMON REFRAINS HAVE BEEN

2:02:27 WE DON'T HAVE THE AUTHORITY, WE

2:02:28 DON'T HAVE THE.

2:02:29 BUDGET AND WE CAN'T DO THAT.

2:02:30 I APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS THAT

2:02:31 ARE BEING TAKEN TO CURB

2:02:33 OUT-OF-CONTROL DRIVING.

2:02:34 BUT WHEN I WATCH DOZENS

2:02:35 OF VEHICLES SPEED THROUGH

2:02:36 CROSSWALKS WITH AN ACTIVE

2:02:37 PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL WHEN I HAVE

2:02:39 TO DODGE CITY EMPLOYEES RUNNING

2:02:40 RED LIGHTS IN UNIFORM AND WHEN

2:02:41 I FILM THERE'S THOUSANDS

2:02:43 OF SUCH INCIDENTS AND GET NO

2:02:44 RECOURSE.

2:02:45 I UNDERSTAND THAT LEGALITY,

2:02:46 AUTHORITY AND PROCEDURE ARE

2:02:47 EXCUSES THROWN OUT TO DEFEND

2:02:49 THOSE WHO ACT ILLEGALLY,

2:02:50 ENDANGER OTHERS AND MAKE

2:02:51 STREETS DYSFUNCTIONAL.

2:02:53 HERE ARE SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT

2:02:54 I'VE BEEN REPEATEDLY RAISING TO

2:02:55 THE CITY.

2:02:56 ONE CREATE A TRAFFIC PATROL

2:02:57 UNIT ON BIKES TO REGULARLY

2:02:59 PATROL THE STREETS AND

2:03:00 COORDINATE TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT

2:03:01 PLACES.

2:03:02 I DON'T WANT TO HEAR THAT BPD

2:03:03 DOESN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY WHEN

2:03:05 THE CITY HAS THE RESOURCES.

2:03:07 TO SEND DOZENS.

2:03:08 OF POLICE TO MENACE ME FOR

2:03:09 CLEANING UP THE CITY.

2:03:11 TWO CREATE A31 BOUNTY PROGRAM.

2:03:13 I'VE SHOWN IN MY VIDEOS THAT

2:03:14 THE CITY COULD GENERATE UP TO

2:03:16 $2,000 IN FINES IN A 15 MINUTES

2:03:18 OFF A SINGLE STREET.

2:03:20 IF THE CITY IS SO SHORT

2:03:21 STAFFED.

2:03:21 TAP THE RESIDENTS.

2:03:23 PUSH THE STATE TO ACT AND IF

2:03:24 THEY STAND IN THE WAY AT ANY

2:03:25 WAY TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT,

2:03:26 PROCEDURE AND LEGALITY CANNOT

2:03:28 TAKE PRIORITY OVER SAFETY AND

2:03:29 COMMON SENSE.

2:03:30 FINALLY, THE WAY THAT

2:03:31 LEADERSHIP APPROACHES TRAFFIC

2:03:33 SAFETY AND ROAD USAGE UH LACKS

2:03:36 LEADERSHIP.

2:03:36 WE NEED A MASSIVE REDESIGN

2:03:37 OF OUR STREETS DRASTICALLY

2:03:39 REDUCING HOW MUCH SPACE IS

2:03:40 GIVEN TO CARS AND PARKING.

2:03:41 UH, CREATING A BUS AND BIKE

2:03:42 NETWORK AND REVAMPING WASTE AND

2:03:44 SANITATION SERVICES.

2:03:46 BOSTON STREETS MUST BECOME

2:03:47 DESTINATIONS EVOLVE IN AND

2:03:48 OF THEMSELVES NOT SPEED WAYS

2:03:50 FOR CARS.

2:03:50 I WILL BE SHARING THE

2:03:51 PRESENTATION THAT I SHARED WITH

2:03:52 BTD WITH THE REST OF THE CITY

2:03:54 COUNCIL.

2:03:54 THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

2:03:54 THANK YOU ALEX.

2:03:56 UM AND UH WE HAVE CHRISTINA

2:03:58 NEXT, THEN GREG MAYNARD, THEN

2:04:00 MAHA ASLAM.

2:04:02 SO WE'RE GOING TO UM I JUST

2:04:05 WANTED.

2:04:06 TO IS CHRISTINA HERE?

2:04:07 OKAY.

2:04:08 GREG MAYNARD UM, I JUST WANT TO

2:04:11 SAY REGARDING, UM, WE KNOW THAT

2:04:14 RESIDENTS, UM, OFTENTIMES ARE

2:04:15 FRUSTRATED WITH SEEING PUBLIC

2:04:16 SAFETY VEHICLES PARKED IN BIKE

2:04:18 LANES.

2:04:19 ONE THING THAT WE HAVE SEEN IS

2:04:20 THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE THE

2:04:22 ABILITY TO PARK IN A BIKE LANE

2:04:24 FOR AN HOUR.

2:04:25 UM AND SO THAT WILL BE A FOLLOW

2:04:26 UP QUESTION THAT I WILL PUT ON

2:04:28 THE RECORD.

2:04:28 UM AND SO SO THANK YOU.

2:04:30 YES.

2:04:31 THAT TOO.

2:04:31 THANK YOU ALEX.

2:04:33 UM GREG GO AHEAD.

2:04:34 MY NAME IS SEE THE NEW.

2:04:36 TITLE PIONEER INSTITUTE.

2:04:37 YES.

2:04:38 UH, MY NAME IS GREGORY

2:04:39 MAYNARD.

2:04:39 I'M A SENIOR FELLOW AT THE

2:04:40 PIONEER INSTITUTE WHERE I LEAD

2:04:42 THE CITY INITIATIVE.

2:04:43 THIS HEARING WAS A REAL MISSED

2:04:45 OPPORTUNITY.

2:04:46 UNFORTUNATELY, THE PLANNING

2:04:47 COMMITTEE HAS A RECORD

2:04:48 OF MISSING OPPORTUNITIES WHEN

2:04:49 IT COMES TO STREETS POLICY.

2:04:51 THIS COMMITTEE DID NOT HOLD A

2:04:53 HEARING IN 2025 ON THE STREETS

2:04:54 PROJECT REVIEW THAT MAYOR WU

2:04:56 ORDERED IN FEBRUARY 2025 AND

2:04:58 WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN APRIL

2:05:00 2025.

2:05:00 THAT WAS UNUSUAL BECAUSE BIKE

2:05:02 LANES WERE ONE OF THE HIGHEST

2:05:03 PROFILE ISSUES OF THE 2025 CITY

2:05:06 ELECTIONS.

2:05:07 A HEARING FINALLY HAPPENED

2:05:10 APRIL 22ND 2026, MORE THAN A

2:05:11 YEAR AFTER THE REVIEW WAS

2:05:12 PUBLISHED.

2:05:12 EVEN THEN THE PUBLIC WAS

2:05:14 REVIEWED WAS DENIED A COMPLETE

2:05:16 CONVERSATION.

2:05:17 THE AUTHOR OF THE REPORT, MIKE

2:05:19 HILL, THE SUPERINTENDENT OF

2:05:20 BASIC CITY SERVICES WAS NOT

2:05:22 ABLE TO MAKE THAT HEARING.

2:05:24 THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE

2:05:25 LACK OF A MEANINGFUL HEARING ON

2:05:27 THE REVIEW IS NOT AN ISOLATED

2:05:29 EVENT.

2:05:29 TODAY'S HEARING IS ANOTHER GOOD

2:05:30 EXAMPLE OF A MISSED

2:05:32 OPPORTUNITY.

2:05:32 WHAT DO I MEAN?

2:05:33 OUT OF ALL THE STREET POLICY

2:05:35 DOCKETS BEFORE THE PLANNING

2:05:36 COMMITTEE, THE ONE WE HEARD

2:05:38 TODAY IS THE MOST NARROW.

2:05:39 HERE ARE THE THREE OTHER STREET

2:05:42 POLICY DOCKETS BEFORE THE

2:05:43 PLANNING COMMITTEE THAT WERE

2:05:44 NOT INCLUDED ON TODAY'S HEARING

2:05:46 AGENDA.

2:05:46 THESE THREE DOCKETS ARE ALSO

2:05:48 NOT SCHEDULED FOR A HEARING.

2:05:50 AS OF A FEW MINUTES AGO ON THE

2:05:51 CITY'S PUBLIC NOTICE WEBSITE,

2:05:53 DOCKET NUMBER 1542A HEARING

2:05:56 FILED BY COUNCILOR WEBER ON

2:05:58 AUGUST 5TH TO QUOTE REVIEW

2:05:59 SAFETY OF THE OPERATION

2:06:01 OF HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLES

2:06:02 AND POTENTIAL MEASURES TO

2:06:04 PROTECT PEDESTRIANS AND

2:06:05 CYCLISTS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON

2:06:06 .

2:06:07 UNQUOTE.

2:06:07 DOCKET NUMBER 1418.

2:06:10 A HEARING ORDER FILED BY

2:06:11 COUNCILOR WEBER ON JULY 22ND TO

2:06:14 REVIEW THE STATUS OF BOSTON

2:06:16 CITYWIDE BIKE NETWORK PLAN,

2:06:18 UNQUOTE.

2:06:18 DOCKET NUMBER 0333.

2:06:21 A HEARING ORDER FILED BY

2:06:23 COUNCILOR FLYNN ON FEBRUARY

2:06:24 11TH TO DISCUSS PEDESTRIAN

2:06:26 SAFETY, TRAFFIC CALMING AND

2:06:28 VISION ZERO IN THE CITY

2:06:30 OF BOSTON.

2:06:30 UNQUOTE.

2:06:31 CHAIR DURKAN SHOULD EXPLAIN WHY

2:06:32 THOSE DOCKETS WEREN'T HEARD

2:06:33 TODAY.

2:06:34 WHY THE REVIEW WASN'T HEARD IN

2:06:36 2025 AND WHEN SHE'S PLANNING TO

2:06:38 HOLD A REAL HEARING ON CITY

2:06:39 HALL STREET POLICY MOVES AND

2:06:41 DECISION MAKING OVER THE LAST

2:06:43 THREE MONTHS.

2:06:44 THANK YOU.

2:06:44 I WOULD LIKE TO RESPOND TO

2:06:46 THAT.

2:06:46 UM, SO OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE A VERY

2:06:50 UM INTERESTING PROCESS WHERE WE

2:06:52 FILE MORE DOCKETS THAN WE HAVE

2:06:54 TIME FOR IN ANY GIVEN YEAR.

2:06:56 UM, I PRIORITIZE THIS DOCKET

2:06:57 BECAUSE IT MATTERS DEEPLY TO MY

2:06:59 CONSTITUENTS.

2:07:00 UM, AND WE WILL BE HAVING A

2:07:02 HEARING ON AT LEAST 1 OR 2

2:07:04 OF THOSE DOCKETS.

2:07:05 UM, SOME OF THEM HAVE NOT BEEN

2:07:07 REQUESTED BY THE LEAD SPONSOR

2:07:08 TO BE HEARD.

2:07:09 IT'S VERY EASY TO COME IN AND

2:07:11 THROW SHOTS WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING

2:07:13 IN FROM BROCKTON.

2:07:14 UM, BUT I KNOW WHAT OUR

2:07:16 CONSTITUENTS ARE LOOKING TO

2:07:17 HEAR.

2:07:17 I HEAR FROM ADVOCATES EVERY DAY

2:07:19 WHAT DOCKETS THEY WANT TO BE

2:07:20 HEARD.

2:07:21 AND I HEAR FROM MY UM,

2:07:23 COLLEAGUES WHICH DOCKETS THEY

2:07:24 WANT TO BE HEARD AND I WORK

2:07:26 WITH THE ADMINISTRATION UM, AS

2:07:28 WELL AS MY OFFICE AND THEIR

2:07:30 OFFICE TO FIND A DATE THAT

2:07:31 WORKS.

2:07:32 UM, I KNOW THAT I HAVE ALSO

2:07:35 RECEIVED, UH, FEEDBACK THAT I

2:07:36 DIDN'T HOST A HEARING ON

2:07:38 PARKING SOON ENOUGH.

2:07:39 THAT WAS MY FILING.

2:07:41 I'M OFTEN TALKING TO MY

2:07:42 COLLEAGUES ABOUT WHEN THEY'D

2:07:44 LIKE A CERTAIN ISSUE TO BE

2:07:45 HEARD.

2:07:45 IT'S VERY, UH, NUANCED AND

2:07:48 COMPLICATED AND OBVIOUSLY, UM,

2:07:51 I THINK THAT THE CITY

2:07:52 COUNCIL IS A LOT MORE

2:07:53 TRANSPARENT THAN OTHER BODIES

2:07:54 THAT EXIST ABOUT LIKE WHY WE'RE

2:07:56 FILING SOMETHING.

2:07:56 AND IF I HAD BEEN ASKED BY THE

2:07:58 MEDIA I WOULD HAVE GIVEN THAT

2:07:59 RESPONSE.

2:08:00 SO I'M HAPPY TO GIVE IT HERE

2:08:01 NOW.

2:08:02 UM YEAH.

2:08:03 YEAH.

2:08:03 GO AHEAD, COUNCILOR WEBER.

2:08:04 JUST UH.

2:08:06 YOU MENTIONED LEAD SPONSORS.

2:08:07 WE DO HAVE A HOLD FOR THE UH

2:08:09 THE BIKE NETWORK UH, HEARING

2:08:12 AND THE UH THE TRUCK ROUTE, YOU

2:08:14 KNOW, LARGE TRUCK OPERATION FOR

2:08:17 NOVEMBER 5TH.

2:08:18 I MEAN, AGAIN, IT'S IT IS HARD

2:08:20 TO ARRANGE THESE HEARINGS AND

2:08:22 COORDINATE A LOT OF DIFFERENT

2:08:23 SCHEDULES, BUT, UH, WE'RE

2:08:24 HOPING TO HAVE THAT HEARING.

2:08:26 YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE BEEN

2:08:27 WORKING WITH YOUR OFFICE.

2:08:28 YES.

2:08:28 UH, AND SO IN TERMS OF LIKE

2:08:30 LEAD SPONSORS, I JUST THE TWO

2:08:32 DOCKETS MENTIONED WE'RE WE HAVE

2:08:35 A HOLD AT FOR NOVEMBER 5TH AND

2:08:37 WE'RE WORKING WITH THE

2:08:37 ADMINISTRATION.

2:08:38 YEAH AND I DEFINITELY

2:08:39 EVERYONE'S YEAH I DEFINITELY

2:08:40 DIDN'T MEAN TO SAY THAT LIKE

2:08:41 ALL OF THESE LEAD SPONSORS HAVE

2:08:42 NOT REACHED OUT TO ME BUT THAT

2:08:44 IS THE POINT OF BEING A CHAIR

2:08:46 OF A COMMITTEE AS YOU ARE

2:08:47 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT

2:08:48 THEY'RE INTERESTED IN.

2:08:49 I THINK THE FACT THAT WE HAVE

2:08:50 SO MUCH PUBLIC.

2:08:51 TESTIMONY TODAY THIS IS

2:08:52 OF INTEREST TO THE PUBLIC.

2:08:53 SO I THINK IT'S A LITTLE BIT

2:08:55 DISPARAGING TO THE PEOPLE WHO

2:08:56 HAVE SHOWN UP SPENT TIME

2:08:58 THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE ON LINE

2:08:59 WAITING TO TESTIFY THAT THIS

2:09:01 WAS NOT IMPORTANT TO THEM.

2:09:02 THEY'RE BOSTON RESIDENTS WHO

2:09:03 CARE DEEPLY.

2:09:03 ABOUT THIS ISSUE.

2:09:04 SO UM THAT BEING SAID, I WILL

2:09:06 MOVE ON TO MARJA.

2:09:08 UM, WHO IS UH I LIVE ON THE

2:09:10 STREETS ALLIANCE.

2:09:13 UH, THANK YOU, COUNCILOR FOR UM

2:09:16 HAVING THIS HEARING.

2:09:18 A LOT HAS BEEN SAID TODAY SO

2:09:19 I'M NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW

2:09:20 BAD BOSTON DRIVERS ARE.

2:09:21 WE ALL KNOW THAT.

2:09:22 UM, I THINK UM WHILE LOUISVILLE

2:09:25 STREETS ALLIANCE STRONGLY

2:09:27 SUPPORTS SELF ENFORCING

2:09:29 INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH MEANS LIKE

2:09:30 SEPARATED BIKE LANES, GREAT

2:09:32 CROSSWALKS, SPEED HUMPS WE ALSO

2:09:35 KNOW THAT ALL OF THESE THINGS

2:09:37 TAKE TIME AND SO WE WANT

2:09:39 ENFORCEMENT TO BE SOMETHING

2:09:41 THAT WE CAN PAIR WITH REALLY

2:09:42 GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:09:43 UM AND SOMETHING THAT WAS

2:09:45 MENTIONED EARLIER I THINK CHRIS

2:09:46 OSCAR MENTIONED A

2:09:47 COUNCIL MEMBER ALSO MENTIONED

2:09:49 IT IS LIKE AUTOMATED

2:09:51 ENFORCEMENT AND THE EXPANSION

2:09:52 OF THE USE OF AUTOMATED

2:09:54 ENFORCEMENT.

2:09:54 I JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME

2:09:56 STATS AROUND THE STUFF THAT

2:09:58 SOMERVILLE DID WITH SAFETY

2:09:59 STICK.

2:10:00 UM, THEY RECORDED 42 PARKING

2:10:03 VIOLATIONS OVER 40 DAYS ARE

2:10:05 JUST THREE LOCATIONS.

2:10:08 UM THE CITY REPORTED THE

2:10:10 VIOLATIONS AT MONITORED

2:10:11 LOCATIONS WENT FROM TEN PER DAY

2:10:13 TO ONE OR LESS.

2:10:15 SO THIS TECHNOLOGY DOES PROVE

2:10:17 THAT YOU KNOW YOU CAN CHANGE

2:10:18 BEHAVIOR BUT IT HAS TO BE

2:10:20 CONSISTENT AND IT HAS TO BE 24

2:10:21 SEVEN AND WHICH HUMANS CAN DO

2:10:23 WHICH IS WHY NO MATTER HOW MANY

2:10:25 LIKE PERSONNEL WE HAVE,

2:10:26 THERE'LL ALWAYS BE A TIME WHEN

2:10:28 YOU KNOW YOU WON'T HAVE THE EYE

2:10:30 ON THAT BIKE LANE.

2:10:32 SO I THINK WE STRONGLY

2:10:33 ENCOURAGE THAT THE CITY NOT

2:10:35 ONLY LIKE EXPLORES WHAT LEGALLY

2:10:37 THEY CAN DO WHICH THEY WERE

2:10:38 TALKING ABOUT WHICH IS THE MTA

2:10:40 BUSSES WHICH IS SCHOOL BUSSES

2:10:42 BUT ALSO LOOK FOR A PATHWAY TO

2:10:44 CHANGE LEGISLATION THAT CAN

2:10:46 EXPAND THIS TOOL AND WE CAN DO

2:10:48 SOMETHING SIMILAR TO LIKE THE

2:10:49 SAFETY SAKE OR SOME OTHER

2:10:51 TECHNOLOGY.

2:10:52 UM AND OF COURSE THIS SHOULD BE

2:10:54 PAIRED WITH ADVOCATE STAFFING

2:10:57 UM TRANSPARENT OVERSIGHT AND

2:10:59 HUMAN REVIEW TO ENSURE

2:11:01 ACCOUNTABILITY AND FAIRNESS AND

2:11:02 THE CITY SHOULD ALSO EXPLORES

2:11:05 UM CURBSIDE MANAGEMENT.

2:11:06 THANK YOU.

2:11:07 THANK YOU SO MUCH MAHA.

2:11:08 THANKS FOR ALL YOUR LEADERSHIP

2:11:09 AS WELL.

2:11:10 UM ZACHARY YARROW IS NEXT AND

2:11:13 THEN MATTHIAS IRIS MILLARD AND

2:11:19 THEN UM ARIANA VELASQUEZ.

2:11:24 GREAT.

2:11:25 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:11:28 UH.

2:11:28 THANK YOU.

2:11:29 SO.

2:11:29 UH, FROM RUNNING BOSTON BIKE

2:11:31 BLOCKERS I HAVE AROUND 5000

2:11:33 PHOTOS FROM JUST THE TOP THREE

2:11:35 CONTRIBUTORS FOR THE PAST THREE

2:11:37 YEARS.

2:11:37 A CRITICAL MASS OF DRIVERS TO

2:11:39 UNPROTECTED BIKE LANES AND BUS

2:11:40 LANES AS FREE PARKING AND

2:11:41 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS BEHAVIOR

2:11:43 IS A MASSIVE PART OF SETTING

2:11:44 THAT TONE.

2:11:45 IT COMES TO WHEN THE BOSTON

2:11:46 POLICE OFFICER PARKED THEIR

2:11:47 PATROL SUV IN THE BIKE LANE ON

2:11:49 BOYLSTON TO PICK UP THEIR

2:11:50 DINNER FROM CARVER, WHICH JUST

2:11:51 SAID YOU NEVER REPLIED TO

2:11:52 ME ABOUT WHEN A BOSTON POLICE

2:11:54 OFFICER SHOUTED SNIDE COMMENTS

2:11:56 TO ME WHILE I WAS NAVIGATING

2:11:57 AROUND ILLEGAL PARKERS ON MASS

2:11:59 HAVE UH AND DID NOTHING ABOUT

2:12:01 THEM WHEN 311 MARKED COLUMBUS

2:12:04 AVE IN THE SOUTH END AS ALL

2:12:05 CLEAR WHEN THERE WERE VISIBLY

2:12:06 STILL DRIVERS PARKED IN THE

2:12:08 BIKE LANE.

2:12:08 AND IT COMES TO WHEN OUR MAYOR

2:12:10 AND MEMBERS OF HER

2:12:11 ADMINISTRATION RESPOND TO

2:12:12 PHYSICAL SEPARATION REMOVAL BY

2:12:14 CRITICIZING FLEX POSE EVEN

2:12:14 THOUGH FLEX POSTS IN THE

2:12:16 MEANTIME ARE A LOT BETTER THAN

2:12:18 NO PROTECTION WHICH IS WHAT

2:12:19 WE'VE HAD FOR A YEAR AND A HALF

2:12:21 DRIVER SHOW THEY KNOW BIKE

2:12:22 LANES ARE FREE PARKING WHEN

2:12:23 THEY LAUGH AND CRACK JOKES WHEN

2:12:24 I SUBMIT THEM TO 311 WHEN THEY

2:12:26 CHOOSE TO PARK IN A BIKE LANE

2:12:27 INSTEAD OF AN ADJACENT PRIVATE

2:12:28 PARKING SPACE OR IN A BIKE LANE

2:12:30 INSTEAD OF IN THE ADJACENT

2:12:31 ACCESSIBLE PARKING SPACE OR IN

2:12:32 A BIKE LANE INSTEAD OF AN

2:12:33 ADJACENT FIRE LANE.

2:12:34 THOSE ARE EQUALLY ILLEGAL BUT

2:12:35 THEY ALWAYS CHOOSE THE BIKE

2:12:36 LANE.

2:12:37 DRIVERS HAVE FLAGGED DOWN

2:12:39 PASSING POLICE AND ASK THEM TO

2:12:41 MAKE ME DELETE PHOTOS I

2:12:42 SUBMITTED TO 311.

2:12:45 SO WHAT AM I ASKING FOR?

2:12:46 HOLD BPD ACCOUNTABLE TREAT

2:12:49 POLICE PARKING AND BIKE LANES

2:12:50 FOR NON-EMERGENCY REASONS THE

2:12:52 SAME WAY IT WOULD BE TREATED IF

2:12:53 I ABUSED MY AUTHORITY AT MY

2:12:55 JOB.

2:12:55 HAVE 311 MAIL INFORMATION TO

2:12:58 OWNERS OF OFFENDING VEHICLES

2:13:00 REMINDING THEM WHAT THE LAW IS.

2:13:01 I KNOW YOU CAN'T TICKET THEM

2:13:02 FOR THE PHOTOS BUT YOU CAN

2:13:04 STILL IN SOME WAY REACH OUT TO

2:13:06 THEM.

2:13:07 BAN CONSTRUCTION OF UNPROTECTED

2:13:09 BIKE LANES IF YOU HAVE A GUTTER

2:13:10 YOU WANT TO SCRAPE OFF TO

2:13:11 NARROW THE LANE OR YOU WANT TO

2:13:13 SCRAPE OFF THE AREA WHERE CARS

2:13:14 MIGHT GET HIT BY DOORS OPENING

2:13:16 ABSOLUTELY DO THAT BUT DON'T

2:13:18 PUT AN A BIKE ICON IN IT TRYING

2:13:19 TO WISH IT INTO BEING AN ACTUAL

2:13:21 BIKE LANE IF IT ISN'T.

2:13:23 AND FINALLY I WANT THE CITY

2:13:25 COUNCIL TO PASS THE SAFE

2:13:26 STREETS ORDINANCE LIKE

2:13:27 CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE TO

2:13:28 ENFORCE A TIMELINE FOR

2:13:29 INSTALLATION OF PHYSICAL

2:13:31 INFRASTRUCTURE TO PROTECT BIKE

2:13:33 LANES AND CROSSWALKS SO FEWER

2:13:34 STREETS ARE DEPENDENT ON

2:13:36 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS DOING

2:13:37 THEIR JOBS.

2:13:38 THANK YOU.

2:13:39 THANK YOU SO MUCH ZACHARY.

2:13:40 UM MATTHIAS THEN ARIANA

2:13:42 VELASQUEZ IS MATTHIAS STILL

2:13:44 HERE?

2:13:45 OH.

2:13:46 THANK YOU.

2:13:47 AWESOME.

2:13:47 HI.

2:13:48 I'M JUST.

2:13:48 GOING TO.

2:13:49 STAND OVER HERE.

2:13:49 SO YOU CAN.

2:13:50 SEE ME.

2:13:51 UH, HI.

2:13:52 MY NAME IS MATTHIAS IRIS.

2:13:53 I'M A MASTER'S OF SOCIAL WORK

2:13:54 STUDENT AT BOSTON COLLEGE.

2:13:56 AND I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU MY

2:13:57 STORY ABOUT OBSTRUCTED BIKE

2:13:58 LANES IN 2022, A DRIVER WAS

2:14:01 OBSTRUCTING THE DOOR ZONE BIKE

2:14:02 LANE ON THE VARSITY WAY.

2:14:03 AS I WAS RIDING DOWN THE STREET

2:14:05 AS I PASSED BY THE CAR, I

2:14:06 TAPPED THE DRIVER'S SIDE MIRROR

2:14:07 WITH MY OPEN HAND TO EXPRESS

2:14:09 ANNOYANCE AND DISAPPROVAL FOR

2:14:10 BLOCKING THE BIKE LANE.

2:14:12 I STOPPED AT THE RED LIGHT ON

2:14:13 THE MAZDA AND CAUSEWAY AND THEN

2:14:15 I WAS SHOVED OFF MY BIKE ONTO

2:14:16 THE SIDEWALK.

2:14:17 THE DRIVER OF THAT CAR STOOD

2:14:19 OVER ME SCREAMING AT ME FOR

2:14:21 TOUCHING HIS CAR AND PUNCHED

2:14:22 ME TWICE IN THE HEAD WHILE

2:14:23 CALLING ME SEXUAL SLURS.

2:14:25 I FELL TO THE SIDEWALK IN SHOCK

2:14:26 AND HE RAN BACK TO HIS CAR AND

2:14:28 REVERSED DOWN LOMAS NE WHICH IS

2:14:29 A ONE WAY STREET AND TURNED

2:14:31 ONTO A SIDE STREET.

2:14:32 NO WITNESSES INTERVENED AND

2:14:34 ASKED ME IF I WAS OKAY AS I SAT

2:14:35 ON THE SIDEWALK SHAKING AND

2:14:36 CRYING ON THE PHONE TO BOSTON

2:14:38 POLICE TO REPORT THE ASSAULT.

2:14:40 BPD SHOWED UP 30 MINUTES LATER

2:14:42 ,LOOKED AROUND AND SAID THE

2:14:43 DRIVER WASN'T THERE ANYMORE AND

2:14:45 SHRUG SHRUGGED OFF MY ASSAULT.

2:14:47 I HAVE AN IMMENSE AMOUNT

2:14:49 OF SYMPATHY FOR PARKING

2:14:50 ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS.

2:14:51 THEY DO NECESSARY AND EXTREMELY

2:14:52 DANGEROUS WORK TO TRY TO

2:14:54 PROTECT OUR SAFETY, BUT

2:14:55 AUTOMATED ENFORCEMENT

2:14:56 OF PARKING INFRACTIONS MUST BE

2:14:58 A PRIORITY.

2:14:58 THE CITY OF BOSTON MUST MAKE

2:15:00 THE NECESSARY LEGAL MANEUVERS

2:15:01 TO ENABLE CAMERA ENFORCEMENT

2:15:02 OF BIKE LANE OBSTRUCTIONS BY

2:15:04 BUS CAMERAS, SAFETY STICKS OR

2:15:06 OTHER AUTOMATED MEANS.

2:15:08 PHYSICAL SEPARATION MUST BE

2:15:09 ANOTHER PRIORITY MAKE IT

2:15:11 PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE OR VERY

2:15:12 DIFFICULT FOR DRIVERS TO ACCESS

2:15:14 BIKE LANES AND THAT WILL

2:15:15 PROTECT BIKE LANES AND CYCLISTS

2:15:17 24 OVER SEVEN WITHOUT BIAS

2:15:19 WITHOUT RISK OF VIOLENCE TO ANY

2:15:21 PERSON ANY STREET WITH A DOOR

2:15:23 ZONE OR GUTTER BIKE LANE NEEDS

2:15:24 TO BE REDESIGNED FOR PROTECTED

2:15:26 BIKE LANES.

2:15:26 THE CITY OF BOSTON MUST NEVER

2:15:28 INSTALL A NEW DOOR ZONE OR

2:15:30 GUTTER BIKE LANE.

2:15:31 ALL BIKE LANES MUST BE

2:15:32 PHYSICALLY PROTECTED.

2:15:34 MAYOR WU HAS SAID SHE TOOK OUT

2:15:36 THE FLEX POSTS BECAUSE THEY

2:15:37 WERE UGLY AND BACK BAY BUSINESS

2:15:39 OWNERS ASKED HER TO.

2:15:41 I THINK BLOOD ON THE STREET,

2:15:43 BROKEN BONES AND

2:15:43 DEAD BOSTONIANS ARE UGLIER THAN

2:15:45 FLEX POSTS.

2:15:46 THANK YOU.

2:15:46 THANK YOU MATTHIAS AND I LOOK

2:15:48 FORWARD TO CHATTING WITH YOU

2:15:49 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN MY

2:15:51 DISTRICT.

2:15:51 THAT'S HORRIBLE.

2:15:52 AND UM, JUST I THINK TRAFFIC

2:15:55 VIOLENCE AND TRANSPORT YOU

2:15:56 KNOW, UH, VIOLENCE AGAINST UH,

2:15:59 CYCLISTS IS A VERY REAL THING

2:16:01 AND SO JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE

2:16:03 THAT AND THANK YOU FOR TELLING

2:16:05 YOUR STORY.

2:16:06 UM, ARIANNA VELASQUEZ I DON'T

2:16:10 SEE ARIANNA HERE.

2:16:11 UH, WE HAVE A TON OF PEOPLE

2:16:12 ONLINE, SO WE'RE GOING TO MOVE

2:16:15 TO ERICA.

2:16:15 SHIRA MIGHT HAVE LOST SOME

2:16:18 OF THEM, BUT ERICA.

2:16:19 SHIRA.

2:16:21 OKAY.

2:16:25 ALL RIGHT.

2:16:26 HELLO.

2:16:27 UM, PERFECT.

2:16:28 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:16:30 OKAY.

2:16:30 THANK YOU.

2:16:31 UM, HI, I'M ERICA SHIRA.

2:16:32 I'M, UH, ROXBURY RESIDENT, UM,

2:16:34 AND A PARENT I BIKE EVERY DAY

2:16:37 INCLUDING WITH KIDS AND WITH A

2:16:38 DISABLED PERSON, UH, WHO CAN'T

2:16:40 DRIVE.

2:16:41 I'M ALSO A DEVELOPMENTAL

2:16:43 CLINICIAN AND, UH, FREQUENT

2:16:44 EXPERT WITNESS IN CHILD SAFETY

2:16:45 AND IN DISABILITIES.

2:16:47 UM, IT'S PRETTY MUCH IMPOSSIBLE

2:16:49 FOR CHILDREN OR DISABLED PEOPLE

2:16:51 IN THIS CITY TO BIKE PLACES

2:16:52 INDEPENDENTLY BECAUSE THERE'S

2:16:54 THIS ATTITUDE THAT, UM, BIKE

2:16:55 LANES ARE AN AMENITY FOR

2:16:56 HOBBYISTS RATHER THAN LEGALLY

2:16:58 BINDING DISABILITY

2:16:59 INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:17:01 UM CHILDREN GENERALLY CAN'T

2:17:03 ASSESS THE SPEED OF ONCOMING

2:17:05 TRAFFIC UNTIL ABOUT AGE 14 AND

2:17:07 A LOT OF DISABLED AND

2:17:07 NEURODIVERGENT ADULTS JUST

2:17:09 CAN'T.

2:17:10 UM, WE HAVE NO WAY OF KNOWING

2:17:11 BY LOOKING WHO'S DISABLED OR

2:17:13 WHO'S A NEW CYCLIST.

2:17:14 A LOT OF PEOPLE CAN'T JUST GO

2:17:15 AROUND AND NO ONE SHOULD HAVE

2:17:17 TO.

2:17:18 SO UM, CORRECTLY DESIGNED AND

2:17:20 ENFORCED BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE

2:17:22 CAN BE USED BY AN EIGHT YEAR

2:17:23 OLD CHILD OR BY A

2:17:25 DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED PERSON

2:17:26 WHO'S BEEN TAUGHT ONE ROUTE AND

2:17:27 CAN'T DEVIATE UH, CORRECTLY

2:17:29 DESIGNED INFRASTRUCTURE IS

2:17:30 NEVER BLOCKED AND IF IT MUST BE

2:17:31 THERE'S SOMEONE DIRECTING

2:17:32 TRAFFIC.

2:17:33 SO IF YOU'RE PARKING THOSE

2:17:34 MUNICIPAL VEHICLES FOR UP TO

2:17:35 ONE HOUR, SOMEONE NEEDS TO BE

2:17:37 OUTSIDE OF THOSE HELPING PEOPLE

2:17:38 GET PASSED.

2:17:39 UM I AGREE WITH OTHERS THAT A

2:17:41 LOT OF PEOPLE INCLUDING THE

2:17:43 POLICE DON'T ACTUALLY

2:17:44 UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S ILLEGAL

2:17:45 AND UNSAFE TO BLOCK THE LANES.

2:17:47 UM, EVERY DAY I ASK PEOPLE TO

2:17:49 MOVE LIKE LOOK, THERE'S THERE'S

2:17:50 KIDS HERE THAT NEED TO GET

2:17:52 PASSED.

2:17:52 UM, THEY'RE USUALLY POLITE BUT

2:17:54 THEY, UM, EXPLAIN WHY THEY'RE

2:17:56 ALLOWED TO BE IN THE BIKE LANE.

2:17:57 UH, U.P.S. AND THE POSTAL

2:17:59 SERVICE BOTH PART OF BLOCKING

2:18:01 THE ENTRANCE OF THE PARKING

2:18:03 PROTECTED BIKE LANES WHILE THEY

2:18:04 WALK THE ROUTES.

2:18:04 UM, BECAUSE THE ENTRANCES

2:18:06 AREN'T PROTECTED FROM VEHICLES

2:18:07 PULLING IN AS OTHER PEOPLE HAVE

2:18:09 MENTIONED.

2:18:09 UM, AND THIS OCCURS IN

2:18:10 COUNCILOR DURKIN'S DISTRICT.

2:18:12 UM ONE SPOT ON BOYLSTON STREET

2:18:13 THAT I HAVE BEEN REPORTING FOR

2:18:15 YEARS.

2:18:15 UM WE EVENTUALLY HAD A UPS

2:18:17 DRIVER THROW PACKAGES AT US

2:18:18 WHEN I ASKED THEM NOT TO BLOCK

2:18:20 OUR ACCESS TO MY CHILD'S

2:18:21 PEDIATRICIAN'S OFFICE SO THE

2:18:23 CITY COULD HAVE PREVENTED THIS.

2:18:24 UM, IS MY CHILD SAFETY NOT

2:18:25 WORTH A COUPLE OF BOLLARDS?

2:18:27 YOU TELL US TO REPORT TO 311

2:18:29 AND YOU'LL ADDRESS IT.

2:18:30 UM, I SEARCHED AND I FOUND

2:18:33 18,301 REPORTS THAT WERE CLOSED

2:18:34 WITH THE RESPONSE CONTACT 311.

2:18:37 YOU ARE 311.

2:18:38 UM, SO DISABLED FOLKS ARE

2:18:40 CONTACTING YOU USING A METHOD

2:18:41 ACCESSIBLE TO THEM AND YOU'RE

2:18:42 PRESUMABLY SAYING YOU'LL ONLY

2:18:43 LISTEN TO PEOPLE WHO USE THE

2:18:45 PHONE.

2:18:45 UM, SO I AGAIN THANK YOU FOR

2:18:47 DOING ALL THIS.

2:18:48 LET'S GET TO WORK AND LET'S

2:18:49 KEEP PEOPLE SAFE.

2:18:50 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:18:51 UH, ERICA, THAT'S A REALLY

2:18:53 IMPORTANT PERSPECTIVE.

2:18:53 UM.

2:18:54 MISHA.

2:18:54 SHIRA.

2:18:59 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

2:19:01 MARY TENENBAUM AND GEORGE POPS

2:19:04 AND SORRY, POP STEFAN OFF.

2:19:13 HELLO.

2:19:14 THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

2:19:15 GOOD AFTERNOON.

2:19:16 MY NAME IS MICAIAH SHIRA.

2:19:17 PRONOUNS PLAY THEM.

2:19:18 I'M THE COLORED STUDENT

2:19:20 TESTIFYING AS A DISABLED,

2:19:23 LEGALLY BLIND PERSON WHO USES A

2:19:25 WHITE CANE.

2:19:27 I AM UNABLE TO USE THEM.

2:19:29 UNABLE TO LEAVE THE HOUSE

2:19:30 WITHOUT A GUIDE DUE TO VEHICLES

2:19:32 CONSTANTLY BLOCKING CROSSWALKS

2:19:33 AND CURB CUTS.

2:19:34 I CAN'T LEAVE AT ALL ON TRASH

2:19:36 DAYS BECAUSE OF THE BINS ALL

2:19:38 OVER THE SIDEWALK.

2:19:40 I HAVE MADE HUNDREDS OF THREE

2:19:41 AND ONE REPORTS ABOUT THE SAME

2:19:43 INTERSECTIONS IN MY

2:19:44 NEIGHBORHOOD WITH PICTURES

2:19:45 OF ME TRAPPED AND THEY ARE JUST

2:19:47 IGNORED.

2:19:48 IF I NEED TO ACROSS THE STREET

2:19:50 AND THE CURB CUT IS BLOCKED.

2:19:52 I AM JUST STUCK.

2:19:55 CONSTRUCTION IS ONE OF THE

2:19:56 WORST OBSTACLES EVEN THOUGH

2:19:59 THERE IS USUALLY A DETAIL

2:20:00 OFFICER.

2:20:01 PEOPLE DO CONSTANTLY DO NOT

2:20:03 RECOGNIZE WHAT A WHITE CANE

2:20:04 MEANS OR CONSIDER WHAT TYPES

2:20:06 OF DIRECTIONS TO GIVE POLICE

2:20:09 OFFICERS IF THEY BOTHER TO

2:20:10 ASSIST ME AT ALL WILL GESTURE

2:20:11 WHICH IS JUST A USELESS BLUR TO

2:20:14 ME OR THEY GIVE ME DIRECTIONS

2:20:15 LIKE COME ON AND JUST JUST GO.

2:20:17 THAT'S JUST USELESS.

2:20:19 I HAVE NEVER ONCE HAD SOMEONE

2:20:20 GIVE ME VERBAL DIRECTIONS WHERE

2:20:22 I SHOULD GO IF I WERE BY MYSELF

2:20:24 AND ONCE AGAIN JUST BE STUCK.

2:20:27 WE'RE SENSING A THEME HERE.

2:20:29 WHEN SIDEWALKS ARE BLOCKED OFF.

2:20:31 CONTRACTORS DON'T ALWAYS USE

2:20:32 THE STANDARD CONES AT THE BAR

2:20:34 THAT WHITE CANE USERS KNOW.

2:20:35 THEY OFTEN USE SANDWICH BOARDS

2:20:37 OR BUCKETS SO IT JUST SEEMS

2:20:38 LIKE ANY POORLY ENFORCED

2:20:40 CLUTTERED BOSTON SIDEWALK OR

2:20:42 THEY PUT NOTHING AT ALL JUST

2:20:43 HAVE LADDERS AND EQUIPMENT ON

2:20:44 THE SIDEWALK FOR BLIND PEOPLE

2:20:45 TO CRASH IN TO.

2:20:47 THIS MORNING ACTUALLY THE CITY

2:20:48 LITERALLY RIPPED OUT THE

2:20:50 SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE

2:20:51 WITH NO NOTICE EXCEPT FOR

2:20:53 PARKING SIGNS.

2:20:54 THE CITY NEEDS A SYSTEM THAT

2:20:56 SENDS OUT NOTIFICATIONS

2:20:58 OF SIDEWALK ENCLOSURES.

2:20:59 AND AS FAR AS I KNOW BOSTON

2:21:01 POLICE DOES ZERO REINFORCEMENT

2:21:03 OF VEHICLES THAT ARE BLOCKING

2:21:04 THE BOX.

2:21:05 WE ALL KNOW THE HOTSPOTS.

2:21:07 FOR THIS.

2:21:07 IMAGINE BEING A VISUALLY

2:21:09 IMPAIRED PERSON TRYING TO CROSS

2:21:10 THE STREET, ENCOUNTERING CARS

2:21:13 AND HAVING NO IDEA IF THEY ARE

2:21:15 PARKED, STOPPED MOVING, COMING

2:21:17 OR GOING.

2:21:18 IF THEY NOTICE ME AND TRY TO

2:21:20 HELP THEY.

2:21:21 EITHER SCREAM.

2:21:22 OR HONK THE HORN.

2:21:23 NEVER HAS SOMEONE DONE THE ONE

2:21:25 THING THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE

2:21:26 HELPFUL AND GIVE ME VERBAL

2:21:27 DIRECTIONS OR GET OUT TO GUIDE

2:21:29 ME.

2:21:29 IF THE CITY WOULD LIKE TO

2:21:31 ARRANGE AN OFFICER TO FOLLOW

2:21:32 ME AROUND AND ISSUE TICKETS TO

2:21:34 PEOPLE WHO DON'T STOP FOR WHITE

2:21:35 CANE USERS AND CROSSWALKS, YOU

2:21:37 KNOW WHERE TO FIND ME.

2:21:37 THANK YOU.

2:21:38 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:21:39 AND UM, WE ACTUALLY MET, UH,

2:21:41 WITH ASG AND A GROUP OF FOLKS

2:21:44 ABOUT JUST MAKING, UM,

2:21:47 CONSTRUCTION IN THE DISTRICT

2:21:49 MORE, YOU KNOW, PREDICTABLE FOR

2:21:51 RESIDENTS AND I DON'T THINK

2:21:54 DISABILITIES EVER CAME UP IN

2:21:55 THAT CONVERSATION.

2:21:56 IT WAS ALL ABOUT QR CODES AND

2:21:58 NOTIFICATIONS AND PICTURES.

2:21:59 SO I'D LOVE TO FOLLOW UP WITH

2:22:01 YOU ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAKE, UM,

2:22:03 CONSTRUCTION AND AND EVERYTHING

2:22:04 THAT YOU'RE DISCUSSING SORT

2:22:06 OF MORE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST

2:22:08 OF WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON AT THE

2:22:09 CITY.

2:22:09 YES.

2:22:10 THANK YOU.

2:22:13 UM.

2:22:13 GEORGE.

2:22:16 POP STEPHAN OF YOU CAN TELL

2:22:19 ME IF I GOT THAT RIGHT.

2:22:23 AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

2:22:24 SAM FENCED IN AND THEN JORDAN

2:22:26 JUSTICE.

2:22:31 I'M HERE.

2:22:32 CAN YOU.

2:22:32 HEAR ME?

2:22:33 YES.

2:22:33 YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:22:35 OKAY.

2:22:36 SOMETHING IS OFF WITH MY, UH

2:22:38 ,SET UP.

2:22:38 I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.

2:22:40 I CAN'T HEAR.

2:22:41 YOU ANYMORE.

2:22:41 UM.

2:22:42 I CAN SEE YOU.

2:22:43 NOW I.

2:22:44 CAN ADJUST.

2:22:45 SORRY ABOUT THIS.

2:22:47 YEAH, I CAN SEE YOU AND HEAR

2:22:49 YOU NOW.

2:22:58 CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

2:22:59 YES I CAN.

2:23:01 I FOR SOME.

2:23:02 REASON I CAN'T HEAR YOU.

2:23:03 I'M JUST GOING TO GO AHEAD AND,

2:23:04 UM.

2:23:05 UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

2:23:06 UH, COUNCILOR DURKAN, UM.

2:23:10 I DON'T HAVE A SCRIPT.

2:23:11 TO SHARE, SO I'LL JUST GIVE YOU

2:23:13 MY OWN LEARNED EXPERIENCE.

2:23:14 LIVED EXPERIENCE?

2:23:15 UM, HAVING LIVED IN BOSTON THE

2:23:18 LAST SIX YEARS.

2:23:19 UH, I LIVE IN SOUTHIE.

2:23:21 UH, MY OFFICE IS DOWNTOWN, UH,

2:23:23 IN THE PALM BUILDING.

2:23:25 I HAVE FRIENDS ALL OVER BOSTON

2:23:27 .

2:23:27 UH, HYDE PARK, DORCHESTER SOME

2:23:29 JUST ACROSS THE RIVER IN, UM,

2:23:32 SOMERVILLE AND CAMBRIDGE.

2:23:34 SO, UM, IN.

2:23:35 SHORT.

2:23:36 I GET AROUND BY WHATEVER

2:23:39 MEANS IS, UH, MOST EFFICIENT

2:23:42 AND HOW I FEEL SAFE SO I GET

2:23:44 AROUND BY FOOT.

2:23:45 SOMETIMES I TAKE THE TEA.

2:23:47 UM, SOMETIMES I RIDE MY BIKE.

2:23:49 I ALSO HAVE A CAR AND THERE'S

2:23:51 ALWAYS THIS DECISION OF, UH,

2:23:53 WHICH MODE DO I CHOOSE?

2:23:55 AND, UH, WHAT MAKES SENSE BASED

2:23:57 ON WHERE I'M GOING?

2:23:58 UH, AND ONE EXAMPLE IS THIS

2:24:00 MORNING I HAD APPOINTMENT UM,

2:24:02 AT THE HOSPITAL.

2:24:03 UH, YOU JUST MADE THE VIDEO THE

2:24:05 OTHER DAY.

2:24:06 UH, WHERE YOU WERE ON CAMBRIDGE

2:24:07 STREET.

2:24:08 I ACTUALLY HAD TO TAKE THAT, UH

2:24:10 ,EXACT BIKE LANE TO GET THERE.

2:24:12 I FOUND IT MOST EFFICIENT TO

2:24:13 GET THERE AND BACK, UH, FOR

2:24:14 WORK, UH, WITH MY BIKE.

2:24:17 SO I TOOK THAT BIKE LANE AND AS

2:24:19 YOU CAN PREDICT AS YOU WERE

2:24:21 TRYING TO SHOW IN YOUR VIDEO,

2:24:22 YOU COULD EXPECT THERE TO BE

2:24:23 CARS PARKED THERE.

2:24:24 UH, AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

2:24:27 UM, WHAT HAPPENED THIS MORNING

2:24:29 WAS UH, A CAR UH, HAPPENED TO

2:24:32 PULL INTO THE BIKE LANE AND

2:24:33 STOPPED SUDDENLY AS I WAS

2:24:34 COMING DOWN AND AS YOU KNOW,

2:24:36 IT'S A DOWNHILL.

2:24:37 SO YOU DO HAVE SOME MOMENTUM.

2:24:39 I WASN'T ABLE TO STOP QUICKLY

2:24:41 ENOUGH DUE TO THE CAR SO I HAD

2:24:43 TO SWERVE INTO THE ROAD AND

2:24:45 LUCKILY THERE WASN'T A CAR

2:24:47 IMMEDIATELY THERE BUT.

2:24:48 THERE WERE CARS BEHIND.

2:24:49 AND SO FOR A BRIEF SECOND I

2:24:51 THOUGHT I MIGHT BE THE NEXT

2:24:53 AGAG.

2:24:54 UM AND YOU KNOW, IT'S IT'S

2:24:56 UNFORTUNATE THAT THIS IS A

2:24:58 DAILY EXPERIENCE.

2:24:59 UM, TRYING TO WALK AROUND

2:25:02 BOSTON TRYING TO BIKE AROUND

2:25:03 BOSTON.

2:25:05 UM, YOU KNOW, MY WIFE SHARES

2:25:06 THE SAME, UH, EXPERIENCE

2:25:08 WALKING AROUND TOWN, UH, GOING

2:25:10 TO WORK, GOING TO WHERE SHE, UH

2:25:13 ,YOU KNOW, GOES TO DO HER

2:25:14 FITNESS THINGS.

2:25:15 SO, UM, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, I

2:25:18 HEARD A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE

2:25:19 ANGRY.

2:25:20 UM, I HEARD A LOT OF THE

2:25:22 PANELISTS SAY WE'RE DOING A LOT

2:25:24 TO ADDRESS THIS, BUT THE LIVED

2:25:25 EXPERIENCE ON THE STREET IT

2:25:27 JUST DOESN'T MATCH.

2:25:28 I THINK THE VOLUME

2:25:30 OF VIOLATIONS WAY OUTPACES THE

2:25:32 ,UH, ENFORCEMENT.

2:25:34 AND TO THE EXTENT THAT YOU

2:25:35 COULD GIVE RESOURCES TO THAT

2:25:38 FORCE PEOPLE TO EITHER HAVE

2:25:39 MORE OF THEM TO IMPLEMENT

2:25:42 CAMERAS SIMPLE INFRASTRUCTURE

2:25:43 IT WOULD BE GREATLY

2:25:45 APPRECIATED.

2:25:46 I THINK THE THING I'VE NOTICED

2:25:48 IS UM, SOMETIMES IT TAKES

2:25:49 SOMEBODY DYING TO IMPLEMENT A

2:25:51 BIKE LANE AND WE DON'T NEED TO

2:25:52 DO THAT EVERY SINGLE TIME.

2:25:54 THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

2:25:55 THANK YOU.

2:25:55 THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:25:57 UM, AND THEN I THINK WE MISS

2:25:59 MARY TENENBAUM.

2:26:01 SO I WANTED TO GO BACK TO HER

2:26:03 IF SHE'S STILL HERE.

2:26:04 YES.

2:26:05 HELLO.

2:26:05 HI, MARY.

2:26:07 GO AHEAD.

2:26:07 OKAY.

2:26:08 UM, THANK YOU FOR THIS

2:26:09 HEARING AND FOR THE.

2:26:10 OPPORTUNITY TO OFFER TESTIMONY

2:26:11 .

2:26:11 MY NAME IS MARY.

2:26:12 TENENBAUM AND I LIVE IN WEST

2:26:13 ROXBURY.

2:26:14 ILLEGAL PARKING A BIKE LANE SO

2:26:15 PEDESTRIAN.

2:26:16 CROSSINGS IS.

2:26:17 OFTEN FRAMED AS A MINOR

2:26:18 INCONVENIENCE EASILY SOLVED IF

2:26:19 YOU JUST GO AROUND THE

2:26:20 ILLEGALLY PARKED VEHICLE.

2:26:21 I AM HERE TO SAY THAT IT IS A

2:26:23 MORE CONSEQUENTIAL SAFETY

2:26:24 ISSUE.

2:26:24 ILLEGALLY PARKED CARS

2:26:25 OBSTRUCTING INTERSECTIONS,

2:26:27 SIGHTLINES AND CROSSWALKS.

2:26:28 PEDESTRIANS, BICYCLES AND

2:26:29 TURNING CARS INVISIBLE TO EACH

2:26:30 OTHER RAISING THE CHANCES THAT

2:26:32 SOMEONE WILL BE HIT BY A CAR

2:26:33 WHEN A BIKE PLAY THIS BLOCK THE

2:26:35 FORCES PEOPLE ON BICYCLES LIKE

2:26:36 ME TO MERGE INTO CAR TRAFFIC

2:26:38 WHICH IS OFTEN DANGEROUS WITH

2:26:39 RISK OF BEING HIT AND HAS

2:26:40 CAUSED ME TO FACE THREATENING

2:26:42 AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR FROM

2:26:43 DRIVERS.

2:26:43 THE ISSUE IS CITYWIDE BUT I

2:26:45 FIND IT ESPECIALLY FRUSTRATING

2:26:46 AT HOME IN WEST ROXBURY.

2:26:48 I'M GRATEFUL THAT FINISHING WAS

2:26:49 REDESIGNED, BUT I'M DEEPLY

2:26:50 FRUSTRATED THAT THE PARKING

2:26:51 PROTECTED BIKE LANE OR ITS

2:26:53 NECESSARY SAFETY BUFFER HAS

2:26:54 BEEN BLOCKED BY PARKED CARS ON

2:26:56 MORE THAN HALF OF MY TRIPS.

2:26:58 PARKING IN THE LANE ITSELF

2:26:59 MAKES IT ENTIRELY IMPASSABLE.

2:27:00 PARKING IN THE BUFFER MAKES IT

2:27:02 A TREACHEROUSLY NARROW DOOR

2:27:03 ZONE BETWEEN CARS AND A CURB

2:27:04 WHERE I'VE HAD CLOSE CALLS AND

2:27:06 WHERE ANOTHER CYCLIST WAS TAKEN

2:27:07 TO THE HOSPITAL AFTER BEING

2:27:08 DWARFED BY A PASSENGER EXITING

2:27:10 A CAR.

2:27:10 SO I STILL SOMETIMES TAKE THESE

2:27:11 RISKS ALONE AND HOPE I'LL MAKE

2:27:13 IT HOME SAFELY.

2:27:13 THE CALCULUS IS DIFFERENT WHEN

2:27:15 I AM TRAVELING WITH MY TWO YEAR

2:27:16 OLD DAUGHTER.

2:27:17 SHE LOVES RIDING IN OUR CARGO

2:27:18 BIKE AND PLACES LIKE THE MARKET

2:27:19 USE A CLASS IN THE PLAYGROUND

2:27:21 BUT A BLOCK BIKE LANE MEANS

2:27:22 THAT WE CAN'T USE IT TO GET

2:27:24 AROUND TOGETHER SAFELY WITHOUT

2:27:25 A SAFE ROUTE.

2:27:26 WE CAN'T GO.

2:27:27 THERE ARE HUNDREDS

2:27:29 OF UNANSWERED PLAYGROUND WHEN

2:27:30 COMPLAINTS ABOUT BLOCK BIKE

2:27:31 LANES ON CENTER STREET ALONE.

2:27:32 THE SHEER VOLUME OF REPORTS

2:27:34 SHOWS THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM.

2:27:35 BUT WHEN OF COURSE WITH

2:27:36 INCREASES BACKLASH FROM THE

2:27:38 TICKETED DRIVER IT SEEMS TO

2:27:39 DAMPER THESE EFFORTS.

2:27:40 THEREFORE THERE IS A PRESSING

2:27:41 NEED FOR PHYSICAL SEPARATION TO

2:27:42 SOLVE THE ISSUE AND I ASK THAT

2:27:44 PLEASE CONSIDER INSTALLING CAST

2:27:45 AND PLACE CONCRETE BARRIERS ON

2:27:47 CENTER STREET TO PROMOTE SAFETY

2:27:48 FOR EVERYONE.

2:27:49 THANK YOU FOR LISTENING.

2:27:50 THANK YOU MARY.

2:27:52 UM YOUR CITY COUNCILOR IS THE

2:27:53 ONLY OTHER ONE LEFT SO HE IS

2:27:55 LISTENING.

2:27:56 I CAN I CAN TELL YOU HE'S IN

2:27:57 THE ROOM.

2:27:58 SAM VINSON AND THEN JORDAN

2:28:00 JUSTICE.

2:28:09 HELLO?

2:28:11 UH, GOOD.

2:28:12 GO AHEAD.

2:28:12 WE CAN HEAR YOU.

2:28:14 OKAY.

2:28:14 UM.

2:28:15 I'M SAM I'M A RESIDENT

2:28:18 OF AUSTIN.

2:28:18 UM, THE ONE COMMENT I WANT TO

2:28:20 MAKE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT

2:28:21 ENFORCEMENT IS THAT THERE IS UM

2:28:24 THERE WAS TALK EARLIER ABOUT

2:28:27 EVERYONE IS REPORTING THESE AND

2:28:28 THEN AN OFFICER HAS TO GO AND

2:28:29 IT'S TOO LATE.

2:28:30 IF WE HAVE PEOPLE HAPPILY

2:28:32 REPORTING THESE TAKING PHOTOS

2:28:35 OF CARS CLEARLY IN VIOLATION

2:28:37 OF PARKING REGULATIONS.

2:28:38 I DON'T SEE WHY ONCE WE GET

2:28:40 THAT HOME RULE STUFF WORKED OUT

2:28:41 THAT CAN'T BE ENOUGH TO CHARGE

2:28:44 AND PUNISH SOMEONE FOR THAT AND

2:28:46 WHY WE CAN'T USE THAT MONEY TO

2:28:48 FUND MORE SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS

2:28:50 ON OUR STREETS.

2:28:51 BUT OF COURSE THE REAL THING

2:28:53 EVERYONE WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IS

2:28:55 THAT INSTEAD OF PUNISHING

2:28:56 PEOPLE AFTER THE FACT, WE CAN

2:28:58 PREVENT THESE THINGS FROM

2:28:59 HAPPENING BY DESIGNING STREETS

2:29:01 WHERE IT IS DIFFICULT TO DO

2:29:03 THIS.

2:29:04 RACE INTERSECTIONS HAVE COME UP

2:29:05 CURB EXTENSIONS.

2:29:07 UM SPEED BUMPS ACTUALLY

2:29:09 SEPARATED BIKE LANES.

2:29:12 UM AND THE THING IS WE TALKED

2:29:13 ABOUT ALL THIS IN APRIL.

2:29:15 I WAS THERE IN CITY HALL

2:29:16 TESTIFYING ABOUT STREET SAFETY

2:29:18 AND I'VE SEEN VERY LITTLE IF

2:29:20 ANYTHING COME FROM THAT AND SO

2:29:21 MANY TRAGEDIES HAVE HAPPENED IN

2:29:23 THE MEANTIME.

2:29:24 AND WHILE I HAVE BEEN HAPPY TO

2:29:26 SEE SOME CHANGES IN THE STREETS

2:29:27 DEPARTMENT UM, IT JUST FEELS

2:29:30 WILD WHEN ALL OF THESE ARE

2:29:32 ANSWERED BY OH WE LOVE VISION

2:29:33 ZERO AND WE'RE LOOKING INTO THE

2:29:36 IS SOMERVILLE, AS MANY PEOPLE

2:29:37 HAVE POINTED OUT IS RIGHT NEXT

2:29:39 TO US AND THEY'VE BEEN DOING

2:29:40 THIS FOR YEARS JUST ON A ROLL

2:29:43 EVERY TIME I WALK THROUGH A NEW

2:29:45 INTERSECTION HAS BEEN

2:29:45 REDESIGNED, CROSSINGS RAISED,

2:29:49 UM ETC. AND IT FEELS LIKE WE

2:29:50 JUST SIT HERE BEING LIKE OH NO

2:29:52 WE WE JUST WE JUST CAN'T FIGURE

2:29:54 IT OUT.

2:29:55 BOSTON'S JUST TOO COMPLICATED

2:29:56 FOR THAT.

2:29:57 UM, SO I HOPE THAT I DON'T HAVE

2:30:00 TO DO THIS A THIRD TIME AND

2:30:02 TALK ABOUT WHY WE NEED TO

2:30:04 ACTUALLY ACT INSTEAD

2:30:04 OF THINKING ABOUT ACTING AND

2:30:06 THINKING ABOUT HOW CERTAIN

2:30:08 DRIVERS MIGHT RESPOND BECAUSE

2:30:09 IT SOUNDS LIKE EVERYONE WHO'S

2:30:10 SPOKEN TODAY ON THE COUNCIL AND

2:30:12 IN THE AUDIENCE HAS BEEN IN

2:30:14 FAVOR OF ALL OF THESE.

2:30:15 THERE'S NO ONE WHO DOESN'T LIKE

2:30:17 SAFETY.

2:30:17 UH, THERE IS A LOT OF SPITE

2:30:19 THOUGH TOWARDS BIKERS WHICH IS

2:30:21 KIND OF RIDICULOUS AND

2:30:22 SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN EQUAL

2:30:24 STANDING.

2:30:24 UM, WITH SAFETY CONCERNS.

2:30:26 UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH, SAM.

2:30:28 UM, YES, IT'S REALLY EASY AND

2:30:31 IT SOUNDS LIKE EVERYBODY'S ON

2:30:32 BOARD WITH ALL THE THINGS BUT

2:30:34 WE LITERALLY HAD TWO COUNCILORS

2:30:36 THAT VOTED AGAINST EXTENDING

2:30:38 AND GETTING NEW BIKES AS PART

2:30:39 OF THE COMPACT THAT EXIST.

2:30:41 SO IT'S NOT YOU KNOW, IT SOUNDS

2:30:43 LIKE EVERYBODY'S ON THE SAME

2:30:44 PAGE BUT NOT NOT EVERYONE'S ON

2:30:46 THE SAME PAGE WHEN IT ACTUALLY

2:30:47 COMES TO THE DETAILS.

2:30:48 AND I DO THINK THESE PUBLIC

2:30:50 HEARINGS AND THE TIME THAT

2:30:52 EVERYONE'S TAKING TO TESTIFY

2:30:54 DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

2:30:55 THE VIDEOS YOU MAKE ONLINE, THE

2:30:56 POSTS YOU MAKE ON REDDIT THEY

2:30:58 ALL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

2:30:59 AND SO I THINK IT'S REALLY

2:31:01 IMPORTANT THAT WE WE SHARE THAT

2:31:03 AS LIKE WHEN I SEE SOMETHING

2:31:05 HAPPEN IN MY DISTRICT ONLINE IT

2:31:08 I SEE IT AND IT MAKES A

2:31:09 DIFFERENCE TO ME.

2:31:10 SO ALL OF THAT UM AND I WANT TO

2:31:12 SAY THE UM 311 UH REPORTS THAT

2:31:16 HAVE AND THE BIKE BUREAU THAT

2:31:17 MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO ME AND

2:31:19 THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE TO US

2:31:20 AND I KNOW THERE'S UM A LOT

2:31:23 OF ACTIVISM THAT'S GOING ON

2:31:24 ONLINE AND ALSO THE UM THE

2:31:27 BLOCKED BIKE LANES, UH, ONLINE

2:31:30 UH BIKE LANES BLOCKED THAT.

2:31:32 I MEAN, I'M LOOKING AT THAT A

2:31:33 LOT OF US ARE LOOKING AT THAT

2:31:35 AND IT'S THAT ACTIVISM DOES

2:31:37 ABSOLUTELY MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

2:31:38 AND SO UM WE HAVE ONE LAST

2:31:41 TESTIMONY UNLESS ANYONE ELSE IS

2:31:42 ONLINE JORDAN JUSTICE.

2:31:46 THANK YOU, CHAIR.

2:31:47 DURKAN I.

2:31:48 WILL, UH, HOPEFULLY.

2:31:49 KEEP THIS QUAGSIRE.

2:31:50 EVERYBODY CAN.

2:31:51 GET BACK TO.

2:31:51 THEIR DAYS.

2:31:52 I APPRECIATE YOU.

2:31:53 HAVING MEJIA AND TO THE

2:31:54 REMAINING MEMBER OF THE

2:31:55 COMMITTEE.

2:31:56 I AM.

2:31:56 JORDAN JUSTICE CEO

2:31:58 OF AUTOMOTIVE.

2:31:58 WE HELP CITIES KEEP.

2:31:59 BIKE LANES.

2:32:00 CROSSWALKS, TRAVEL LANES AND

2:32:02 LOADING ZONES CLEAR USING

2:32:03 CAMERA ASSISTED CURB

2:32:05 MANAGEMENT.

2:32:05 BLOCKED BIKE LANES AND

2:32:07 CROSSWALKS ARE MOSTLY CURB

2:32:08 MANAGEMENT PROBLEMS AND CITIES

2:32:09 THAT TREAT THEM THAT WAY HAVE

2:32:11 BEEN SEEING RESULTS FOR QUITE

2:32:12 SOME TIME.

2:32:13 PITTSBURGH, MIAMI BEACH AND

2:32:15 HOBOKEN ALSO MAIL PARKING

2:32:17 TICKETS FOR BIKE LANES,

2:32:18 CROSSWALKS AND LOADING ZONES

2:32:20 AND HAVE RESULTED IN MASSIVE

2:32:21 REDUCTIONS OF 63 TO 97% IN

2:32:24 DOUBLE PARKING AS WELL AS

2:32:26 CORRESPONDING REDUCTIONS IN

2:32:28 FATALITIES AND SERIOUS

2:32:28 INJURIES.

2:32:29 ENFORCEMENT IS OFTEN AN

2:32:31 EFFECTIVE AND NECESSARY METHOD

2:32:32 TO TACKLING THESE SAFETY

2:32:34 VIOLATIONS.

2:32:35 HOWEVER, THERE'S ALSO OTHER

2:32:36 SOLUTIONS IN CITIES LIKE

2:32:38 PHILADELPHIA, MIAMI, PITTSBURGH

2:32:39 AND HOUSTON.

2:32:40 WE SUPPORT SMART LOADING ZONE

2:32:42 PROGRAMS ESSENTIALLY LIKE E-Z

2:32:44 PASS FOR THE CURB AND JUST BY

2:32:46 MANAGING THE CURB BETTER

2:32:47 INCREASING TURNOVER THROUGH

2:32:48 PAID LOADING ZONES THAT ARE

2:32:50 AUTOMATED OR ANYBODY CAN OPT

2:32:51 IN.

2:32:52 WE'VE SEEN REDUCTIONS IN DOUBLE

2:32:53 PARKING FROM 36 TO 61% THAT

2:32:56 WOULDN'T REQUIRE A HOME RULE

2:32:57 AND COULD BE ACTIONABLE.

2:32:59 IMPROVING LOADING ZONE TURNOVER

2:33:01 ALSO REDUCES PEOPLE BLOCKING

2:33:03 TRAVEL LANES.

2:33:04 TRAFFIC IN CENTER CITY

2:33:06 PHILADELPHIA IMPROVED 30%

2:33:07 DURING RUSH HOUR IN ADDITION TO

2:33:08 THE MASSIVE REDUCTION IN DOUBLE

2:33:10 PARKING.

2:33:10 AND THIS IS JUST A RESULT

2:33:12 OF BETTER MANAGING LOADING

2:33:13 ZONES.

2:33:13 IN ADDITION TO POTENTIALLY

2:33:15 ENFORCING OTHER SAFETY

2:33:17 VIOLATIONS AND THESE ARE

2:33:18 RESULTS THAT WE'VE SEEN ACROSS

2:33:19 MORE THAN 15 PLUS PEER CITIES

2:33:21 IN THE US.

2:33:22 AND OFTENTIMES THESE LOADING

2:33:25 ZONE AND BIKE LANE THESE BUS

2:33:26 STOP AND OTHERWISE SAFETY

2:33:28 VIOLATIONS LAST WHAT WE SEE ON

2:33:30 AVERAGE LESS THAN TEN MINUTES.

2:33:31 SO IT'S REALLY VERY DIFFICULT

2:33:32 FOR ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO BE

2:33:34 RELIABLY DISPATCHED EVEN

2:33:35 THROUGH A311 TO CITE THESE AND

2:33:37 CHANGE BEHAVIOR.

2:33:39 THERE ARE TWO STEPS THAT WE SEE

2:33:40 THAT BOSTON CAN TAKE RIGHT NOW.

2:33:42 FIRST, PROVIDE A LEGAL SPOT FOR

2:33:45 THESE FOLKS TO STOP THAT IS NOT

2:33:47 IN A BIKE LANE OR IN A

2:33:48 CROSSWALK OR TRAVELING.

2:33:50 THESE CAN BE PAID SHORT TERM

2:33:51 SMART LOADING ZONES THAT HAVE

2:33:53 BEEN PROVEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY

2:33:54 AND IN PLACES WHERE OTHER

2:33:55 CITIES HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO

2:33:56 MAIL PARKING TICKETS AS WELL

2:33:58 WHERE THEY ESSENTIALLY MAIL THE

2:33:59 INVOICES FOR UNPAID USE TO

2:34:00 ENSURE THOSE SPACES ARE TURNING

2:34:02 OVER OR THEY'RE USING.

2:34:03 ADMINISTRATIVE FLIGHTS.

2:34:05 UM, WE'RE JUST AT TIME SO UM, I

2:34:08 KNOW THAT, UM, THANK YOU FOR

2:34:10 TESTIFYING.

2:34:12 WE ARE GOING TO KEEP THIS IN

2:34:14 COMMITTEE AND I KNOW THERE'S

2:34:15 SOME ADDITIONAL WORK THAT'S

2:34:16 GOING TO BE DONE.

2:34:18 UM, SIMILAR TO CAMBRIDGE, UM,

2:34:20 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE

2:34:21 ABILITY TO DO AUTOMATED

2:34:23 ENFORCEMENT.

2:34:23 I'LL JUST BE VERY CLEAR THAT

2:34:24 OUR COMMITTEE HAS NO ROLE IN

2:34:28 PROCUREMENT.

2:34:28 SO WE DEFINITELY DON'T DO ANY

2:34:30 PROCUREMENT OF ANYTHING.

2:34:31 AND SO SIMPLY HAVING THE

2:34:32 ABILITY TO DO AUTOMATED

2:34:34 ENFORCEMENT IT WOULD BE THE

2:34:35 FIRST STEP.

2:34:36 UM, AND UH LOOK FORWARD TO

2:34:39 CONTINUING THAT CONVERSATION

2:34:40 WITH MY COLLEAGUES.

2:34:41 UM SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE

2:34:43 FOR BEING HERE TODAY.

2:34:44 UM, I WANT TO THANK UM

2:34:46 SPECIFICALLY THOSE THAT HAVE

2:34:47 SHARED THEIR PERSONAL STORIES.

2:34:48 UM, WE'VE ALSO RECEIVED

2:34:49 OF CEIVED A LOT OF TESTIMONY UM

2:34:52 ,ONLINE AND VIRTUALLY AND

2:34:54 THROUGH EMAIL.

2:34:54 UM, SO I WANT TO THANK EVERY

2:34:56 SINGLE PERSON WHO REACHED OUT

2:34:57 AND UH WE WILL CONTINUE THIS

2:34:59 CONVERSATION.

2:34:59 DOCKET ONE FIVE AND BY THE WAY,

2:35:02 WE WILL SCHEDULE SOME MORE

2:35:03 HEARINGS IN THIS COMMITTEE

2:35:04 REGARDING THIS AND OTHER

2:35:06 SUBJECT MATTER.

2:35:07 DOCKET ONE FIVE UH FOUR THREE

2:35:10 IS NOW ADJOURNED.