Planning, Development and Transportation on October 22, 2026
2026-10-22

[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.