2026-11-05 - City Council - Planning, Development, and Transportation Committee (Dockets 1418 and 1542)

00:47FOR THE RECORD MY NAME IS

00:49SHARON DURKAN, DISTRICT EIGHT

00:50CITY COUNCILOR AND I'M THE

00:51CHAIR OF THE CITY

00:52COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON PLANNING

00:53DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSPORTATION

00:54.

00:54TODAY IS OCTOBER 5TH.

00:56THE EXACT TIME IS 2:06 A.M. UH

00:58,THIS HEARING IS BEING

01:00RECORDED AND IS ALSO BEING LIVE

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01:18AVAILABLE TO ALL COUNCILORS.

01:19PUBLIC TESTIMONY WILL BE TAKEN

01:21AT THE END OF THIS HEARING.

01:22INDIVIDUALS WILL BE CALLED ON

01:23IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THEY'VE

01:24SIGNED UP AND WILL HAVE TWO

01:25MINUTES TO TESTIFY.

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01:28,PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE

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01:41FOR THE LINK AND YOUR NAME WILL

01:42BE ADDED TO THE LIST.

01:43TODAY'S HEARING IS ON DOCKET

01:471418 ORDER FOR A HEARING TO

01:48REVIEW THE STATUS OF BOSTON'S

01:49CITYWIDE BIKE NETWORK PLAN.

01:51THIS MATTER IS SPONSORED BY

01:53COUNCILORS BEN WEBER AND

01:54ENRIQUE PEPEN AND WAS REFERRED

01:56TO THE COMMITTEE ON JULY 22ND,

01:582026 AND DOCKET 154 TO ORDER

02:02FOR A HEARING TO REVIEW SAFETY

02:04OPERATION OF HEAVY COMMERCIAL

02:05VEHICLES AND POTENTIAL MEASURES

02:07TO PROTECT PEDESTRIANS AND

02:08CYCLISTS IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

02:10THIS MATTER WAS SPONSORED BY

02:13COUNCILOR VAN WEBER AND WAS

02:14REFERRED TO THE COMMITTEE ON

02:16JULY 22ND 2026.

02:17UM TODAY WE'VE BEEN JOINED BY

02:18THE LEAD SPONSOR

02:20COUNCILOR WEBER GRAHAM AND

02:21WE'VE ALSO BEEN JOINED BY

02:22COUNCILORS COLE PEPPER, WEBER,

02:23FLYNN AND FITZGERALD.

02:25SORRY, SAID WEBER TWICE BUT HE

02:28IS HERE.

02:30UM AND UM I DON'T HAVE ANY

02:32LETTERS OF ABSENCE AT THIS TIME

02:33BUT I WILL READ THOSE INTO THE

02:34RECORD.

02:35UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK

02:36COUNCILORS WEBER AND PEPEN FOR

02:38SPONSORING THESE TWO DOCKETS.

02:39UH, WE'RE ALSO JOINED BY

02:40COUNCIL PRESIDENT WAS BREADON.

02:41I'D LIKE TO THANK

02:43COUNCILOR WEBER AND PEPEN FOR

02:44SPONSORING THESE TWO DOCKETS.

02:46UM, YESTERDAY WE HAD A VERY, UM

02:49,SOMBER UH, COUNCIL MEETING,

02:51UM, FOR WORLD DAY

02:53OF REMEMBRANCE, UM, FOR ROAD

02:55TRAFFIC VICTIMS.

02:56AND WE ALSO HEARD A CALL TO

02:57ACTION FROM THE GOG FAMILY.

02:59THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT REMINDER

03:00THAT WE MUST ACT URGENTLY ON

03:02ALL FRONTS TO DO EVERYTHING WE

03:03CAN TO PREVENT FURTHER

03:05TRAGEDIES AND MAKE OUR MAKE

03:07PROGRESS.

03:08UM, BUT ACTUALLY REALIZE OUR

03:10VISION ZERO COMMITMENTS.

03:11IT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT

03:12WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION

03:13.

03:14I'LL KEEP MY OPENING REMARKS

03:15SHORT BECAUSE WE HAVE MULTIPLE

03:17PANELS AND A LOT OF FOLKS HERE

03:19TO TESTIFY.

03:20BUT I DO WANT TO EMPHASIZE A

03:21FEW THINGS BOSTON HAS BEEN

03:23INVESTING IN BIKE

03:24INFRASTRUCTURE SINCE 2010.

03:25WE'VE HAD A LONGSTANDING

03:27COMMITMENT TO BUILD MORE

03:28CONNECTED, ACCESSIBLE,

03:28SUSTAINABLE AND MULTIMODAL CITY

03:30AND WHILE WE'VE MADE A LOT

03:32OF PROGRESS ON SAFETY, THERE'S

03:33STILL SO MUCH TO DO IN TERMS

03:35OF A BIKE NETWORK.

03:36WE KNOW WHAT WE NEED TO DO.

03:37WE KNOW WHERE THE GAPS ARE.

03:39UM I WISH THEY WERE HIGHLIGHTED

03:40ON A MAP BUT I HOPEFULLY WE GET

03:42THAT IN THE PRESENTATION TODAY.

03:44UM IN HIGH TRAFFIC CORRIDORS

03:45ARE WE KNOW THAT SEPARATED BIKE

03:47INFRASTRUCTURE HELPS KEEP

03:48EVERYONE SAFER ON OUR ROADS AND

03:50I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH THE

03:51IMPORTANCE OF OUR VISION ZERO

03:53DATA AND UM THE NEED TO UPDATE

03:55THE BIKE NETWORK INFORMED BY

03:57WHERE HIGH CRASH NUMBERS AND

03:59CONTINUED RISKS OCCUR.

04:01UM I'VE HAD MANY CHALLENGING

04:03CONVERSATIONS ABOUT BIKE

04:04INFRASTRUCTURE IN MY DISTRICT.

04:05LIKE I SAID YESTERDAY, WE NEED

04:07TO PUSH BACK ON DANGEROUS

04:08NARRATIVES OF ABUTTERS NOTHING

04:10IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN SAFETY

04:11ON OUR STREETS AND ANYONE WHO

04:13TRAVELS THROUGH THEM AND MAKING

04:15PROGRESS TAKES POLITICAL

04:16LEADERSHIP AND WE NEED TO HOLD

04:17EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE TO THAT.

04:19THERE IS SO MUCH WORK WE NEED

04:21TO DO TO PROTECT CYCLISTS

04:22PEDESTRIANS AT ALL TIMES WHEN

04:23THEY'RE AT INTERSECTIONS.

04:25WE UM WE NEED ALL TRUCKS TO

04:27HAVE SAFETY FEATURES LIKE SIDE

04:29GUARDS FOR DRIVERS TO RECEIVE

04:31EDUCATION AND TO SHARE WITH

04:33RESIDENTS HOW TO NAVIGATE

04:34SAFETY AND TAKE CAUTION WHEN

04:36THEY'RE ON STREETS WITH HEAVY

04:37COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.

04:38I'D LIKE TO THANK CHIEF OSGOOD

04:40KEVIN MAYOR FOR EVERYTHING YOU

04:41DO AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

04:42TODAY.

04:43I'D ALSO LIKE TO THANK UM, JEN

04:45FITZGERALD WHO I KNOW DOES A

04:46GREAT JOB, ONE OF MY FAVORITES

04:47BACK THERE.

04:47YEAH.

04:48THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

04:49UM, I KNOW YOU'RE ALL WORKING

04:51HARD TO MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER,

04:52UM, AND EXPAND ACCESS TO BIKES

04:53AND I LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING

04:55HEARING MORE FROM YOU TODAY.

04:56UM, I ALSO LOOK FORWARD TO

04:58HEARING FROM ADVOCATES AND

04:59EXPERTS IN TRANSPORTATION

05:00PLANNING AND POLICY WHO HAVE

05:01JOINED US FOR THE SECOND PANEL

05:02AND I'D LIKE TO THANK ALL

05:03OF THE RESIDENTS AND COMMUNITY

05:04MEMBERS WHO ARE HERE TODAY.

05:06THANK YOU FOR CARING ABOUT OUR

05:07STREETS.

05:08NOW WITH THAT I'M GOING TO TURN

05:09IT OVER TO LEAD SPONSORS FOR

05:10THEIR OPENING REMARKS.

05:12BUT I'D ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT

05:13WE'VE BEEN JOINED BY

05:14COUNCILOR AT LARGE RICHIE

05:15LOUIJEUNE.

05:15UH, COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE

05:17THE FLOOR AND THREE MINUTES.

05:19UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIR.

05:21AND THANK YOU TO THE PANELISTS

05:22AND EVERYONE HERE IN THE ROOM.

05:24UM, YOU KNOW, SO ON JULY 9TH,

05:27YOU KNOW, OUR COLLEAGUE LUIS

05:28AGAG WAS KILLED BY A TRUCK

05:29WHILE RIDING, UH, YOU KNOW, HER

05:31BIKE ON A CITY STREET AND I'M

05:34SAD TO SAY IT'S IT'S WHY WE'RE

05:35HAVING THIS HEARING.

05:37UH, TODAY UM, YESTERDAY WE

05:39HEARD FROM, YOU KNOW, OUR

05:40SISTER, UH, WHO CHALLENGED US

05:42TO TURN OUR SUPPORT INTO ACTION

05:44AND MAKE GOOD ON OUR

05:45COMMITMENTS.

05:46UM, CERTAINLY THE ACCIDENT IT'S

05:49BROUGHT BROUGHT TO MIND TWO

05:51THINGS.

05:52ONE WAS, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN WE

05:54HAVE A CITYWIDE BIKE NETWORK

05:55WHERE YOU KNOW, YOU CAN YOU CAN

05:57LOOK AT A MAP AND SAY OKAY, I'M

05:59GOING FROM POINT A TO POINT B

06:00AND HERE'S THE BIKE NETWORK.

06:02I JUST YOU KNOW I KNOW THERE'S

06:04PLANS AND I KNOW WE'VE MADE

06:06PROGRESS.

06:07UH BUT YOU LOOK AT THE CITY AND

06:08IT'S REALLY YOU KNOW HASN'T

06:10QUITE COME TOGETHER UH SO HOW

06:12DO WE DO THAT?

06:12AND AT THE SAME TIME, UH, YOU

06:14KNOW, I THINK IT WAS A MONTH

06:16AFTER, UH, LOUISA WAS KILLED

06:18THE GLOBE EDITORIAL, UH, WAS

06:20TITLED WE SHOULDN'T HAVE THIS

06:21MANY BIG TRUCKS OPERATING OUR

06:23STREETS AND THEY CITED A

06:25STATISTIC THAT ONLY 2.6%

06:27OF REGISTERED VEHICLES IN

06:28MASSACHUSETTS ARE TRUCKS, BUT

06:29THEY ACCOUNT FOR 28% OF CYCLING

06:31FATALITIES AND 5% OF PEDESTRIAN

06:33DEATHS ON THE ROAD.

06:35AND ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL

06:37ASSOCIATION OF CITY

06:38TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS,

06:40NATIONALLY LARGE TRUCKS

06:41COMPRISE 4% OF THE U.S. VEHICLE

06:42FLEET AND ARE INVOLVED IN 7%

06:45OF PEDESTRIAN DEATHS AND 11%

06:47OF BIKE FATALITIES AND 12%

06:49OF CAR AND TRUCK OCCUPANT

06:50FATALITIES.

06:51I MEAN, SO WE HAVE AND I WAS

06:53SURPRISED TO LEARN WE WE DON'T

06:55HAVE ROUTES FOR THE TRUCKS.

06:57UH WE WE HAVE SOME STREETS

06:58WHERE THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO

06:59GO AT LEAST THAT'S MY

07:00UNDERSTANDING.

07:00SO HOW CAN WE CREATE MORE

07:03DESIGNATED ROUTES, YOU KNOW,

07:04FOR THE TRUCKS AND THEN MAKE

07:06SURE THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE IS

07:08IS THERE SO BIKES ARE NOT GOING

07:10DOWN THOSE STREETS OR IF THEY

07:11ARE THEY'RE IN PROTECTED BIKE

07:13LANES.

07:14UH AND I FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD

07:15BE ABLE TO LINE UP THESE THESE

07:16MAPS AND UH, YOU KNOW, BE ABLE

07:19TO ESTABLISH UH SAFE ROUTES FOR

07:21BIKES AND MORE RESTRICTIONS FOR

07:23FOR FOR TRUCKS.

07:24AND I'LL JUST ADD THAT I KNOW

07:25THERE'S RULES IN PLACE THAT UH,

07:28AROUND YOU KNOW, UH, WITH MAYBE

07:30CITY CONTRACTS WITH WHAT TRUCKS

07:32ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE IN TERMS

07:33OF PROTECTIONS AND YOU KNOW,

07:34HOW CAN WE EXPAND THAT I DO I I

07:37DO KNOW THAT, UH, CONGRESSWOMAN

07:39PRESLEY IS PURSUING THIS.

07:41WE WE HAD A MEETING WITH BIKES

07:42UP ARMS AND I KNOW HER OFFICE

07:44IS WORKING ON THIS AT THE

07:45FEDERAL LEVEL AND THAT MAY BE

07:47WHAT'S REQUIRED, BUT WHAT CAN

07:48WE DO AT THE CITY TO SORT OF,

07:50YOU KNOW, UH, MAKE MAKE IF NOT

07:52SOLVE THE PROBLEM AT LEAST, YOU

07:53KNOW, REDUCE THIS AS A AS A AS

07:56A SAFETY ISSUE FOR FOR FOR

07:58CYCLISTS AND PEDESTRIANS.

07:59SO AGAIN THANK YOU TO THE CHAIR

08:01AND AND THANK YOU TO EVERYONE

08:02FOR FOR COMING AND I LOOK

08:04FORWARD TO HEARING EVERYONE'S

08:06UH TESTIMONY.

08:06THANK YOU SO MUCH

08:07COUNCILOR WEBER.

08:08UM, COUNCILOR PEPEN, YOU HAVE

08:09THREE MINUTES.

08:10THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

08:12AND THANK YOU TO MY MY

08:14CO-SPONSOR ON THIS

08:15COUNCILOR WEBER AND

08:16COUNCILOR DIRK.

08:17I KNOW THAT COUNCILOR BREADON

08:18AS WELL.

08:18IT'S BEEN A GOOD PARTNER ON

08:19THIS ON THIS TOPIC.

08:21UM, I THINK THAT UH, YOU KNOW,

08:23EVER SINCE UM, JULY 9TH THIS

08:25HAS BEEN A VERY MUCH AT THE TOP

08:26OF MY HEAD.

08:27I THINK THAT YESTERDAY SPOKE

08:29FOR ITSELF.

08:31UM, THOSE WORDS FROM EMILY UM,

08:34I THINK RESONATED WITH ALL

08:35OF US ABOUT JUST TAKING ACTION

08:37AND I JUST WANT TO START WITH

08:38JUST THANKING EVERYONE FOR

08:39BEING THERE YESTERDAY.

08:40UH, THIS IS A TOPIC THAT MY

08:42OFFICE HAS BEEN WORKING VERY

08:44DILIGENTLY ON WITH THE FAMILY

08:45AND MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE

08:47MOVING FORWARD AS A CITY.

08:48UM, UH, IN REGARDS TO MY

08:51DISTRICT AND THE RESIDENTS AND

08:52THE ADVOCATES THAT LIVE THERE

08:53AND THE SUPPORTING GROUPS UM,

08:56THIS IS THE TOP THE

08:57CONNECTIVITY OF OUR BIKE

08:58NETWORK IS SOMETHING THAT COMES

08:59UP VERY OFTEN.

09:00UM, PEOPLE WANT TO MAKE SURE

09:02THAT IF THEY GET ON A BIKE FROM

09:04ANY END OF THE CITY THAT THEY

09:06WANT TO BE ABLE TO GET TO

09:07WHEREVER THEY'RE GOING SAFELY

09:09AND RELIABLE AND RELIABLY.

09:13SO WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS

09:14THERE'S STILL CONCERNS IN MY

09:16DISTRICT LIKE PEOPLE THAT RIDE

09:18ON BELGRADE AVENUE AND HYDE

09:19PARK AV AND AND WASHINGTON

09:22STREET IN ROSLINDALE WHERE

09:24UNFORTUNATELY IT ISN'T THE

09:25SAFEST MODE OF TRANSPORTATION

09:26AND WE WANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW

09:28CAN WE GET THERE.

09:29I DO HAVE POSITIVE EXAMPLES

09:31ALREADY LIKE THE CUMMINS

09:32HIGHWAY REDESIGN THAT I WAS

09:34ABLE TO DO A RIDE ALONG WITH A

09:36FEW MEMBERS OF THE OF THE GROUP

09:37HERE AND BIKE NOT BOMBS WERE A

09:40HUGE LEAD ON THAT.

09:41SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

09:42THAT AS A CITY WE ARE MAKING IT

09:44A PRIORITY TO CREATE THAT

09:46CONNECTIVE NETWORK FOR EVERYONE

09:47SO THAT BIKING IS NOT JUST UM,

09:50YOU KNOW THOSE THAT ALREADY

09:53FEEL COMFORTABLE BIKING.

09:54IT COULD BE A REALITY FOR THOSE

09:55THAT HAVEN'T EVEN CONSIDERED IT

09:57IN THE PAST.

09:57AND SO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS A

09:59RELIABLE SOURCE

09:59OF TRANSPORTATION.

10:00IT'S I THINK I WANT TO GIVE IT

10:02A TRY.

10:02SO THAT'S WHY I WANT TO BE PART

10:03OF THIS CONVERSATION.

10:04LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR WHAT

10:05NOT ONLY THE ADMIN HAS TO SHARE

10:07TODAY BUT HEARING FROM THE

10:08ADVOCATES LATER AS WELL.

10:09THANK YOU.

10:10THANK YOU SO MUCH.

10:10I KNOW WE HAVE TWO PANELS SO UH

10:12WE'RE GOING TO WAIVE OPENING

10:13STATEMENTS FOR EVERYONE WHO WAS

10:15ON OUR CO-SPONSOR.

10:16UM WAS COUNCILOR BREADON ON ONE

10:18OF THESE DOCKETS AS WELL.

10:19OR WAS IT JUST I THINK IT'S

10:20JUST BOTH.

10:21OF YOU.

10:21>> SO OKAY, SO UM WE'RE GOING

10:23TO GO AHEAD AND GO INTO UM

10:25OPENING STATEMENTS AND

10:27PRESENTATION FROM THE

10:29ADMINISTRATION.

10:30WE HAVE CHIEF CHRIS OSGOOD, KIM

10:31FULTZ WHO'S THE BLUE BIKES

10:33DIRECTOR AND MIA CAPONE WHO'S

10:35THE DIRECTOR OF PARKING AND

10:36CURBSIDE MANAGEMENT.

10:37UM, YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

10:39UH, COUNCILOR.

10:40DURKAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH AND

10:41THANK YOU SO MUCH TO, UM, THE

10:43ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL, UM, FOR

10:44YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND YOUR

10:45LEADERSHIP ON THIS WORK.

10:46THANK YOU AS WELL.

10:48UM, FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE TO

10:50HONOR LOUISA AND TO SUPPORT HER

10:51FAMILY AND THEIR ADVOCACY, UH,

10:54AROUND ROAD SAFETY.

10:55UM, THANK YOU AS WELL TO THE

10:56MANY, MANY PEOPLE BOTH, UH,

10:58HERE IN THIS ROOM AND BEYOND

11:00OUR PARTNERS, OUR ADVOCATES,

11:01OUR CONSTITUENTS WHO SHARE THIS

11:03FUNDAMENTAL COMMITMENT, UH, TO

11:05ACHIEVING THE VISION ZERO HERE

11:06IN THE CITY OF BOSTON.

11:07AND THANK YOU AS WELL.

11:08UH, TO KIM FULTZ, OUR BOSTON

11:09BIKES DIRECTOR AND TO ME A

11:10CAPONE UH, FOR UH FOR JOINING

11:12ME ON THIS PANEL.

11:12UM, WE ARE AS YOU HEAD OUT

11:14GOING TO TALK ABOUT TWO THINGS

11:15UM, WORK AROUND VEHICLE SAFETY

11:17FOCUS ON TRUCKS AND UH, WORK ON

11:19OUR BIKE NETWORK AS WELL AS

11:20BIKE EDUCATION AND PROGRAMING

11:22VERY MUCH LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR

11:23QUESTIONS AS WELL AS THE

11:24TESTIMONY AND QUESTIONS OF THE

11:25FOLKS WILL FOLLOW ON THE

11:26SUBSEQUENT PANELS.

11:27UM, BOTH COUNCILOR WEBER AND

11:29COUNCILOR PREPARED UM LAID OUT

11:31BOTH THE CLEAR UH, REASON WHY

11:33WE NEED BE FOCUSED ON TRUCK

11:35SAFETY UM AS HAS BEEN

11:36REFERENCES I THINK FOLKS KNOW

11:38UM 12 OCTOBERS AGO IN THIS ROOM

11:41UM THIS CITY COUNCIL UM

11:43SUPPORTED WHAT WAS A FIRST IN

11:44THE NATION UH, ORDINANCE UH

11:47AROUND VEHICLE SIDE GUARDS, UH

11:49AND AND TRUCK PROTECTIONS UH IT

11:51WAS REALLY CHAMPIONED BY THEN

11:52COUNCILOR NOW MAYOR MICHELLE

11:53WU, THEN COUNCILOR NOW

11:55CONGRESSWOMAN AYANNA PRESSLEY

11:57UH, THEN MAYOR AND NOW

11:58SECRETARY WALSH AND THREE UM

11:59STAFF PEOPLE I JUST WANT TO

12:00MENTION FOR THEIR SPECIFIC

12:01LEADERSHIP ON THIS CHARLOTTE

12:03FLEETWOOD WHO HAS BEEN THE

12:04DRIVING FORCE IN THE CITY

12:05OF BOSTON AROUND VISION ZERO,

12:07ALEX EPSTEIN, UH, FROM THE

12:08VOLPI CENTER AT US VDOT WHICH

12:10IS THE INNOVATION RESEARCH HUB

12:12UH BASED IN KENDALL SQUARE, UH

12:13AND A NATIONAL EXPERT ON THIS

12:16WORK AND ONE OF YOUR PANELISTS

12:17THAT'S COMING UP IN 1 OR 2

12:19PANELS, CHRIS CARTER WHO WAS

12:19THEN WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

12:20OF NEURO MECHANICS, UH, AND IS

12:22NOW WITH UH WITH MASSDOT UM,

12:24THAT REALLY FOCUSED ON UH, SET

12:26OF UM REQUIREMENTS FOR CITY

12:28VEHICLES AND VEHICLES THAT WERE

12:29CONTRACTED UM, UM BY THE CITY

12:32OF BOSTON.

12:32UM, SINCE THEN THERE HAS BEEN

12:34PROGRESS BOTH THERE AND

12:35THINKING ABOUT THE NEXT STEPS

12:36THE CITY CAN BE TAKING

12:38INCLUDING IN 2025 UM, THE

12:41PUBLICATION OF A UM UH SAFETY

12:43TRANSITION PLAN AND SUBSEQUENT

12:44WORK THROUGH THE CITY'S CENTRAL

12:45FLEET MAINTENANCE DIVISION.

12:46UM, LOOKING AT UH, INSTALLING

12:48UH, OVER 100 SURROUND CAMERAS

12:50AND 100 AMBIENT SENSITIVE UM

12:52BACKUP UH DETECTION DEVICES TO

12:54MAKE SURE THAT OUR DRIVERS AND

12:55CITY VEHICLES UM ARE AWARE AND

12:58OPERATING WITH MAXIMUM SAFETY

12:59UH, ON THE ROADWAY UM, THERE

13:01WILL BE UH THROUGH THE CITY'S

13:03VISION ZERO UPDATE PLAN UH,

13:05LATER THIS YEAR UM ADDITIONAL

13:06SORT OF OUTLINE OF STEPS AND

13:08ADDITIONAL WORK UM BY UH

13:10CONSTELLATION OF FANTASTIC

13:11ADVOCATES.

13:12UM, UH THAT IS GOING TO FOCUS

13:15AROUND UH TRUCK SAFETY.

13:17UM BUT IN ADDITION TO THE WORK

13:19AROUND UH THE VEHICLE ITSELF,

13:21UM, A LOT OF THE CONVERSATION

13:22IS ALSO ABOUT HOW WE THINK

13:23ABOUT HOW WE HANDLE FREIGHT AND

13:25URBAN LOGISTICS WITHIN THE CITY

13:26OF BOSTON.

13:27SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MAYOR

13:27CAPONE.

13:28WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE WORK THAT

13:29SHE IS LEADING THERE BEFORE

13:30TALKING MORE ABOUT THE BIKE

13:31NETWORK ITSELF.

13:33THANK YOU CHIEF.

13:34GOOD.

13:34UM, SO BOSTON STREETS AND CURBS

13:36I THINK A LOT OF US CAN AGREE

13:38ARE SOME OF OUR CITY'S MOST

13:39VALUABLE PUBLIC ASSETS AND, UM,

13:41REAL ESTATE SIMILAR TO CITIES

13:43ACROSS THE NATION IN RECENT

13:44YEARS INCREASING E-COMMERCE AND

13:46COMPETING AND NEW DEMANDS ON

13:47THE CURBSIDE ARE CONTRIBUTING

13:49TO INCREASE CONGESTION AND

13:50SAFETY RISKS IN EVERY DELIVERY

13:53TRUCK CIRCLING FOR PARKING OR

13:54DOUBLE PARKING IN A BIKE LANE

13:56CREATES BLIND SPOTS, SPOTS AND

13:58HAZARDS FOR PEDESTRIANS,

14:00CYCLISTS AND OTHER DRIVERS TO

14:02BE ABLE TO DEVELOP EFFECTIVE

14:04STRATEGIES AND A PLAN TO

14:05ADDRESS THIS, WE'RE TAKING A

14:07DATA FIRST APPROACH.

14:08OUR CURBSIDE MANAGEMENT TEAM IS

14:10MAPPING OUT EXACTLY WHERE, WHEN

14:12AND HOW LOGISTICS ACTIVITY IS

14:14HAPPENING ACROSS BOSTON RIGHT

14:15NOW WE ARE CURRENTLY GATHERING

14:17AND ANALYZING DATA NOT JUST ON

14:19CURB USE BUT ALSO TO UNDERSTAND

14:21TRUCK DENSITY, ROUTE

14:23BOTTLENECKS, VEHICLE MILES

14:24TRAVELED, IDLING TIMES AND

14:26EMISSION IMPACT AND MOST

14:28IMPORTANTLY CRASH HISTORY.

14:29THIS ANALYSIS WILL HELP US

14:31GROUND FUTURE CONVERSATIONS

14:32WITH UM STAKEHOLDERS LIKE LOCAL

14:34BUSINESSES, FLEET COMPANIES AND

14:36RESIDENTS TO BE ABLE TO

14:38PRIORITIZE POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS

14:39THAT WILL UM WE WILL BE ABLE TO

14:42PILOT AND UNDERSTAND HOW THEY

14:44DELIVER THE MOST BENEFITS AND

14:46UM, ADDRESS SOME OF THE MOST

14:48CRITICAL AREAS OF NEED IN OUR

14:49CITY, POTENTIAL INTERVENTIONS

14:51THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING AND THIS

14:53PLAN COULD INCLUDE INCLUDE

14:55USING DYNAMIC PRICING AND SMART

14:57LOADING ZONES TO ENSURE

14:58DELIVERY DRIVERS HAVE LEGAL

15:00SAFE PLACES TO PULL OVER AND

15:03UNLOAD, REDUCING THE NEED TO

15:04DOUBLE PARK, CREATING

15:06INCENTIVES FOR BUSINESSES TO

15:07RECEIVE THEIR DELIVERIES DURING

15:09OFF HOURS.

15:10PULLING LARGE VEHICLES OUT

15:12OF OUR PEAK COMMUTE TIMES,

15:14SETTING UP CENTRAL DELIVERY AND

15:16LOCKERS AND MICRO HUBS.

15:18SO INSTEAD OF A TRUCK DRIVING

15:20BLOCK BY BLOCK UM THIS COULD

15:22DROP PACKAGES OFF AT ONE

15:24CENTRAL LOCATION WHERE THEY

15:25COULD BE PICKED UP BY RESIDENTS

15:27OR SMALLER SAFER, MORE NIMBLE

15:29VEHICLES UM AND POTENTIALLY

15:31SUPPORTING THE TRANSITION TO

15:33ELECTRIC FREIGHT VEHICLES TO

15:34QUIET OUR STREETS AND CLEAN OUR

15:36AIR.

15:39IN ADDITION TO THE WORK UH

15:42AROUND ROAD SAFETY AND FOCUSED

15:43ON VEHICLES UM, THERE'S A

15:44SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF WORK

15:45ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATION OF OUR

15:46STREETS AND THE PROGRAMS THAT

15:47THAT COMPLEMENT THAT.

15:48SO I'M GONNA TOUCH VERY BRIEFLY

15:49ON THE BIKE NETWORK AND THE

15:50IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR IT.

15:52UM, AS MANY OF YOU ARE AWARE

15:53AND AS SORT OF HIGHLIGHT ON THE

15:55IMAGE ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THIS

15:56UH, THE SCREEN THE UM EARLY

15:59VISION FOR UH THE BIKE NETWORK

16:01WAS LAID OUT IN COLLABORATION

16:03WITH THE COMMUNITY AND CODIFIED

16:04IN THE BOSTON 2030 PLAN.

16:06UM, THAT IS A VISION THAT, UH,

16:08REALLY SPOKE TO THE IDEA

16:09OF SAFE, CONNECTED AND

16:11COMFORTABLE BIKE ROUTES

16:12THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BOSTON

16:13INTO COUNCILOR PRESENTS POINT

16:15CLEARLY AND CONVENIENTLY

16:16CONNECTED RESIDENTS THROUGHOUT

16:17OUR CITY TO DESTINATIONS UM

16:20THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE REGION.

16:22UM WE HAVE MADE PROGRESS

16:23TOWARDS THAT VISION.

16:24ON THE RIGHT YOU SEE SOME

16:25OF THE CHANGES UH, THE STREETS

16:27AND WHAT IS UH WHAT HAS UH THE

16:29STEPS THAT HAVE BEEN TAKEN

16:30SINCE UH UH THE EARLY UH VISION

16:33WAS ESTABLISHED AND OF NOTE, UH

16:35,SINCE THIS WORK STARTED, UH,

16:37WE HAVE BEEN TAKING ANNUAL BIKE

16:38COUNCILOR ENTRIES SINCE 2016

16:40WE'VE SEEN ABOUT A 60% INCREASE

16:42IN RIDERSHIP AND A 23%

16:44REDUCTION IN.

16:46UH.

16:46>> IN BIKE RELATED UH, CRASHES

16:49UH, SINCE THAT TIME OBVIOUSLY

16:50FAR MORE TO GO BOTH IN THE

16:52REACH OF THIS NETWORK UH, AND

16:53ITS IMPACT.

16:54UM, COULD YOU.

16:55>> REFER TO THE RESULTS?

16:56YEP.

16:57>> UH, SO SINCE OUR OUR POINT

16:59IN TIME COUNCIL WE'VE BEEN

17:00TAKING POINT IN TIME COUNTS

17:01SINCE 2016 WE'VE SEEN A 60% SIX

17:040% INCREASE, UH, IN BIKE

17:05RIDERSHIP AND A 23% REDUCTION,

17:08UH, IN CRASHES INVOLVING UM, UH

17:11CYCLISTS IN OUR CITY.

17:13FAR MORE TO GO UH, OBVIOUSLY

17:14BOTH IN THE BUILD OUT OF THE

17:16NETWORK UH AND THE WORK TO DO

17:17BUT THERE AND WHAT THAT

17:19IMPLEMENTATION PLAN LOOKS LIKE

17:21REALLY FOCUSES ON ESSENTIALLY

17:22THE FOUR THINGS THAT YOU SEE ON

17:24THE LEFT HERE.

17:25PART OF IT IS ABOUT

17:26STRENGTHENING THE NETWORK WHICH

17:27WE HAVE ALREADY UM THERE ARE

17:29SOME UH REALLY IMPORTANT ROUTES

17:31UH, THAT UH CONNECT KEY

17:33DESTINATIONS ACROSS THE CITY

17:34OF BOSTON RIGHT NOW THE PAUL W

17:36WHITE PATH SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR,

17:37THE MARYLAND MILES GREENWAY TO

17:39NAME A FEW.

17:40UM BUT PART OF WHAT WE NEED TO

17:41BE ABLE TO DO TO MAKE SURE THAT

17:42ALL OF THOSE SORT OF KEY

17:44BIKEWAYS WORK BEST IS TO SORT

17:46OF ADDRESS SOME OF THE MISSING

17:47LINKS, UH, THAT PERSIST IN SOME

17:49OF THOSE UH AREAS AREAS LIKE

17:50CHARLES STREET SOUTH TO BE ABLE

17:52TO ACTUALLY CONNECT SOMEBODY

17:53WHO MAY BE CYCLING ON TREMONT

17:54STREET IN THE SOUTH END TO BE

17:56ABLE TO CONNECT THEM TO UH, THE

17:57PUBLIC GARDEN AND THE BOSTON

17:59COMMON.

18:00STRENGTHENING THE.

18:00>> BIKE NETWORK THAT EXISTS

18:01TODAY ALSO MEANS THINKING ABOUT

18:02HOW WE ENHANCE THE MATERIALS

18:03THAT WE ARE PUTTING IN PLACE.

18:05UM, WE HAVE DONE A LOT OF THE

18:07EARLY NETWORK BILL WITH PAINT

18:09AND PLASTIC THINGS LIKE

18:10FLEXIBLES UM, THOSE ARE VERY

18:12IMPORTANT UM WAYS IN WHICH WE

18:14CAN UH DELINEATE AND CREATE A

18:15BIKE NETWORK BUT MORE PERMANENT

18:17STRUCTURES LIKE CAST IN PLACE

18:18CONCRETE OR PRECAST PRECAST

18:21STRUCTURES UM, LEND A HIGHER

18:23DEGREE OF PROTECTION AND A

18:25HIGHER DEGREE OF OF PERMANENCE

18:27AND A LOWER ONGOING MAINTENANCE

18:29CHALLENGE.

18:30UM, THAT IS WHAT IS SORT

18:31OF FEATURED IN THE IMAGE IN THE

18:33LOWER RIGHT, UM, WHERE WE'VE

18:34BEEN POURING PRECAST CONCRETE

18:35AS PART OF OUR ANNUAL UH

18:36RESURFACING PROGRAM SOMETHING

18:37WE WERE LOOKING TO SCALE UP IN

18:38THE YEARS AHEAD.

18:39BUT MOST RECENTLY, UH, WAS

18:40BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON STREET,

18:42UH, BETWEEN NEWLAND STREET AND

18:43AVENUE LAFAYETTE, UH, HERE.

18:44>> IN THE.

18:45CITY OF BOSTON.

18:46IN ADDITION TO THINKING ABOUT

18:47HOW WE STRENGTHEN THE NETWORK

18:48TODAY BY CLOSING THOSE KEY

18:49LINKS AND BY UM, UPGRADING OR

18:51ENHANCING THE MATERIALS THAT

18:52WE'RE USING, WE KNOW THAT WE

18:54NEED TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE

18:55NETWORK OVER TIME.

18:56THAT DOES MEAN THAT THERE ARE

18:57PARTS OF OUR CITY WHERE UH WE

18:59NEED TO HAVE HIGH QUALITY UM,

19:01BIKE PATHS AND BIKE WAYS THAT

19:03UM, WE DO NOT YET HAVE

19:05COUNCILOR BENTON MENTIONED ONE

19:06OF THOSE WHICH WE ARE VERY

19:08EXCITED TO FORMALLY CUT THE

19:09RIBBON ON UH, IN THE NEXT TWO

19:11WEEKS AND THAT'S COMMONS

19:12HIGHWAY.

19:12I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY WHO HAS

19:14NOT BEEN ON IT FOR UH, TO WALK

19:16OR TO RIDE UM OR SIMPLY TO SEE

19:17IT UM UH TO GO DO THAT.

19:19THERE ARE OTHER KEY PROJECTS UH

19:21,THOUGH THAT MANY OF WHICH

19:22WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THINGS

19:23LIKE RUTHERFORD AVE AND

19:24CHARLESTOWN OR BLUE HILL HAVE

19:25SOME LARGE PROJECTS THAT ARE

19:26ABOUT THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE

19:27STREET OVER ON WHICH ARE

19:29IMPORTANT WAYS THAT WE CAN

19:30EXPAND THAT OVERALL BIKE

19:31NETWORK AND CREATE HIGH QUALITY

19:33BIKE FACILITIES AND UH, ACROSS

19:35OUR NEIGHBORHOODS IN ADDITION

19:37TO THINK ABOUT EXPANDING OUR

19:38NETWORK THROUGH SOME OF THE

19:39MORE CAPITAL INTENSIVE PROJECTS

19:41,THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF KEY

19:42WORK WHICH IS UH, WE ARE

19:43LOOKING TO DO TO SIMPLY CALM

19:45RESIDENTIAL STREETS AND

19:46HONESTLY WITH AS MUCH CAPITAL

19:47INTENSIVE WORK BUT WAYS IN

19:48WHICH IN SOME OF OUR

19:50NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY WE

19:51CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE

19:52CALMING SPEEDS, IMPROVING

19:54VISIBILITY AND MAKING IT MORE

19:55COMFORTABLE AND SAFE FOR

19:56EVERYBODY TO BE ABLE TO CYCLE,

19:57WALK OR SIMPLY GET AROUND.

19:59THERE'S A LOT OF GOOD WORK

20:00WHICH HAS BEEN DONE ON THAT,

20:02UH, BY OUR PARTNERS IN THE CITY

20:03OF SOMERVILLE AND YOU'LL BE

20:04HEARING FROM BRAD ROSSUM, I

20:05THINK IN ONE OF YOUR SUBSEQUENT

20:06PANELS ABOUT SOME OF THAT WORK,

20:07UH, INITIATIVE TO WORK AROUND

20:08SORT OF EXPANDING THAT NETWORK

20:10OVERALL THERE'S A KEY NEED TO

20:11BE ABLE TO BETTER CONNECT, MAKE

20:13THAT NETWORK THAT

20:14COUNCILOR PENSE MIGHT BE ABLE

20:15TO CONNECT TO SOME KEY

20:16DESTINATIONS ACROSS OUR CITY.

20:17UM, THIS REALLY IS FOR US

20:20THINKING ABOUT HOW WE EXTEND

20:21SOME OF THOSE UH, THE KEY

20:22ROUTES THAT WE HAVE TODAY TO A

20:24PLACE LIKE UH UH IN EGGLESTON

20:27SQUARE HOW WE CONNECT UM UH,

20:29THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR WITH

20:30FRANKLIN PARK, HOW WE MAKE SURE

20:31THAT UH THAT UH, KEY CONNECTION

20:34TO BE ABLE TO GET EVERYBODY WHO

20:35IS UM ON OR NEAR THE CORE TO BE

20:37ABLE TO ACCESS, UH, FRANKLIN

20:39PARK, UM, THIS, UH THIS JEWEL

20:41IN THE HEART OF OUR CITY.

20:42UM, THAT IS SOMETHING WHICH WE

20:43DO EXPECT TO MOVE FORWARD ON

20:44AND WE'LL HAVE SOME COMMUNITY

20:45CONVERSATIONS IN THE NEXT FEW

20:46WEEKS ABOUT, UH, EXACTLY THAT

20:48PLAN SIMILAR CONNECTIONS OR

20:50ABOUT HOW WE CONNECT SOME

20:50OF THE KEY LINKS UH, OVER ALL

20:52THE KEY, UH, BIKE PATHS IN OUR

20:53CITY.

20:54THAT IS WHY PROJECTS LIKE

20:55DARTMOUTH STREET IN THE BACK

20:56BAY WHICH ALLOW US TO BE ABLE

20:57TO CONNECT UH, PEOPLE BETWEEN

20:58THE PAUL W WHITE PATH AND THE

21:00ESPLANADE, UH, TO THE NORTH ON

21:01THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF THE

21:02SOUTH UH, IS AN IMPORTANT LINK

21:04THAT FOR US PART OF CONNECTING

21:06THAT AS WELL IS AND WHICH KIM

21:07WILL TALK UM MUCH MORE MUCH

21:10BETTER ABOUT THAT UH THAT I

21:11WILL IS REALLY BE ABLE TO

21:12PROVIDE AND EMPOWER RESIDENTS

21:13WITH OPTIONS TO BE ABLE TO RIDE

21:15UH, THAT MEANS BE ABLE TO

21:16EXPAND OUR BLUE BIKE SYSTEM AND

21:17THINK ABOUT HOW WE.

21:18MAKE BIKE.

21:19EDUCATION AND BIKE ACCESS

21:20SIMPLY, UH, MORE AVAILABLE TO

21:22OUR RESIDENTS BE ABLE TO

21:23CONNECT THEM WITH THE

21:24OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS OUR CITY.

21:25AND THEN AS WE ALL KNOW, IT

21:26ISN'T JUST ABOUT BUILDING THAT

21:27NETWORK AND PROGRAMING THAT

21:28NETWORK.

21:28IT'S ABOUT HOW WE ACTUALLY

21:29MAINTAIN AND ENFORCE THAT

21:30NETWORK.

21:30UM, SO THAT IT IS A FANTASTIC

21:32UH, FACILITY UM ONGOING AND

21:35THERE IS A HUGE AMOUNT OF FOCUS

21:36UM BY OUR TEAM ACROSS THE

21:38CABINET TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

21:39ARE MAINTAINING THE NETWORK, UH

21:41,GOING FORWARD.

21:41AND AS WE DISCUSSED IN THIS

21:43ROOM, UH, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO

21:44,UH, WITH GREAT WORK BY THE

21:46PARKING ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS IN

21:47THE CITY, HOW WE ENFORCE THAT

21:48NETWORK AND CONTINUE TO ENHANCE

21:49OUR EFFORTS TO DO THAT.

21:51SO I WILL TURN IT OVER TO KIM,

21:53WHO WILL TALK ABOUT THE SORT

21:54OF COMPLIMENTARY PROGRAMING AND

21:55SERVICES THAT SORT OF PARALLEL

21:57A LOT OF THE CAPITAL WORK.

21:58UM, BUT ONE SORT OF QUICK NOTE

22:00JUST SORT OF UNDERSCORE SO MUCH

22:01OF THIS WORK FUNDAMENTALLY IS

22:02ABOUT UH, ROAD SAFETY.

22:04BUT WHAT WE'VE SEEN AND UH, AS

22:06WE HAVE DONE WORK FOCUSED ON

22:07CYCLISTS SAFETY AND THIS WILL

22:09BE UH, SO PART OF THE

22:10INFORMATION THAT WE'LL BE

22:11SHARING AS PART OF OUR VISION

22:12ZERO UPDATE PLAN IS THAT WORK

22:13WE DO TO MAKE THE ROAD SAFER

22:14FOR CYCLISTS HAS THE BENEFIT

22:17OF MAKING THE ROAD SAFER FOR

22:18EVERYBODY.

22:18IT IS MAKING THE ROAD SAFER FOR

22:20PEDESTRIANS.

22:20IT'S MAKING THE ROAD SAFER FOR

22:21FOLKS WHO ARE DRIVING AT THE

22:22SAME SORT OF INTERVENTIONS OR

22:23THINGS THAT NO MATTER HOW YOU

22:24CHOOSE TO MOVE THROUGHOUT THE

22:26CITY, UM CAN MAKE THE CITY

22:28SAFER FOR YOU.

22:28TURN OVER TO.

22:29PLEASE.

22:30>> THANK YOU.

22:31>> CHIEF.

22:32UM, SO AS CHIEF OSGOODE.

22:34JUST SAID, UM, ANOTHER PART.

22:36OF OUR BIKE NETWORK IS.

22:38OUR.

22:39>> UM, BIKE SHARE.

22:39SYSTEM.

22:40>> UM, BLUE BIKES.

22:42SO, UM, BLUE BIKES IS.

22:43PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BY BIKE.

22:45IT PROVIDES.

22:46CONVENIENT, AFFORDABLE, UM AND

22:49UM.

22:49CONVENIENT AFFORDABLE ACCESS.

22:51UM, TO BIKING UH, IN EVERY

22:53NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE CITY.

22:55UM IT ALSO HAS UM UH SORT

22:57OF LESS INTUITIVE.

22:59IMPACT ON SAFETY.

23:00SO ONE OF THE CORE.

23:02COMPONENTS OF VISION.

23:03ZERO IS REDUCING.

23:06EXPOSURE TO.

23:07>> POTENTIAL CONFLICTS FOR

23:08VULNERABLE USERS PEOPLE WALKING

23:09AND BIKING.

23:10UM AND THAT MEANS REDUCING HOW

23:12FAR AND HOW OFTEN PEOPLE ARE

23:14DRIVING.

23:15THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE THAT

23:16HAPPEN IS TO PROVIDE OTHER

23:18OPTIONS TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR

23:19PEOPLE TO TAKE MODES LIKE BIKE

23:22OR BIKE OR TRANSIT UM TO GET

23:24AROUND THE CITY AND MAKE THAT

23:25AN EASY CHOICE FOR PEOPLE.

23:26SO EXPANDING.

23:27OUR BIKE SHARE NETWORK IS.

23:29ONE OF THE MOST COST EFFECTIVE

23:30WAYS.

23:31THAT WE.

23:31>> HAVE TO IMPROVE MOBILITY

23:33OPTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND

23:35REALLY INCREASE THE REACH

23:36OF OUR TRANSIT NETWORK BY

23:37FILLING THOSE FIRST AND LAST

23:38MILE GAPS.

23:40UM THE REGIONAL BIKE SHARE

23:41SYSTEM ALSO CONTRIBUTES TO

23:43SAFETY BY FACILITATING MORE

23:45BIKE TRIPS.

23:46UM DATA SUGGESTS THAT THERE IS

23:47SAFETY IN NUMBERS SO AS MORE

23:49PEOPLE ARE RIDING BIKES, UM

23:51DRIVERS.

23:51BECOME MORE ACCUSTOMED TO

23:53SHARING THE ROAD MINDFULLY WITH

23:55THEM.

23:56UM AND AS CHIEF OSGOODE SAID,

23:57IT ALSO JUST CONTRIBUTES TO

23:59SAFETY FOR ALL USERS OF THE

24:01ROAD.

24:02GO BOSTON 2030 LAID OUT A GOAL

24:05TO EXPAND THE BIKE SHARE

24:06NETWORK.

24:08UM AND IN 2016 IF YOU LOOK AT

24:10THE MAP ON THE TOP UM A LITTLE

24:12HARD TO SEE WITH THE RESOLUTION

24:13HERE BUT YOU COULD UM BASICALLY

24:15DRAW A LINE ACROSS THE CITY UM,

24:17AND THE NORTHERN PART

24:19OF FRANKLIN PARK AND THERE WAS

24:20NO BIKE SHARE TO THE SOUTH.

24:21UM, WE MADE A GOAL OF MAKING

24:23SURE THAT BIKE SHARE WAS WITHIN

24:24A HALF A MILE WALK OF EVERY

24:26HOUSEHOLD IN BOSTON.

24:27UM, TODAY, UM, WE ARE UP TO UM.

24:31NEARLY 91% OF HOUSEHOLDS THAT

24:33ARE WITHIN THAT HALF MILE WALK.

24:34UH, WE'VE TRIPLED THE NUMBER

24:35OF STATIONS IN BOSTON SINCE

24:372016 AND UM RIDERSHIP HAS UH

24:40NEARLY QUADRUPLED OVER THAT

24:41SAME TIME PERIOD SYSTEM WIDE

24:44DURING PEAK MONTHS BLUE BIKE

24:45RIDERS TAKE UM ABOUT 18,000

24:48TRIPS PER DAY.

24:50SO SINCE 2022 WE'VE BEEN

24:51WORKING VERY HARD TO ADD 100

24:54BIKE SHARE STATIONS TO BOSTON'S

24:55BIKE SHARE NETWORK.

24:57UM, WE'RE WE'VE COMPLETED THIS

24:59EXPANSION IN NEARLY EVERY

25:01NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE CITY.

25:03UM, WITH 82 OF 100 OF THOSE

25:05STATIONS DEPLOYED AND IN THE

25:07FIRST HALF OF 2027 WILL FINISH

25:08THAT EXPANSION IN UM,

25:10ROSLINDALE, WEST ROXBURY, HYDE

25:12PARK AND BACK BAY.

25:14UM, SO.

25:16UM THE WELL THE PHYSICAL ASSETS

25:17OF THE BIKE NETWORK ARE

25:18CRITICAL.

25:19WE ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE

25:20MANY SOFT.

25:22>> BARRIERS.

25:22UM TO TO BIKING HOME HERE.

25:25WHICH IS A.

25:36ALL RIGHT.

25:39UM SO UM, WE HAVE BUILT UP UM,

25:42ROBUST COMMUNITY BASED PROGRAMS

25:44THAT ARE REALLY AIMED AT

25:46EXPANDING, UM, BIKING MAKING IT

25:48ACCESSIBLE, AFFORDABLE AND

25:49APPROACHABLE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

25:50SO THE BOSTON BIKES PASS, WHICH

25:52WAS INTRODUCED IN 2023.

25:54PROVIDES A.

25:54>> DEEPLY DISCOUNTED MEMBERSHIP

25:55TO INCOME ELIGIBLE RESIDENTS

25:57OF BOSTON.

25:57ALMOST 20% OF OUR MEMBERS IN UM

26:01BOSTON ARE INCOME ELIGIBLE.

26:03UM E-BIKES AND BIKE SHARE ARE

26:05PROVIDING ACCESS TO BIKING FOR

26:06PEOPLE WHO ARE UNABLE UM TO

26:08RIDE A TRADITIONAL BIKE OR

26:10MAYBE HAVEN'T CONSIDERED IT.

26:11UM AND THEY'RE PROVEN TO BE

26:12VERY POPULAR IN OUR SYSTEM.

26:14SO OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS

26:15ABOUT 29% OF TRIPS HAVE BEEN

26:17TAKEN BY E-BIKE BUT THEY

26:19COMPRISE LESS THAN 12% OF THE

26:21FLEET.

26:22UM, WE ALSO HAVE A VERY ROBUST

26:25ARRAY OF COMMUNITY BIKE

26:27PROGRAMS THAT HELP RESIDENTS

26:28BUILD SKILLS AND CONFIDENCE SO

26:29THEY CAN RIDE UM ON THE STREET

26:31SAFELY AND THEY CAN CHOOSE

26:33BIKING AS A MOBILITY OPTION TO

26:34GET AROUND THE CITY.

26:35WE HAVE AN ADULT LEARN TO BIKE

26:37PROGRAM THAT SINCE IT UM WAS

26:39LAUNCHED AS PROVIDED CLASSES TO

26:42MORE THAN 1500 ADULTS ACROSS

26:44THE CITY HELPING PEOPLE WHO'VE

26:46NEVER LEARNED TO PEDAL BEFORE

26:48OR HELPING THOSE WHO'VE NEVER

26:49GOTTEN ON THE STREET UM DO SO

26:51WITH CONFIDENCE.

26:52OUR YOUTH CYCLING PROGRAM,

26:54WHICH IS PART OF THE SAFE

26:55ROUTES TO SCHOOL PROGRAM UM, WE

26:57PARTNER WITH THE BOSTON PUBLIC

26:58SCHOOLS TO PROVIDE IN-SCHOOL ON

27:00BIKE EDUCATION DURING GYM CLASS

27:02IN THE SUMMERTIME.

27:03WE PARTNER WITH THE.

27:04PARKS DEPARTMENT AND THE BOSTON

27:06CENTERS FOR YOUTH AND FAMILY TO

27:07PROVIDE ON BIKE EDUCATION TO

27:09THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN ACROSS

27:10THE CITY.

27:11THESE YOUTH PROGRAMS.

27:12TOGETHER GET ABOUT 6500 UM

27:15CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE ON

27:17BIKES LEARNING HOW TO RIDE

27:18SAFELY, HOW TO NAVIGATE OUR

27:20STREETS AND TO CHOOSE BIKING AS

27:22AN OPTION.

27:23SO TOGETHER THESE PROGRAMS ARE

27:24REALLY HELPING TO BUILD A

27:25CULTURE OF SAFETY AND EXPAND

27:27MOBILITY OPTIONS AND PROVIDE

27:29THE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE FOR

27:30OUR RESIDENTS TO BE ABLE TO

27:31UTILIZE OUR BIKE NETWORK SAFELY

27:34AND EQUITABLY.

27:38UH AND WITH THAT I LOOK FORWARD

27:39TO YOUR YOUR QUESTIONS AND

27:40COMMENTS AND AGAIN YOUR

27:41CONTINUED PARTNERSHIP BEHIND

27:42THIS INCREDIBLY VALUABLE WORK.

27:44THANK YOU SO MUCH.

27:45UM, I'M GOING TO GIVE EVERYONE

27:48UM SIX MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS.

27:50SO WE'RE GOING TO START WITH

27:51COUNCILOR WEBER.

27:52UM AND JUST WANT TO THANK YOU

27:53ALL FOR THIS PRESENTATION.

27:54THAT WAS REALLY HELPFUL.

27:58OKAY.

27:58>> YEAH.

27:59THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

28:00UM, UH, SO UH, IN TERMS OF LIKE

28:05THE BIKE NETWORK, I READ ABOUT

28:07A GOAL OF 31 MILES.

28:09DO WE HAVE A LIKE A CONCRETE

28:13MILEAGE GOAL AND HOW MUCH

28:15PROGRESS HAVE WE MADE AND WHERE

28:17WE.

28:17ARE SORT OF UM, SO THE OVERALL

28:20NETWORK GOAL THAT I BELIEVE IS

28:21AROUND 116 MILES AT THIS POINT

28:23AROUND.

28:24I BELIEVE A.

28:24LITTLE OVER 30 MILES OF WHICH

28:27UM ARE UH ARE SEPARATED UM, THE

28:30AS WE ARE BUILDING OUR CAPITAL

28:31PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR UH AND AS WE

28:34UM DO SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL

28:35PLANNING UH, IN THE WORK AHEAD

28:37WE WILL BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE

28:39MILEAGE ASSOCIATED WITH SOME

28:40OF THOSE KEY LINKS.

28:40BUT SIMILAR TO YOUR COMMENTS,

28:42UH, COUNCILOR PRESIDENT'S

28:43COMMENTS AND OTHERS UM, WE ARE

28:44NOT JUST LOOKING AT MILES

28:45LOOKING AT RIDERSHIP WHERE

28:46THOSE POTENTIALLY SORT

28:47OF MISSING LINKS THAT CAN MOST

28:49CONNECT PEOPLE TO SOME OF THE

28:50KEY DESTINATIONS IN OUR CITY.

28:52UM, AS YOU HAVE RAISED IN THE

28:54PAST, HOW DO WE THINK ABOUT

28:55WHAT THAT CONNECTION IS?

28:56UH, BETWEEN THE SOUTHWEST

28:57CORRIDOR AND FRANKLIN PARK AND

28:59OTHER LOCATIONS ACROSS OUR CITY

29:00WHERE UM WE ARE NOT JUST ADDING

29:03MILES, WHICH IS ONE IMPORTANT

29:04METRIC BUT REALLY LOOKING AT

29:06WHERE ARE THE KEY INTERSECTIONS

29:08THAT WE CAN MOST REDUCE CRASHES

29:09.

29:09WHAT ARE THE KEY LINKS THAT ARE

29:11MISSING RIGHT NOW THAT WE CAN

29:12MOST.

29:13FEEL OKAY YEAH I THINK I WAS

29:14LOOKING AT THE UH IT'S.

29:15IT'S THE BOSTON GO BOSTON 2030

29:18IS THAT ARE WE STILL USING

29:19THAT?

29:21UH SURE THAT'S THE GUIDE.

29:22YEP.

29:23SO THAT PLAN WHICH IS SORT

29:24OF AS A REINFORCEMENT OF THE

29:27ORIGINAL BIKE NETWORK VISION IS

29:28STILL THE SORT OF FUNDAMENTAL

29:30BIKE NETWORK PLAN FOR THE CITY.

29:31UM, AS WE PROGRESS THROUGH THAT

29:34WE ARE REALLY TAKING.

29:35>> A.

29:36CAPITAL UH, SORT OF YEAR BY

29:38YEAR CONSTRUCTION LOOK AT HOW

29:40WE CAN BEST USE OUR CAPITAL

29:41DOLLARS TO FILL IN, UH, MISSING

29:44LINKS TO SORT OF ADDRESS KEY

29:45INTERSECTIONS AND REALLY IN

29:46PARTNERSHIP WITH UH, FOLKS IN

29:48THE STATE UH, AS WELL AS

29:49THROUGH OUR OWN CAPITAL BUDGET

29:51BUILD SOME OF THE HIGHER

29:52QUALITY UH SECTIONS THAT ARE

29:53CURRENTLY UH.

29:54>> NOT BUILT.

29:55SO IN IN YOUR PLANNING IS THE

29:57GOAL TO.

29:58YOU KNOW.

29:59UH COMPLY YOU KNOW BE HAVE

30:01PREPARED THAT THAT THAT BIKE

30:04NETWORK THAT IS IN BOSTON 2030

30:06BY 2030.

30:07SO THAT THAT'S REALLY REMAINS

30:08THE VISION UH THE

30:09IMPLEMENTATION OF SOME OF THOSE

30:11SECTIONS UH REALLY ARE DONE IN

30:13COLLABORATION.

30:14SO UH WE ARE DOING SOME OF THAT

30:16WORK FOR EXAMPLE, UH THROUGH A

30:18PROJECT UH, LIKE DOING A LAB

30:19WHICH IS WE'RE DOING IN

30:20COLLABORATION WITH THE MTA UM,

30:22A PROJECT BIKE RUTHERFORD TO

30:24HAVE UH THROUGH A REGIONAL

30:25FUNDING FROM THE MPO.

30:27SO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A LOT

30:28OF THAT VISION IS IN

30:30COLLABORATION WITH A SET

30:31OF OTHER PARTNERS AND WITH THAT

30:32REMAINS THE VISION FOR THE

30:33CITY.

30:33OKAY.

30:34>> AND THEN IT JUST.

30:35IF YOU CAN.

30:36GIVE ME MAYBE UH, MY COLLEAGUES

30:38TO UNDERSTANDING ABOUT YOUR

30:40CAPITAL PLANNING WHEN WE'RE

30:42TALKING ABOUT MAYBE A SEPARATED

30:44OR YOU KNOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT

30:46YOU'RE THINKING OF IN TERMS

30:46OF A BIKE LANE.

30:48UM, LIKE HOW HOW MUCH YOU KNOW,

30:50WHAT IS IT PER MILE?

30:52LIKE WHAT WHAT ARE YOU WHAT

30:54WHAT NUMBERS ARE YOU LOOKING AT

30:55WHEN YOU'RE COMING UP WITH A

30:56CAPITAL PLAN FOR LET'S SAY.

30:57FOR FOR.

30:57NEXT YEAR?

30:59SURE.

31:00UM SO IT DOES VARY PRETTY

31:01SIGNIFICANTLY BY THE TYPE OF UH

31:04OF PROJECT THAT WE'RE BUILDING.

31:05SO JUST TO.

31:05GIVE A FEW QUICK EXAMPLES

31:07COMING TO HIGHWAY WHICH HAS

31:08BEEN REFERENCED I WAS ABOUT A

31:09MILE LONG STRETCH ROUGHLY WAS

31:11THE $31 MILLION CAPITAL PROJECT

31:14UM I BELIEVE 31 BUT SOMEWHERE

31:15IN THAT RANGE AROUND $31

31:16MILLION.

31:17UM, THAT OBVIOUSLY INCLUDED FAR

31:18MORE THAN BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE

31:19AND THAT A SIGNIFICANT GREEN

31:21INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENTS IN

31:22THE SIDEWALKS, INVESTMENTS IN

31:22THE LIGHTING ETC. UM, WE DID

31:25SOME SIMILAR WORK ON UH ON

31:27TREMONT STREET BUT NOT QUITE

31:28WITH THE SAME DEGREE OF CHANGES

31:30IN THE ACTUAL CURB THAT.

31:31WAS ROUGHLY EQUIVALENT LENGTH

31:33AROUND A MILE, A LITTLE BIT

31:34LESS THAN A MILE THAT WAS

31:35CLOSER TO 10 OR $11 MILLION,

31:37UH, OF.

31:38CAPITAL WORK.

31:39UH, ALONG THAT STRETCH PROJECTS

31:41LIKE THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE

31:42CAPITAL INTENSIVE AND A LITTLE

31:43BIT MORE UH UH, EXPENSIVE FOR

31:45US TO DO THINGS LIKE PUTTING

31:48CAST IN PLACE UH, ALONG STATE

31:50STREET OR PUTTING PRECAST

31:51CONCRETE ON WASHINGTON STREET

31:52OR ON CONGRESS STREET IS A

31:54LOWER COST WAY FOR US TO BE

31:55ABLE TO IMPLEMENT AND SOMETHING

31:56WHICH WE ARE VERY MUCH FOCUSED

31:58ON GOING FORWARD.

31:58IT BECOMES PART OF OUR ANNUAL

32:00RESURFACING.

32:01PROGRAM AS A CITY WE.

32:02HAVE BEEN DOING.

32:04IN THE LAST FEW YEARS UH,

32:05AROUND 40 MILES TO 50 MILES

32:07OF ANNUAL RESURFACING EACH YEAR

32:09WE ARE LOOKING AT HOW WE CAN

32:10INCORPORATE UPGRADES TO THE

32:11EXISTING BIKE NETWORK OR

32:12EXTENSION OF THE EXISTING BIKE

32:13NETWORK THROUGH THAT WORK.

32:15OKAY.

32:15>> AND THEN FOR FOR.

32:16UH FOR.

32:17TRUCKS YOU DO KNOW WHAT

32:19PERCENTAGE OF THE CITY'S TRUCKS

32:20ARE COMPLIANT WITH THE SIDE

32:22GUARD.

32:23UH, YOU KNOW.

32:25REQUIREMENTS I CAN GET BACK TO

32:26YOU ON UM, THE SORT OF THE

32:28CITY'S CENTRAL FLEET SORT

32:29OF LOOKS AT THE CITY'S.

32:29UH, THE.

32:31PORTION OF THE OVERALL TRIP WE

32:32CAN GET TO THE BREAKDOWN

32:33OF THAT CITYWIDE.

32:34OKAY.

32:34>> AND THEN WHAT'S THE

32:36FEASIBILITY OF HAVING LIKE

32:37MAKING SURE WITHIN THE CITY AN

32:4118 WHEEL TRUCK IF IT'S GOING TO

32:42BE GOING DOWN A ROAD THAT, YOU

32:45KNOW, BIKES COULD BE TRAVELING

32:46DOWN THAT IT'S GOING TO BE A

32:48PROTECTED BIKE LANE IS THAT CAN

32:50WE CAN THAT BE LIKE CAN WE WORK

32:52TOWARD THAT GOAL?

32:54UM I.

32:55DON'T KNOW WHAT ARE YOUR

32:56THOUGHTS?

32:56SO I.

32:57>> THINK TO.

32:57>> HAVE SOME OF WHAT YOU HAD

32:58RAISED BEFORE AND RIGHT NOW

32:59THAT THOSE PLACES WHERE THERE'S

33:00THE MOST VEHICULAR ACTIVITY

33:01AND.

33:02INCLUDING TRUCK ACTIVITY ARE

33:03PLACES WHERE WE WANT TO HAVE

33:04THE MOST ROBUST UM.

33:06BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE UM.

33:08SIDEWALKS, SEPARATE CYCLE

33:09TRACKS FOR EXAMPLE, UM, AS A

33:11SORT OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO

33:12PROVIDE THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT

33:14OF PROTECTION AND THAT IS

33:15SOMETHING WHICH WE ARE WHICH WE

33:17DO LOOK AT IN OUR PLANNING AND

33:19LOOK TO INCORPORATE IN OUR

33:20CAPITAL BUDGET.

33:21THERE ARE RESTRICTIONS ABOUT

33:22ARE THERE ARE UM.

33:25UH SOME LIMITS THE WAY IN WHICH

33:27THE CITY CAN LIMIT WHERE TRUCKS

33:28CAN GO IF THEY HAVE A

33:29DESTINATION ON THAT STREET FOR

33:31EXAMPLE A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.

33:32THIS IS ALSO WHY A LOT OF THE

33:33WORK THAT SORT OF MIA TOUCHED

33:35ON HOW WE THINK ABOUT HOW URBAN

33:37FREIGHT ACTUALLY GETS TO A

33:38FINAL DESTINATION IS SOMETHING

33:39THAT WE'RE VERY FOCUSED ON.

33:41DO YOU HAVE A MAP OF WHERE THE

33:43LIKELY LARGE TRUCK DESTINY

33:45WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE?

33:47I DON'T KNOW IF.

33:48WE'RE ACTIVELY.

33:49WORKING ON THAT.

33:50OKAY.

33:50>> AND COULD THAT BE MAKE THAT

33:52PUBLIC AND UH BECAUSE IT

33:54CERTAINLY I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD

33:55THEN BE LIKE OKAY, THESE ARE

33:56THE ROUTES WHERE THEY'RE GOING

33:57TO BE NOW WE KNOW WHERE TO

33:59ADVOCATE FOR.

34:00YOU KNOW, BETTER

34:01INFRASTRUCTURE.

34:02AND TO YOUR POINT ON.

34:03THE CAPITAL PLANNING IT IS

34:04THAT.

34:05A COMBINATION OF WHERE

34:08RIDERSHIP IS WHERE.

34:09THERE MAY BE.

34:10>> A HEAVY AMOUNT OF TRUCK

34:11TRUCK TRAFFIC WHERE THERE'S A

34:12BIT OF HIGH UH AMOUNT.

34:14>> OF.

34:14UH PAST CRASHES THAT WE ARE

34:15REALLY LOOKING TO FOCUS.

34:16>> A LOT OF OUR CAPITAL

34:17INVESTMENT.

34:18OKAY.

34:18CAN I.

34:18JUST ONE.

34:19QUICK FOLLOW UP.

34:20DO YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'RE.

34:22EXPECTED TO HAVE THAT

34:23INFORMATION?

34:23I MEAN.

34:25UH, NOT QUITE, BUT I'M HAPPY TO

34:27REPORT BACK WITH A MORE CLEAR

34:29TIMELINE.

34:29OKAY.

34:30>> THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

34:31>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

34:32UM, TO THE LEAD SPONSOR

34:33COUNCILOR WEBER.

34:34COUNCILOR PIPPEN, YOU HAVE THE

34:35FLOOR.

34:36THANK YOU.

34:37>> AND AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR

34:38THAT PRESENTATION.

34:39UM, IT'S VERY GOOD TO LEARN

34:40OF THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO,

34:42ESPECIALLY WITH CAPONE'S WORK.

34:44I NOT REALLY FAMILIAR WITH WITH

34:45IT.

34:45SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.

34:46UM, WHEN WE DESIGN BIKE PATHS

34:50AND ROUTES ACROSS THE CITY, DO

34:51WE PURPOSELY LOOK AT EXISTING

34:53INFRASTRUCTURE UM.

34:54AND TRY TO CONNECT THEM FOR

34:56EXAMPLE THE THE BEAUTIFUL NEW

34:58COMMONS HIGHWAY PROJECT.

34:59RIGHT.

35:00UH BUT IT HAS AN IT HAS AN END

35:02AND I KNOW THAT PEOPLE EITHER

35:03WANT TO CONTINUE GOING DOWN

35:05CUMMINS HIGHWAY TOWARDS THE

35:06ROSLYN AREA OR EVENTUALLY UP

35:07TOWARDS YOU KNOW, THE MATTAPAN

35:09SQUARE AREA OR YOU KNOW, THAT'S

35:11I'M JUST USING THAT AS AN

35:12EXAMPLE.

35:13HOW DO YOU USE THE EXISTING

35:15INFRASTRUCTURE TO SAY YOU KNOW

35:15WHAT, HOW DO WE CONTINUE THIS

35:17TO CONNECT TO THE REST OF.

35:18>> THE CITY?

35:19THAT'S A GREAT EXAMPLE.

35:20THIS IS.

35:20SO AT.

35:21ONE END OBVIOUSLY YOU HAVE SORT

35:23OF AFTER FAIRWAY YOU HAVE

35:24MATTAPAN SQUARE THAT IS PART

35:26OF WHAT UH IS BEING CONSIDERED

35:28AS PART OF THE MBTA AND CITY'S

35:30PLAN FOR APPROVAL.

35:30HOW HOW DO YOU ACTUALLY

35:31IMPROVE.

35:32CONNECTIONS TO THE RIVER

35:33GREENWAY, WHICH IS A.

35:34ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL CONNECTION

35:36THERE THAT SECTION BETWEEN

35:37WOODHAVEN AND AMERICAN LEGION

35:38HIGHWAY ESSENTIALLY THE SECTION

35:39AT THE.

35:40UH NORTHEAST NORTHWESTERN END

35:42OF OF CUMMINS HIGHWAY IS

35:44SIMILARLY A A GAP OR LINK THAT.

35:46WE WOULD.

35:47>> BE LOOKING TO ADDRESS AND

35:48THINK ABOUT HOW DO WE CONTINUE

35:49TO IMPROVE OR ENHANCE, UH,

35:51WORK.

35:51>> ALONG THE RECREATION

35:52HIGHWAY?

35:52IT'S A IT IS IT IS CLOSING.

35:54>> A LOT OF THOSE THOSE GAPS

35:56ADDRESSING KEY INTERSECTIONS

35:56THAT'S FUNDAMENTAL TO THE WORK

35:58THAT WE'RE WE'RE.

35:58FOCUSED ON.

35:59>> I APPRECIATE THAT AND IS

36:01MAYBE THIS IS MORE TOWARDS.

36:03DIRECTOR FAULDS IN REGARDS TO

36:04THE BLUE BIKE EXPANSION I KNOW

36:06THAT YOU KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS

36:08CONVERSATIONS OF THERE'S A

36:10GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT SAY OH

36:11THIS IS JUST A BIKE PATH

36:12TURNING.

36:12TOWARDS NOWHERE, YOU KNOW WHY

36:13ARE YOU BUILDING THIS HERE HOW

36:15THIS MAKES SENSE WHERE.

36:16>> YOU CHOOSE TO PUT BLUE BIKE

36:18STATIONS AND YOU SEE MORE

36:19DEMAND, ARE YOU ALSO KEEPING

36:21THAT IN MIND WITH THE

36:22INFRASTRUCTURE THAT MAY BE

36:23AVAILABLE.

36:24>> IN THAT AREA OR LIKE

36:26DEPENDING ON THAT, WHOEVER'S

36:27WORKING ON THE TEAM IF THERE IS

36:29AN EXISTING BIKE PATH BUT THERE

36:30ISN'T BLUE BIKE STATIONS OR

36:31VICE VERSA.

36:32WHEN DOES THAT COME INTO THE

36:33CONVERSATION?

36:34YEAH.

36:34>> IT CERTAINLY IS ONE OF THE

36:37CONSIDERATIONS UM.

36:38THAT WE USE WHEN WE'RE PLANNING

36:40THE BIKE UM BIKE SHARE NETWORK.

36:44UM WHEN WE WERE KIND OF HANDED

36:46THIS PROJECT FIGURE OUT HOW TO

36:47DISTRIBUTE 100 STATIONS ACROSS

36:49THE CITY.

36:50UM.

36:50>> WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH

36:51THE ANALYTICS TEAM AND TOOK

36:53INTO ACCOUNT A LOT OF DIFFERENT

36:54TYPES OF DATA, UM, THAT YOU

36:57KNOW, TO HELP US EVALUATE.

37:00WHERE STATIONS SHOULD GO AT

37:01THIS KIND OF A MACRO LEVEL AT

37:04THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE.

37:05AND THEN FROM THERE, YOU KNOW,

37:07WE HONED IN ON EACH

37:08NEIGHBORHOOD ONE AT A TIME AND

37:09LOOKED AT THINGS LIKE WHAT

37:11INFRASTRUCTURE EXISTS?

37:12WHERE DO PEOPLE WANT TO GO?

37:14WHERE ARE THE YOU KNOW, THE

37:15COMMON ORIGINS AND DESTINATIONS

37:18AND THEN LIKE HOW ARE THE

37:20STATIONS PERFORMING OR NOT IN

37:22PLACES WHERE WE DO ALREADY HAVE

37:23BIKE SHARE?

37:24UM, IT'S VERY MUCH OF A

37:26VIRTUOUS CIRCLE.

37:27UM, YOU KNOW AS WE BUILD UP

37:29MORE PEOPLE RIDING THEN LIKE

37:31THE UM NEED FOR BETTER

37:34INFRASTRUCTURE BECOMES.

37:35MORE APPARENT.

37:37UM, SO I WOULD SAY THAT WE ALSO

37:39HAVE DEFINITELY BEEN ABLE TO

37:41BUILD ON INFRASTRUCTURE

37:42PROJECTS THAT ARE HAPPENING TO

37:44BE ABLE TO MEET OUR EXPANSION

37:46NEEDS.

37:46SO CUMMINS HIGHWAY IS A GREAT

37:48EXAMPLE WHERE UM MY TEAM WORKED

37:50VERY CLOSELY WITH UM THE FOLKS

37:53IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN

37:54TEAM.

37:56UM TO.

37:56FIGURE OUT LOCATIONS ALONG

37:58CUMMINS THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE.

38:00TO, YOU KNOW.

38:00VERY NATURAL LOCATIONS TO ADD

38:02NEW BIKE SHARE AS WE WERE

38:04PUTTING IN THAT UM, THAT.

38:05PROJECT I APPRECIATE THAT AND I

38:07WANTED TO ASK YOU.

38:08TWO CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.

38:09YOU SAID.

38:10THAT WAS A 60% INCREASE IN BIKE

38:13AND BIKE RIDERSHIP IN THE CITY.

38:15WAS WAS THAT THE PERCENTAGE.

38:16THAT I HEARD OR AM I.

38:18SO THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT UM

38:20COUNTS AMONG OTHERS THAT UH

38:21THAT WE HAVE ONE IS SORT OF A

38:23BLUE BIKE UH RIDERSHIP WHICH IS

38:25SORT OF MORE OF A CONTINUOUS

38:26SET OF INFORMATION WHICH UM KIM

38:28CAN UH.

38:30UH CAN UH CLARIFY.

38:32BUT THAT IS SORT OF WHAT WAS IN

38:33THE GRAPH ON THIS IN THE LAST

38:35SLIDE.

38:35THE SECOND IS THE CITY DOES AND

38:37HAS BEEN DOING SINCE I BELIEVE

38:382016 SORT OF ESSENTIALLY AN

38:39ANNUAL POINT IN TIME.

38:41ALLOCATION BASED.

38:42ACCOUNT OR COUNTING.

38:43YOU CAN SEE THAT INFORMATION ON

38:44.

38:45>> THE CITY'S WEBSITE.

38:45UH.

38:46>> LOOKING.

38:46AT THE BIKE COUNTS, THERE'S

38:47ROUGHLY A 60% INCREASE THAT WE

38:49SORT OF DOCUMENTED IN IN

38:51RIDERSHIP UH, SINCE WE'VE BEEN

38:52DOING THIS BY COUNCIL.

38:54IS THERE A CORRELATION BETWEEN.

38:55THE EXPANSION OF THE STATIONS

38:58TO.

38:58RIDER TO INCREASED RIDERSHIP?

39:01IT'S IT'S NOT AS CLEAR OF.

39:03AND WE CERTAINLY SEE IT IN SOME

39:06NEIGHBORHOODS IN OTHERS WE KNOW

39:07THAT THE THE SOFT BARRIERS.

39:10ARE VERY REAL BARRIERS.

39:12SOME OF THEM ARE LESS SOFT AND

39:14THEY'RE MORE ABOUT LIKE WE JUST

39:16DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF THE

39:18INFRASTRUCTURE TO REALLY

39:19PROVIDE THOSE ORIGINS

39:20OF DESTINATIONS WHERE PEOPLE

39:21WANT TO GO.

39:22UM, BUT YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT

39:25OF UM, WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO

39:27TO GET OVER THE.

39:29BARRIERS FOR.

39:29>> PEOPLE, HELP THEM REALIZE

39:30THAT THE SYSTEM IS PUBLIC

39:33TRANSPORTATION, THAT IT'S

39:34AFFORDABLE, THAT IT'S EASY TO

39:35USE.

39:36UM, AND AND ALL OF THAT TAKES A

39:38LOT OF KIND OF COMMUNITY BASED

39:40OUTREACH.

39:41THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT

39:42REALLY MOVE THE NEEDLE.

39:42UM, SO WE HAVE WE HAVE A

39:45RELATIVELY NEW CONTRACT WITH

39:46OUR BIKE SHARE OPERATOR AND ONE

39:48OF THE THINGS THAT I PUSHED FOR

39:50VERY HARD WAS TO SAY IN SOME

39:53UM, A HANDFUL OF NEIGHBORHOODS

39:55IN BOSTON.

39:55WHERE BIKE SHARE.

39:57RIDERSHIP IS SORT

40:00OF DISPROPORTIONATELY LOW.

40:01UM, THE NUMBER OF MEMBERS THAT

40:02ARE TAKING TRIPS IN THOSE

40:03NEIGHBORHOODS IS IS LOW.

40:05UM, OUR OPERATOR NEEDS TO DO

40:07PUT IN SORT OF EXTRA EFFORT AND

40:09WE NEED TO SEE ACTUAL UM,

40:12CHANGES IN THE PERCENTAGE

40:13OF TRIPS FROM STATIONS THAT ARE

40:15TAKEN BY MEMBERS.

40:16UM, SOME MEMBERS YOU KNOW, ARE

40:18PEOPLE WHO ARE LIKELY LIVING OR

40:19WORKING IN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS

40:21.

40:21UM, BUT WE ALSO HAVE DONE A LOT

40:23OF WORK IN THE PAST AND YOU

40:24KNOW.

40:25HAVING COMMUNITY AMBASSADORS UM

40:27.

40:27WE'VE PROVIDED.

40:29MICRO GRANTS TO COMMUNITY BASED

40:32ORGANIZATIONS.

40:32UM, SO PEOPLE WHO ARE FROM THE

40:34NEIGHBORHOOD ARE UM, YOU KNOW,

40:37OUT AT THE FARMER'S MARKET, UM

40:38,YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THOSE

40:39KINDS OF THINGS.

40:40SHARING UM, THE OPPORTUNITIES

40:43FOR JOINING BIKE SHARE.

40:44THANK YOU.

40:45THAT'S MY TIME.

40:47THANK YOU.

40:48UM, I JUST HAVE A COUPLE

40:49OF QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL GO

40:51TO COUNCILORS CULPEPER NEXT.

40:52UM, SO.

40:54,UM UH, SO THERE ARE PHASE.

40:56THREE OF THE FENWAY MULTI USE

40:58PATH.

40:58UM IT'S THERE'S ABOUT $2.5

41:01MILLION IN ESCROW FROM A

41:02DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.

41:03IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT I

41:05ACTUALLY SAW FROM SENATOR

41:07BROWN'S BURGER AND WE SPOKE

41:08ABOUT THIS ON UM UH WE BOTH

41:10WENT TO THE RIDE FOR OUR LIFE

41:13UM AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE

41:15THAT THE CITY IS TRYING TO COME

41:16TO A CONCLUSION ON THIS.

41:17I FEEL LIKE THERE'S, UH, TALKS

41:19ABOUT USING MTA LAND OR USING

41:22CITY LAND.

41:22CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE WE ARE

41:24WITH THE MULTI USE PATH?

41:25UH, FENWAY MULTI-USE PATH IN

41:27THE PHASE THREE IN PARTICULAR

41:28IS A A GREAT EXAMPLE OF A.

41:30>> LINK.

41:31WE NEED TO CLOSE UH IT CONNECTS

41:32.

41:34UH A WONDERFUL PATH ALONG THE

41:35MUDDY RIVER UH WITH A BIKE PATH

41:37THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO PUT IN

41:38PLACE THAT ESSENTIALLY RUNS UH

41:39NORTH OF DAVID ORTIZ DRIVE

41:40FROM.

41:41UM FROM THE FENWAY TO STOP.

41:43UM, THERE IS A VERY SHORT UM,

41:46STRETCH UH AND WE ARE WORKING

41:47WITH THE MBTA TO THINK THROUGH

41:49WHAT DESIGN OPTIONS ARE UM,

41:51THERE IS UH IT'S A COMBINATION

41:53OF MBTA LAND AND ADJACENT UM,

41:54PARKS DEPARTMENT UM UH LAND AND

41:57WE WERE WORKING WITH THE SET

41:58OF PARTNERS.

41:58YES.

41:59>> PLEASE LOOP AND ME AND

42:00SENATOR BROWNSBURG ARE WE BOTH

42:01THINK THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT

42:02AND WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK ON IT

42:04TOGETHER.

42:04SO, UM, I WANT TO FLAG UM

42:08OBVIOUSLY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A

42:10REDESIGN OF BOYLSTON STREET.

42:11IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE GET

42:13TO 25% DESIGN.

42:14UM, DON'T NEED TO GET INTO THE

42:15DETAILS HERE.

42:16I WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST A

42:17MEETING, UH, WITH YOUR OFFICE

42:19TO TALK ABOUT, UH, THOSE

42:20CHANGES.

42:21I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT

42:22THAT WE, UH, DON'T LOSE THAT

42:24THOSE RESOURCES, UM, ALSO

42:27WANTED TO GET INTO A

42:30CONVERSATION ABOUT PREVIOUSLY

42:32APPROVED BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE

42:34THAT IS NOT BEING DELIVERED ON,

42:37UM, EVEN OUTSIDE OF MY DISTRICT

42:39.

42:40IN WHAT CASES DOES THE CITY

42:42DECIDE TO NOT MOVE FORWARD WITH

42:43SOMETHING THAT IS PART OF UH,

42:46DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IS PART

42:48OF UM PECK REVIEW LIKE WHEN

42:50DOES THAT HAPPEN?

42:51WHY DOES THAT HAPPEN?

42:52WHY IS THAT HAPPENING?

42:55LIKE WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT

42:57YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT WHEN THAT

42:58WHEN THOSE CONVERSATIONS TAKE

43:00PLACE.

43:00SURE.

43:01>> UM SO THERE'S BEEN UM ONE

43:03RECENT EXAMPLE THAT I CAN THINK

43:05OF UH AND IT WAS REALLY LOOKING

43:06AT.

43:08UM UH.

43:09WITH A VERY CRITICAL BIKE LINK.

43:10BETWEEN UM A.

43:12MAJOR ROAD AND A MAJOR PARK UM,

43:14AND LOOKING AT A VERY SPECIFIC

43:16DESIGN.

43:16IN ABOUT A.

43:1750 FOOT STRETCH.

43:18AND SO UH, WE ARE CONTINUE TO

43:19WORK ON WHAT THE RIGHT DESIGN

43:20IS IN THAT VERY SHORT STRETCH.

43:22>> BUT THAT LINK THAT OVERALL.

43:23CONNECTION IS ONE THAT WE

43:24STILL, UH, ANTICIPATE

43:26DELIVERING.

43:26WE WANT TO FIGURE OUT THE RIGHT

43:27WAY TO DELIVER.

43:28THAT FULL CONNECTION.

43:29I GUESS LIKE FOR A LOT OF US

43:31THAT UM, YOU KNOW, WEIGH IN ON

43:33THESE PROCESSES AT DIFFERENT

43:34POINTS ESPECIALLY FOR PEOPLE

43:35THAT ARE HERE THAT YOU KNOW,

43:36BIKE EVERYWHERE, THEY DON'T

43:38KNOW THOSE CONVERSATIONS ARE

43:39GOING ON AND THEN SO SO WHEN

43:41SOMETHING GETS APPROVED AND

43:43THEN IT'S NOT GOING TO BE

43:44DELIVERED ON UM I JUST THINK

43:46THAT WE ONLY KIND OF FOCUS ON

43:48COMMUNITY PROCESS WHEN WE'RE

43:50LISTENING TO A CERTAIN VOICE

43:51AND NOT UH, SORT OF MORE YES

43:55VOICE.

43:55AND I JUST THINK THAT WE REALLY

43:56NEED TO THINK ABOUT THAT.

43:58UM, LIKE THE PEOPLE THAT RIDE

44:00ON OUR STREETS ARE.

44:01YOU ARE CRITICAL TO THAT

44:04CONVERSATION.

44:04AND SO IT JUST FEELS LIKE WHEN

44:06WE TALK ABOUT COMMUNITY VOICE

44:07WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A VERY

44:09SPECIFIC SET OF INDIVIDUALS.

44:10AND I THINK AS A CITY WE NEED

44:11TO HEAR FROM EVERYONE

44:12ESPECIALLY FOLKS THAT TRAVEL

44:14THROUGH AN AREA.

44:15UM, SO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE

44:19DARTMOUTH STREET BIKE LANE.

44:21I KNOW THERE WERE SOME ISSUES

44:22WITH SORT OF DELIVERY IS THAT

44:23GOING TO HAPPEN?

44:24YOU KNOW WE'RE THAT KIND

44:25OF LIKE WHAT'S NEXT STEPS ON

44:26DARTMOUTH STREET?

44:27SURE.

44:28>> UM SO OUR EXPECTATIONS IN

44:302027 WILL BE AS UH EXTEND.

44:32>> THE TWO WAY.

44:32BIKE PATH WHICH CURRENTLY GOES

44:33AS YOU KNOW, FROM BACK STREET

44:35TO UH TO COME OUT OF UH FURTHER

44:36SOUTH, UM TOWARDS THE BOSTON

44:37PUBLIC LIBRARY.

44:38WE'RE STILL WORKING THE DESIGNS

44:39AND TO YOUR EARLIER POINT I'M

44:41VERY HAPPY TO BOTH MEET WITH

44:42YOU IN THE COMMUNITY.

44:43>> BUT YES, I.

44:44>> COULD LOOK LIKE YEAH, WELL.

44:44JUST YOU KNOW, I WORKED REALLY

44:46HARD.

44:46I ACTUALLY GOT A SUPPORT LETTER

44:48FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD

44:48ASSOCIATION OF THE BACK BAY ON

44:50BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE.

44:51AND SO I JUST THINK THAT

44:52SOMETIMES WE WORK ON THINGS WE

44:54WORK REALLY HARD ON THEM AND

44:55THEN THEY DON'T GET DELIVERED

44:56ON IN THE TIMELINE THAT WE'RE

44:57HOPING FOR.

44:58I ON THAT PARTICULAR ONE IT'S A

45:01LITTLE IT'S A LITTLE HEAD

45:02SCRATCHING BUT I UNDERSTAND

45:04THAT THERE WAS SOME ISSUES WITH

45:06SOME PAINT AND THERE'S THERE'S

45:07NUMEROUS THINGS AND AGAIN I'M

45:10NOT IN THE CONSTRUCTION WORLD

45:11THE WAY THAT YOU KNOW EVERYONE

45:13ELSE'S.

45:13BUT I JUST THINK WHEN I FIGHT

45:16FOR THINGS AND I PUT MY NAME ON

45:18THE LINE FOR THINGS AND I PUT

45:20MY POLITICAL CAREER ON THE LINE

45:21FOR BIKE LANES AND FOR SAFETY

45:22INFRASTRUCTURE I JUST WANTED TO

45:23BE DELIVERED ON BECAUSE WE'RE

45:24ALL WORKING HARD TO GET TO.

45:25YES.

45:27UM AND I, I THAT ONE IS THE

45:29SUPPORTED UM THAT IS SUPPORTED

45:32INFRASTRUCTURE BY BOTH THE

45:33NEIGHBORHOOD AND THE PEOPLE WHO

45:34RIDE ON THAT STREET.

45:35OKAY.

45:36WE'LL GO RIGHT INTO BLOSSOM

45:37STREET.

45:38UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S $4.5

45:40MILLION.

45:40THE FORMER CHAIR OF THIS

45:41COMMITTEE, FRANK BAKER HELPED

45:43ME SUSPEND AND PASS THOSE

45:45RESOURCES.

45:46UM, IT'S GOING TO COST WAY MORE

45:47THAN THAT OBVIOUSLY WITH A FULL

45:49RECONSTRUCTION THAT IS A VERY

45:51IMPORTANT, UM, CONNECTION POINT

45:52TO THE ESPLANADE.

45:53CAN YOU JUST, UH, GIVE ME AN

45:55UPDATE AND THEN I JUST LIKE TO

45:56SAY THAT I WOULD LOVE, UH,

45:59THERE'S A GUY WHO'S BEEN

46:00HELPING US RESURFACE THE

46:01THOROUGH PATH DAN MURPHY.

46:03I WOULD LOVE FOR HIM TO THE

46:05PROJECT MANAGER.

46:06HE HAS WORKED SO WELL WITH THE

46:07WESTON COMMUNITY.

46:08UM, I DON'T WANT TO.

46:09WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE

46:10GIVING HIM AN AWARD.

46:11UM, SO WE'RE JUST REALLY

46:13EXCITED AND THRILLED WITH THE

46:14WAY THAT HE'S HANDLED THE

46:15RESURFACING OF THE THOROUGH

46:16PATH.

46:16AND I JUST WOULD LIKE TO

46:18ADVOCATE I THINK HE WOULD BE A

46:19GREAT PROJECT MANAGER.

46:19THE WESTON COMMUNITY LOVES HIM.

46:21THAT IS.

46:22WELL OUR GUYS DONE A GREAT JOB

46:23WITH THAT THROUGH A PATH AS YOU

46:24AS YOU KNOW AND AS YOU SAID UM

46:26I WE THE CHALLENGE WE HAVE ON

46:27BOSTON STREET IS EXACTLY WHAT

46:28YOU.

46:28IDENTIFIED THE DISCREPANCY.

46:29BETWEEN WHAT THE BIDS CAME IN

46:31AT OR WHAT.

46:32WE UH.

46:32THE FULL ESTIMATED COST AND THE

46:34FUNDING.

46:34>> WE HAVE AVAILABLE.

46:35THIS IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO

46:36WORK THROUGH AS WE BUILD.

46:37OUR OUR.

46:37>> CAPITAL PLAN FOR.

46:38>> NEXT YEAR.

46:38AND IT IS AN AREA WHERE UM IT

46:41ABSOLUTELY IT'S A LOT

46:42OF BUSSES.

46:42IT'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC.

46:44UM IT'S EXACTLY THE CONCERNS

46:45THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE

46:46EXIST ON THAT STREET AND THAT

46:48STRETCH.

46:49SO I DON'T WANT TO GO OVER

46:50BECAUSE I'M THE CHAIR AND I

46:52KNOW MY COLLEAGUES HAVE BEEN

46:53PATIENTLY WAITING SO WE'LL GO

46:54TO, UM, COUNCILOR COLE PEPPER,

46:55YOU ARE NEXT.

46:56THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

46:57UH, BECAUSE I WANT TO TALK A

46:59LITTLE BIT ABOUT.

47:00AND YOU MENTIONED AND MATTAPAN

47:01.

47:03TO MARYLAND HIGHWAY AND THAT'S

47:05PART OF ROUTE 28, ISN'T THAT

47:07THAT'S A STATE HIGHWAY.

47:11UH, SO WE MANAGE.

47:13ALL WE UNDERSTAND.

47:15>> BUT.

47:15IT'S A STATE HIGHWAY ROUTE 28.

47:18UM, THEY.

47:18MAY HAVE A DESIGNATION THAT WE

47:19ON THE 10TH.

47:20OKAY.

47:20AND IS THAT UH DOES ROUTE 28

47:24COME UNDER ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE

47:27TRAFFIC RULES AND REGULATIONS?

47:29I DON'T KNOW, BUT I'M.

47:30HAPPY TO BE BACK TO YOU ON

47:31THAT.

47:31SPECIFIC UH, WITH REGARD TO UH

47:36,THE RESTRICTIONS, UH, WHAT

47:38SIZE OR THE LENGTH AND THE

47:41DIFFERENT RESTRICTION FOR

47:42TRUCKS TRAVELING ON CERTAIN

47:45STREETS AND CERTAIN ROAD

47:46SURFACES.

47:48HAPPY WITH BACK TO ALL THE

47:50SPECIFICS OF OKAY, WHETHER THAT

47:51.

47:51ROAD IT FALLS UNDER THOSE

47:52RESTRICTIONS.

47:53BECAUSE I WANTED TO TALK A

47:54LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT BUT HOW

47:56IT'S TRACKED YOU'RE FAMILIAR

47:58WITH ARTICLE SEVEN ON TWO.

48:00UH I AM NOT.

48:01OKAY.

48:02OKAY.

48:04UM WELL LET'S PLAN TO TALK

48:06ABOUT THAT AT SOME LATER POINT.

48:08IT'S ARTICLE SEVEN OF THE RULES

48:09AND REGULATIONS IT HAS TO DO

48:12WITH THE ENFORCEMENT OF.

48:13TRUCK RESTRICTIONS.

48:14I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THAT

48:17ESPECIALLY WITH REGARD TO THAT

48:18AREA FROM MATTAPAN SQUARE EVEN

48:21TO GROVE HALL AND.

48:23WHAT RESTRICTIONS ARE THERE

48:25WITH REGARD TO TRUCKS BECAUSE

48:27FROM WHEN I SEE TRUCKS OF ALL

48:30SIZES TRAVEL DOWN BLUE HILL

48:33AVENUE THROUGH GROVE HALL, SOME

48:35TAKE A LEFT ONE SEE STREET I

48:37THINK 28 GOES LEFT ON SILVER

48:40STREET AND FROM WHAT I SEE

48:43THERE WOULD BE AND I DON'T KNOW

48:45THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING YOU ABOUT

48:47THE RESTRICTIONS BECAUSE IT

48:48SAYS IT'S IT'S MADNESS.

48:51IT'S REALLY MADNESS SOMETIMES.

48:54UH AND SO WITH REGARD TO STRESS

48:56LEVELS I SAW SOME OF THE

48:57INFORMATION IN HERE WITH REGARD

48:59TO STRESS LEVELS AND SAN JOSE,

49:02CAN YOU TALK ABOUT WHETHER BLUE

49:04LAB UM WHAT STRESS LEVEL YOU

49:08CONSIDER BLUE HILL LAB AT?

49:09SURE FROM A.

49:10CYCLING PERSPECTIVE, YES.

49:12SO THIS IS.

49:13ONE OF THE REASONS WHY AS.

49:15YOU KNOW, ONE OF.

49:16>> THE KEY FEATURES OF WHAT

49:17WE'RE DISCUSSING FOR POLITICAL

49:19IS A UH.

49:20TWO WAY SIDEWALK GRADE BIKE

49:23PATH.

49:24IS IT WITH LET'S START TALKING

49:25ABOUT STRESS LEVELS OF STRESS

49:28WHETHER IT'S STRESS LEVEL ONE

49:30STRESS LEVEL TWO STRESS LEVEL

49:32THREE IS STRESS LEVEL FOUR

49:34BECAUSE THAT WOULD THEN DICTATE

49:38WHAT HAPPENS IN THE FUTURE WITH

49:39WHO LAB BASED ON THE STRESS

49:42LEVELS.

49:43SO MY QUESTION IS IS GOOGLE LAB

49:45A STRESS LEVEL ONE STRESS LEVEL

49:48TWO STRESS LEVEL THREE IS

49:49STRESS LEVEL FOUR.

49:51HAPPY TO BE.

49:52>> BACK TO ON THE SPECIFICS

49:53OF UH.

49:54FOR BLUE HILL HAVE AND THAT

49:55SPECIFIC.

49:56QUESTION NO MATTER WHAT.

49:57THOUGH IT.

49:57>> IS.

49:58A PLACE WE STRONGLY THINK.

49:58>> UH IS A GOOD.

50:00>> PLACE TO.

50:00BE INVESTING IN.

50:01ADDITIONAL UH, BIKE

50:02INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EVERYBODY

50:03WHO WOULD LIKE TO USE IT AS

50:05WELL AS EVERYBODY WHO'S USING

50:05IT TODAY.

50:06WELL I KNOW.

50:06WELL, LET ME JUST SAY THIS, UH,

50:08WITH REGARD TO BLUE HILL AVENUE

50:11AND HOW DANGEROUS IT IS, UH,

50:14YOU KNOW, THIS SUMMER I WAS

50:15GOING TO TAKE BIKE RIDING UP,

50:18UH, I REALLY LOOK CLOSELY AT

50:21BLUE HILL LAB AND HOW DANGEROUS

50:23THE LAB IS.

50:25I DECIDED NOT TO DO IT.

50:27IT'S JUST TOO DANGEROUS TO RIDE

50:30A BIKE DOWN THE LINE FROM

50:31MATTAPAN SQUARE TO GROW FALLS.

50:33UH, HAVE YOU HAVE YOU SEEN THAT

50:35HAPPEN?

50:36I MEAN, THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T

50:37SEE ANYONE WHO WILL RIDE BIKES

50:38IS TOO DANGEROUS.

50:40I MEAN, IT'S REALLY DANGEROUS

50:41AND SO I JUST WANT TO MOVE TO

50:43ANOTHER AREA.

50:45UH, PUT SOME REAL QUICK UH,

50:49WITH REGARD TO THE TRUCKS AND

50:52HOW.

50:55THE TRUCK GUARDS AND BOSTON

50:59ADOPTED THE TRUCK GUARDS IN

51:002014.

51:01UH, HOW IS THAT MANAGE OR HOW

51:03IS THAT, UH, TRACK OR HOW IS

51:06THAT, UH, EITHER RESTRICTED.

51:09>> OR.

51:09NOT RESTRICTED?

51:10HOW DO YOU KNOW WHETHER THERE'S

51:12A CERTAIN LEVEL OF COMPLIANCE

51:14WITH THAT.

51:152014 UH, SAFEGUARD ORDINANCE?

51:17SURE.

51:18>> UM, SO THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT

51:19GROUPS THAT ESSENTIALLY ARE UH.

51:22UH ARE COVERED BY THAT

51:24PARTICULAR ORDINANCE.

51:25ONE IS CITY VEHICLES.

51:26UM, SO THERE WE HAVE THE

51:27OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO

51:28MANAGE THAT THROUGH OUR OWN

51:29PROCUREMENT.

51:30THE OTHER CATEGORY ARE OUR UH

51:32CONTRACTED VEHICLES OR VEHICLES

51:34BY CONTRACTORS, UH, WHO ARE

51:35WORKING FOR THE CITY OF BOSTON

51:37AND THE OVERSIGHT OF THAT

51:38OF THE ACTUAL SORT

51:39OF ENFORCEMENT SIDE IS THROUGH

51:40THE CITY'S INSPECTIONAL

51:41SERVICES DIVISION.

51:42>> AND THE.

51:43DEPARTMENT AND THEIR WEIGHTS

51:43AND MEASURES.

51:44SO SO IS THE ACTUALLY BEFORE A

51:48CONTRACT IS SIGNED AGREED TO

51:50THEIR ACTS THAT THEY ACTUALLY

51:52INSPECT WHETHER THE TRUCKS FOR

51:54THAT COMPANY IS IN COMPLIANCE

51:56WITH THE 24 2014 REGULATION.

51:59SO I CAN UH HAVE THE FOLKS.

52:01>> FOR MY IS.

52:01TO BE ABLE TO GET YOU THROUGH

52:02THEIR SPECIFIC PROCESS BUT

52:03IT'S.

52:04>> THAT DIVISION WITH NIST.

52:04THAT UH, HANDLES THE UH, SORT

52:07OF.

52:07OVERSIGHT OR ENFORCEMENT.

52:08OF THE SIDECAR.

52:09ORDINANCE CAN CAN YOU PROVIDE

52:12THOSE ANSWERS THROUGH THE CHAIR

52:13?

52:14AND FINALLY, UH, WITH REGARD TO

52:18COMPANIES THAT AREN'T UNDER.

52:19CONTRACT WITH THE CITY OR IT'S

52:22NOT A CITY VEHICLE, WHAT A

52:24THOUGHT IS DOES THE CITY HAVE

52:26TO REQUIRE SIMILAR SAFETY

52:28EQUIPMENT ON PRIVATE.

52:30COMMERCIAL VEHICLES THAT

52:31OPERATE WITHIN THE CITY?

52:33SO ONE OF THE.

52:33>> THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING IT'S

52:34A GREAT QUESTION WHAT ARE THE

52:35THINGS WHICH WE'RE DOING AS

52:36PART OF OUR VISION ZERO UPDATE

52:37IS LOOKING TO EXPLORE EXACTLY

52:38THAT QUESTION.

52:39UH, IT IS CLEAR THAT WHEN WE

52:41HAVE UM THE.

52:43PURCHASING POWER EITHER.

52:44>> THROUGH A CONTRACT UM, OR.

52:45THROUGH OUR OWN PROCUREMENT

52:46THAT THERE'S.

52:47A UH SORT OF A DIRECT ABILITY

52:49TO ENSURE UM OR REQUIRE UH, IT

52:52IS WE.

52:52>> ARE LOOKING AT SORT OF WHAT

52:53THE OTHER MECHANISMS.

52:54>> WE MAY BE ABLE TO HAVE AT

52:55EXACTLY.

52:55YOUR POINT.

52:56>> SO IT IS YOUR OPINION THAT

52:57WE NEED EITHER STATE REGULATION

52:59OR WE NEED TO.

53:00>> DO SOMETHING.

53:01WITH ORDINANCES IN THE CITY IN

53:03ORDER TO BRING THE PRIVATE

53:05COMMERCIAL VEHICLES THAT

53:07OPERATE WITHIN THE CITY IN

53:09COMPLIANCE.

53:09SO PART OF THE RESEARCH WE'RE

53:10DOING RIGHT NOW.

53:11>> IS EXACTLY TO ANSWER THAT

53:12QUESTION AND.

53:12>> LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING

53:13WITH.

53:13>> THIS BODY.

53:14AS WELL AS OUR PARTNERS IN THE

53:15STATE.

53:15THANK YOU CHRIS.

53:15BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH YOU ON

53:16IT.

53:17THANK YOU.

53:18THANKS.

53:18>> COUNCILOR CULPEPPER,

53:20COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU HAVE THE

53:21FLOOR.

53:23OH I'M SORRY.

53:24YEAH, SORRY.

53:25>> GO AHEAD, COUNCILOR FRIEDEN.

53:27THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

53:28AND THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

53:30THIS AFTERNOON.

53:31UM, I WANT TO THANK

53:33COUNCILOR PEPEN AND

53:34COUNCILOR WEBER FOR INCLUDING

53:35ME AS A THIRD.

53:36AND I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL

53:38THE ADVOCATES WHO ARE HERE IN

53:39PERSON AND WHO ARE WATCHING AND

53:40FROM WHOM.

53:41UM.

53:43>> THE THE DATA FROM THE BIKE

53:45LANE INITIATIVE IS CLEAR, UM,

53:47THAT ARE EXISTING LIENS REDUCE

53:49CRASHES AND MAKE OUR STREETS

53:51SAFER FOR ALL ROAD USERS AND I

53:55I EMPHASIZE ALL BECAUSE

53:56SOMETIMES WE FOCUS ON JUST ONE

53:59SUBSECTION OF IT AND IMPROVE

54:01SAFETY FOR EVERYONE.

54:03UM THE 30 DAY REVIEW MEMO

54:04ISSUED BY THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

54:05LAST APRIL RECOMMENDED A

54:07COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR BIKE

54:08LANE INFRASTRUCTURE.

54:11AND SINCE THAT TIME NEITHER THE

54:12COUNCIL OR THE PUBLIC HAVE BEEN

54:14PROVIDED WITH ANY SUBSTANTIVE

54:15UPDATE ON UM YOU KNOW, WHAT IS

54:18THE CLEAR PLAN?

54:20UM, I KNOW WE'RE IN UNCERTAIN

54:22ECONOMIC TIMES BUT THIS IS A

54:24HUGE LONG TERM PROJECT FROM WAY

54:27BACK MANY NEWS ADMINISTRATION.

54:30SO HAVING A CITYWIDE BICYCLE

54:32PLAN WILL HELP US BETTER

54:33UNDERSTAND HOW PROJECTS SHOULD

54:35BE PRIORITIZED AND WHAT

54:36RESOURCES ARE NEEDED TO PLAN,

54:38DESIGN AND COMPLETE THE

54:39NETWORK.

54:39I THINK IN ALLSTON, BRIGHTON WE

54:41SUFFERED A BODY BLOW WHEN WE

54:43LOST THE RECONNECTING

54:45COMMUNITIES FUNDING THAT WOULD

54:46HAVE HELPED TO SOLVE IN SOME

54:48WAY.

54:49BUT UM, JUST THINK OF HOW DOES

54:51THE ADMINISTRATION PRIORITIZE

54:53WHICH PRIORITIES RECEIVE

54:54PROTECTED BIKE LANE

54:55INFRASTRUCTURE AND AND FIRST

54:57AND HOW DO THEY HOW DO YOU

54:59PRIORITIZE THEM?

55:00SURE.

55:01>> UM IT IS A GREAT QUESTION.

55:03SO I REALLY WE ARE LOOKING AT

55:05UH AS WE DISCUSSED PLACES THAT

55:07ARE PART OF THE OVERALL NETWORK

55:10PLAN ITSELF.

55:10UM, PARTS WHERE WE ARE UH

55:12EITHER MISSING LINKS OR UH

55:14PLACES WHERE THERE IS EXISTING

55:16HIGH RIDERSHIP, UH, IN THE AREA

55:17AND THEN WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO

55:18MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE UH,

55:19ENHANCING THE UH OF THE BIKE

55:22INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLACES THAT

55:24ARE PART OF OUR HIGH INJURY

55:25NETWORK.

55:25UM, THERE ARE ABOUT 7%

55:26OF BOSTON'S ROADWAYS THAT HAVE

55:27A DISPROPORTIONATE AMOUNT OF UH

55:30OF UH, CRASHES ON THEM WHETHER

55:32IT'S FOR CYCLISTS, FOR

55:33PEDESTRIANS, UH, OR PEOPLE WHO

55:34ARE DRIVING CARS.

55:35UM, LOOKING AT THE PARTS OF THE

55:37HIGH INJURY NETWORK UH,

55:38SPECIFIC TO CYCLISTS OR PLACES

55:40WE ARE MOST LOOKING TO, UH,

55:42INVEST IN A HIGHER LEVEL OF UH

55:44OF BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE.

55:46SO REGULAR REPORTING IS

55:47ESSENTIAL TO KEEPING THE CITY

55:50ACCOUNTABLE TO THE GOALS THAT

55:51THEY SET.

55:51UM, SO ONE OF THE REASONS WHY

55:53WE'RE CLOSE I CAN'T

55:55CO-SPONSORED THE ORDINANCE WITH

55:56COUNCILOR PEPEN WAS TO TO

55:58REQUIRE REPORTING ON ON STREET

56:00PROJECTS.

56:01SO WHY DO WE NOT HAVE A REGULAR

56:03REPORTING SYSTEM JUST TO KEEP

56:05US UP TO SPEED?

56:06I THINK IT'S LIKE FOCUSES

56:07EVERYBODY'S ATTENTION.

56:08UM.

56:10SO AND WE'VE BEEN HAVING SOME

56:11OF THAT CONVERSATION I KNOW

56:12THAT THIS IS UH ALSO SORT OF UH

56:14BOTH THIS AND AN UPCOMING

56:15HEARING.

56:16I THINK THERE'S A GREAT

56:17OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT AS

56:18PART OF OUR ANNUAL UH, CAPITAL

56:20PLANNING AND CAPITAL REPORT TO

56:21BE CLEAR ABOUT, UM, WHAT WE

56:23HAVE DONE WHERE WE PLAN TO

56:25INVEST THE TIMELINE TO INVEST

56:26IT ON AND SORT OF LOOK FORWARD

56:27TO WORKING THROUGH THAT WITH

56:28THE CITY COUNCIL.

56:30UM, ARE THERE NEIGHBORHOODS

56:33THAT ARE CURRENTLY UNDERSERVED

56:34BY THE BIKE NETWORK AND AND

56:35WHAT PLAN IS THERE TO ADDRESS

56:38THOSE?

56:38SURE.

56:39>> UM, SO I THINK THERE'S A LOT

56:41OF OPPORTUNITY ACROSS OUR CITY

56:43TO BE ABLE TO ENHANCE THE BIKE

56:44NETWORK OVERALL.

56:45SOME OF THOSE ARE ABOUT SMALL

56:47PROJECTS.

56:47THE FENWAY PARK GEOGRAPHICALLY

56:49MAY BE SMALL BUT AS A KEY

56:51PRIORITY FOR UM FOR OUR CITY.

56:52SOME OF THOSE MAY BE ABOUT UH,

56:54VERY LONGER STRETCHES

56:56OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR

56:57TRANSFORMATION.

56:58UM, AS COUNCILOR CULPEPPER

56:59REFERENCED.

57:00SO I KNOW WE'VE TALKED SOMEWHAT

57:01ABOUT LINCOLN STREET UM, AND

57:03THAT THAT WILL BE IN

57:06PARTNERSHIP OR DICTATED WITH

57:07MASSDOT AND AND EVERSOURCE AND

57:10OURSELVES.

57:12UM UNDER OTHER AND WE SEE GREAT

57:14IMPROVEMENT LEGAL BIRMINGHAM

57:15AND DC EARLIER BIRMINGHAM

57:17PARKWAY AS AS THAN A ROAD DIET

57:19AND THEN DEDICATED A NEW

57:22PROTECTED BIKE LANE ALONG

57:23THERE.

57:24UM IN ALLSTON BRIGHTON YOU KNOW

57:27THOSE THOSE MISSING SPACES LIKE

57:29GETTING TO THE THE THE PATH THE

57:32RIVER PATH THAT CONNECTS DOWN

57:34TO THE POLE.

57:36WHITE LIGHT PATH IT'S

57:40TREACHEROUS IS ABSOLUTELY LIFE

57:43THREATENING TO GET DOWN BROOK

57:45STREET OR PARSON STREET TO GET

57:46OVER TO THE PATH AND GET IN.

57:48IS THERE ANY ANY THOUGHT BEING

57:50GIVEN TO HOW TO EXPEDITE, UH,

57:53SAFER CONNECTIONS DOWN TO THE

57:54RIVER?

57:54SURE.

57:55>> UM, SO I THINK IT'S OUR WAY

57:57OUT OF I THINK THE THREE VERY,

57:59UM, IMPORTANT TIMELINES AS

58:01WE'RE WORKING ON OUR

58:02COLLABORATION WITH OUR PARTNERS

58:03AT DCR UM, AND UH, AT MASSDOT

58:06AS WELL AS WITH THE UM WITH

58:08EVERSOURCE.

58:08UM, THERE ARE SOME THINGS WHICH

58:09THE CITY CAN DO AS PART OF ITS

58:11ANNUAL RESURFACING PROGRAM OR

58:12PART OF OUR MAINTENANCE.

58:13AS YOU KNOW, THERE'S BEEN SOME

58:14RECENT WORK, UM, TO RESTORE,

58:16UH, FLEX BUS ALONG WESTERN

58:17HALF.

58:17THERE'S ALSO.

58:18>> SOME NEAR-TERM OPPORTUNITIES

58:19ON A PLACE LIKE LINCOLN STREET

58:20WHERE THERE'S GOING TO BE

58:21ASSOCIATED CONSTRUCTION WHERE

58:22WE CAN ACTUALLY PROVIDE THAT

58:24KEY, UH, EAST-WEST LINK WHICH

58:26UH, DOESN'T EXIST TODAY UH,

58:28FROM THE FRANKLIN STREET BRIDGE

58:29TO POINTS WEST.

58:30UM, THAT WITH SOME WORK WITH

58:33DCR CAN THEN HELP ENHANCE

58:34GETTING PEOPLE TO THE FALL DOWN

58:36THE RIGHT PATH.

58:37THERE OBVIOUSLY ARE SOME LONGER

58:38TERM EFFORTS THAT UH, YOU HAVE

58:40BEEN LEADING ON AND THAT WE'VE

58:41BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT ABOUT

58:43OTHER CONNECTIONS WHETHER IT

58:44AGAIN OR OTHER LOCATIONS UH,

58:46WITHIN ALLSTON BRIGHTON TO

58:47ENSURE THAT PEOPLE CAN GET UM

58:49TO THE ESPLANADE AN INCREDIBLE

58:50OPEN SPACE THAT.

58:51>> IS THERE.

58:52UM EACH OF THOSE HAVE A

58:53DIFFERENT SORT OF LIKE TIMELINE

58:55AND COST.

58:56UM, BUT ALL OF THOSE ARE SOME

58:58STRATEGIES YOU WANT TO BE ABLE

58:59TO MOVE FORWARD ON.

59:00THANK YOU.

59:01>> UM THEY ALSO BRIGHTON

59:02COMMUNITY PLAN IS SET TO

59:03INCLUDE ROBUST TRANSPORTATION

59:05RECOMMENDATIONS.

59:06AND WHILE I REALLY APPRECIATE

59:08THAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS

59:10AND LOOKING AT IT WE HAVE SO

59:12MUCH STUDY WE HAVE THE 1920

59:142018 ALLSTON MOBILITY STUDY.

59:17WE'VE HAD UH THE GO BOSTON

59:19STUDY WITH VISION ZERO.

59:22UM THESE ARE PLANNING DOCUMENTS

59:23THAT HAVE EXISTED FOR YEARS SO

59:25I THINK IS REALLY READY FOR

59:27ACTION NOW THAT WE'VE STUDIED

59:28TO DEATH.

59:29UM, WHAT'S UH WHAT'S THE

59:32EXPECTATION?

59:32HOW QUICKLY CAN WE START TO SEE

59:34SOME THINGS BEING MATERIALIZED?

59:36UH, I THINK WE ARE ALREADY TO

59:37YOUR POINT TO GO FROM SORT

59:39OF TO CONTINUE THAT PROGRESSION

59:40FROM PLAN TO IMPLEMENTATION.

59:41THAT IS REALLY WHY OUR FOCUS IS

59:43ON THOSE SECTIONS OF HOW DO WE

59:45STRENGTHEN WHAT WE HAVE ALREADY

59:47BY PROVIDING MINERAL MATERIAL

59:48IMPROVEMENTS.

59:48HOW DO WE EXTEND OR EXPAND THE

59:50NETWORK WE HAVE ALREADY

59:51INSTALLED FILL THOSE BROKEN

59:52CONNECTIONS THAT THAT DON'T

59:53EXIST TODAY?

59:54UM THAT IS A LOT OF THE WORK AS

59:56WE BUILD OUR CAPITAL PLAN OR

59:58CONSTRUCTION PLAN FOR 2027 AND

1:00:00BEYOND.

1:00:00SO UM THAT'LL BE SOMETHING

1:00:01WE'LL BE PRESENTING TO THE

1:00:02COUNCIL UM, FOR UH, FOR YOUR

1:00:04VOTE AND AUTHORIZATION UH, NEXT

1:00:05YEAR.

1:00:06THANK YOU.

1:00:06THANK YOU.

1:00:07THANK YOU SO MUCH TO THE

1:00:08COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND AGAIN, UM

1:00:10,JUST WANTED TO APOLOGIZE.

1:00:11YOU ARE THE CO-SPONSOR ON ONE

1:00:12OF THE DOCKETS.

1:00:13I THINK THERE WAS AN ERROR

1:00:14EITHER IN LED TO START OR ON

1:00:16THE GREEN SHEET, SO APOLOGIES.

1:00:17UM, UH, COUNCILOR FLYNN, YOU

1:00:19HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:00:21THANK YOU.

1:00:22>> LAST JUNE I FILED AN

1:00:25ORDINANCE, UM, ESTABLISHING A

1:00:28ROAD SAFETY, UM, COMMISSION TO

1:00:31REGULATE THE USE OF E-BIKES,

1:00:33MOTORIZED BIKES, MOTORIZED

1:00:35SCOOTERS IN BOSTON.

1:00:37I KNOW GOVERNOR HEALEY'S TEAM

1:00:39DID SOME.

1:00:40WORK ON THIS ISSUE.

1:00:43UM, AS IT RELATES TO THOSE

1:00:46PARTICULAR UM THOSE PARTICULAR

1:00:49ISSUES THAT I HIGHLIGHTED.

1:00:50UM, I ALSO CALLED FOR A HEARING

1:00:52AND HELD HEARINGS ON THIS

1:00:53SUBJECT UM, FOR FOR MANY YEARS

1:00:57AND PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND SAFE

1:01:00STREETS AND SAFE SIDEWALKS

1:01:01REALLY HAS BEEN A TOP PRIORITY

1:01:05OF MINE AS WELL.

1:01:06UM, CHRIS, UM I WANT TO GET

1:01:11BACK ON TO, UM, TRUCKS IN

1:01:14BOSTON.

1:01:15UM.

1:01:18IS THERE ANY WAY.

1:01:19FOR BOSTON TO CONSIDER

1:01:22DELIVERIES TRUCKS MAKING

1:01:24DELIVERIES AT CERTAIN TIMES

1:01:26OF THE EVENING?

1:01:27CERTAIN TIMES OF THE NIGHT?

1:01:28UM, I LIVE IN NEW YORK CITY AND

1:01:31MANY OF THE RESTAURANTS DO HAVE

1:01:33UM, DELIVERIES AFTER LITERALLY

1:01:36AFTER MIDNIGHT MIDNIGHT TILL

1:01:383:00 IN THE MORNING, MIDNIGHT

1:01:40TO 4:00 IN THE MORNING.

1:01:41UH, WHEN MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT ON

1:01:43THE ROADS IS THAT IS THAT

1:01:45SOMETHING THAT WE COULD

1:01:46POSSIBLY CONSIDER?

1:01:47SURE.

1:01:48>> MAYOR MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL

1:01:49THOUGHTS ON ON THIS, I THINK

1:01:51THE SORT OF THAT SET

1:01:53OF QUESTIONS IS EXACTLY WHY

1:01:54WE'RE SO FOCUSED ON URBAN

1:01:55LOGISTICS AND FREIGHT AND HOW

1:01:56WE MANAGE.

1:01:57THAT BODY OF WORK.

1:01:58UM, FOR ROAD SAFETY FOR OUR

1:02:01NEIGHBORHOODS, ETC. BUT WE

1:02:02HAVE.

1:02:02YET TO UM CHIEF.

1:02:03HOSKINS POINT WHERE WE'RE

1:02:04ACTIVELY LOOKING.

1:02:05>> INTO THIS TO SEE HOW OTHER

1:02:06CITIES HAVE ACCOMPLISHED

1:02:07STRATEGIES LIKE THIS.

1:02:08I THINK UM, THE UPCOMING

1:02:10STAKEHOLDER CONVERSATIONS THAT

1:02:10WE INTEND TO HAVE AROUND THE

1:02:12DATA AND THE UM IDEAS THAT WE

1:02:14HAVE I THINK WILL HELP US

1:02:16REALLY UNDERSTAND THE

1:02:16FEASIBILITY FOR LOCAL

1:02:18BUSINESSES TO SUPPORT, UM,

1:02:20LOADING IN OFF HOURS BECAUSE WE

1:02:22WILL WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

1:02:23ARE BALANCING THE IMPACT ACROSS

1:02:24THE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THESE KIND

1:02:26OF IMPROVEMENTS AND STRATEGIES.

1:02:28YEAH.

1:02:29>> THANK YOU HAVE.

1:02:29RECOMMENDED THIS FOR YEARS AND

1:02:31UM I DO KNOW WHEN A TRUCK MAKES

1:02:33A DELIVERY IN A PARTICULAR

1:02:34NEIGHBORHOOD AT 9:00 IN THE

1:02:37MORNING 8:00 IN THE MORNING.

1:02:39IT IT IT.

1:02:40BASICALLY SHUTS DOWN THE ENTIRE

1:02:42STREET.

1:02:43I HAVE SEEN IT ON TREMONT

1:02:45STREET OR I'VE SEEN IT IN THE

1:02:46SOUTH AND I'VE SEEN IT ON

1:02:47BROADWAY IN SOUTH BOSTON WHERE

1:02:49A TRUCK WILL BE IN IN THE LANE

1:02:51AS YOU KNOW, DELIVERING.

1:02:54AND THERE CAN BE NO TRAFFIC

1:02:56COMING AND THEN THEN THE

1:02:58TRAFFIC HAS TO LITERALLY GO

1:02:59INTO THE THE OPPOSITE SIDE

1:03:01OF THE STREET.

1:03:05UM IT'S VERY VERY UNSAFE.

1:03:06BUT THE OTHER QUESTION CHRIS I

1:03:09WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT.

1:03:12IS IT'S AN ISSUE I HAVE FOCUSED

1:03:14ON BUT ENFORCING THE RULES

1:03:16OF THE ROAD SPEEDING SPEEDING

1:03:19CARS I THINK HAS TO BE PART

1:03:21OF THE SOLUTION.

1:03:23I WAS PART OF THE TEAM THAT

1:03:25RECOMMENDED THE SPEED LIMIT BE

1:03:27REDUCED TO 25 MILES, AND I

1:03:30STILL THINK THAT'S EXCESSIVE.

1:03:33I THINK IT SHOULD BE REDUCED

1:03:34EVEN FURTHER TO 20.

1:03:35BUT MY POINT IS EVEN WITH THE

1:03:3825 MILE AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT UH

1:03:41GOING THROUGH VERY SIMPLE IS

1:03:43VERY VERY FAST.

1:03:44BUT WE ALSO KNOW THAT CARS ARE

1:03:46SPEEDING 40 MILES AN HOUR.

1:03:49BUT TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT BOSTON

1:03:52POLICE HAS TO BE PART OF THE

1:03:54SOLUTION AS WELL.

1:03:55I FOCUS ON THIS OFTEN BUT JUST

1:03:57GIVE ME A THOUGHTS CHRIS ON HOW

1:03:58WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH BOSTON

1:04:02POLICE AS A PARTNER ENFORCING

1:04:04THE CURRENT RULES OF THE ROAD.

1:04:06UM, SO WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO

1:04:08HAVE A HAVE A GOOD PARTNERSHIP

1:04:09WITH BOSTON POLICE WHO TO YOUR

1:04:11POINT, UM, DOES ALL THE

1:04:12ENFORCEMENT OF MOVING

1:04:13VIOLATIONS WHILE UM THIS

1:04:15GOVERNANCE TEAM FOCUS IS REALLY

1:04:16ON ALL THE PARKING RELATED

1:04:18RULES AGAIN WITH SUPPORT FROM

1:04:20FROM DPD AND IN THAT LOCATION.

1:04:21UM, I THINK TWO TWO NOTES.

1:04:23ONE IS THAT UH IN ADDITION TO

1:04:25ENFORCEMENT THERE ARE

1:04:26ENGINEERING OPPORTUNITIES TO UM

1:04:28REALLY FOCUS ON WHICH IS HOW WE

1:04:30DESIGN A ROADWAY TO UH TO LOWER

1:04:32SPEEDS WITH A NUMBER OF TRAFFIC

1:04:33CALMING INTERVENTIONS, UM, THAT

1:04:35WE HAVE PARTNERED WITH THE STAR

1:04:37COUNCIL ON AND WE'LL CONTINUE

1:04:38TO DO AS WE THINK ABOUT UM, HOW

1:04:40BEST TO UM, CALM SPEEDS, UH,

1:04:42REDUCE CRASHES AND UH, AND MAKE

1:04:44OUR NEIGHBORHOOD SAFER.

1:04:45UH, IN ADDITION TO THE WORK

1:04:47AROUND UH AROUND ENGINEERING

1:04:49CHANGES AND ENFORCEMENT UM,

1:04:51THERE IS AND I'VE ALL OF YOU

1:04:52HAVE BEEN CHAMPIONS FOR THIS

1:04:53UM, CLEARLY WORK AROUND JUST

1:04:55EDUCATION MAKING SURE THAT UM,

1:04:57DRIVERS ARE AWARE AND THERE'S A

1:04:59VERY SIGNIFICANT UH, DIFFERENCE

1:05:01TO YOUR POINT HAS BEEN WELL

1:05:02DOCUMENTED ABOUT UM, THE UM

1:05:05SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE THAT

1:05:06SPEED CAN CAUSE UM, UH, TO

1:05:08ANYBODY WHO IS UH, WALKING OR

1:05:11BIKING, UH, IF THEY'RE STRUCK

1:05:13BY A VEHICLE UM, IN ADDITION TO

1:05:14THE WORK AROUND ENFORCEMENT

1:05:16ENGINEERING UM, THAT WE HAVE

1:05:17RIGHT NOW, THERE IS CURRENT

1:05:19LEGISLATION UM, THAT WOULD

1:05:21ALLOW FOR UH PHOTO ENFORCEMENT

1:05:23,UH, ACROSS THE COMMONWEALTH

1:05:24OF SPEEDING UH, IN LOCATIONS

1:05:26LIKE UH SCHOOL ZONES.

1:05:29UM UH UM.

1:05:31UH CONSTRUCTION ZONES AND SORT

1:05:32OF DESIGNATED SAFETY ZONES.

1:05:33UM, LEGISLATION LIKE THAT IS A.

1:05:35PATH THAT WE CAN ALSO USE A

1:05:37TOOL THAT WE CAN BE ABLE TO USE

1:05:38TO ADDRESS, UH, SPEEDING IN OUR

1:05:40CITY.

1:05:41THANK YOU CHRIS.

1:05:44THE FINAL THE FINAL POINT UH,

1:05:47ONE OF THE POINTS YOU MADE

1:05:48COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, I

1:05:50THINK IS A CRITICAL PART OF IT

1:05:52EDUCATING THE PUBLIC ON WHAT

1:05:54THE RULES OF THE ROAD ARE.

1:05:55BUT, UM, HOW YOU CAN HOW YOU

1:05:58CAN PREVENT ACCIDENTS, HOW YOU

1:06:00CAN BE, YOU KNOW, A DEFENSIVE

1:06:02DRIVER, HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT

1:06:04YOUR FAMILY WHEN YOU'RE

1:06:05CROSSING THE INTERSECTION.

1:06:07WE KNOW CARS DON'T NECESSARILY

1:06:09STOP AT INTERSECTIONS.

1:06:11UM, WE SEE ELDERLY PEOPLE AND

1:06:13WE SEE PERSONS WITH

1:06:15DISABILITIES ALMOST GETTING HIT

1:06:16ALMOST EVERY DAY.

1:06:18UM.

1:06:19AND PART OF THAT WHAT IS THE

1:06:21COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO EDUCATE

1:06:23DRIVERS ABOUT ROAD SAFETY

1:06:27ESPECIALLY GOING INTO UM AS IT

1:06:29RELATES TO CROSSWALKS?

1:06:30SURE.

1:06:31>> UM.

1:06:32SO UH THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A LOT

1:06:34OF WORK UH, WITH GREAT

1:06:35LEADERSHIP BY UH BY MASSDOT IN

1:06:37THE STATE ON EXACTLY THE

1:06:38SUBJECT AND SOMETHING WHICH WE

1:06:39CAN CONTINUE TO SORT

1:06:40OF COLLABORATE WITH AND

1:06:41AMPLIFY.

1:06:41UM, THIS IS AS WITH EVERY

1:06:44EDUCATIONAL EFFORT, SOMETHING

1:06:45WHERE THE MORE VOICES WE'RE

1:06:47TALKING ABOUT IT UH, AND THE

1:06:48MORE FREQUENTLY IT'S TALKED

1:06:49ABOUT UM, THE MORE PEOPLE THAT

1:06:51WE'RE GOING TO REACH.

1:06:51AND SO I APPRECIATE ALL THE

1:06:52WORK THAT THE COUNCIL DOES.

1:06:54UM, TO CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE UH

1:06:56,THAT EDUCATION PIECE THAT

1:06:58SORT OF COMPLIMENTS ALL THE

1:06:59ENGINEERING WORK WHICH WE'RE

1:07:00TRYING TO DO THE PROGRAMMATIC

1:07:01WORK THAT UH THAT KIM SPOKE

1:07:03ABOUT.

1:07:03UM, AND THEN THE OF UM SORT

1:07:06OF ENGAGEMENT WHICH WE'RE DOING

1:07:07SEPARATELY.

1:07:07THANK YOU CHRIS.

1:07:09THANKS.

1:07:10>> COUNCILOR FLYNN.

1:07:11UM, COUNCILOR FITZGERALD, YOU

1:07:12HAVE THE FLOOR ARE VICE CHAIR.

1:07:13THANK YOU.

1:07:14>> CHAIR.

1:07:15UM.

1:07:19CYCLING IN THE CITY IS VERY

1:07:21DIRTY.

1:07:21CYCLING ANYWHERE IS EXTREMELY

1:07:22DANGEROUS.

1:07:23CHRIS.

1:07:23AS YOU KNOW, UM, I TAKE PART IN

1:07:25THE PAN MASS CHALLENGE EVERY

1:07:26YEAR AND WE GO OUT FOR OUR

1:07:28TRAINING RIDES AND I TRY TO GET

1:07:30OUT OF THE CITY SOMETIMES AS

1:07:31FAST AS I CAN.

1:07:32WE GOING ON THOSE LONGER RIDES

1:07:33BECAUSE TO KNOW TO TO TRY TO DO

1:07:34IT.

1:07:35PARTICULARLY WITHIN CITY LIMITS

1:07:37UM I JUST DON'T FEEL IS IS

1:07:40QUITE AS SAFE QUITE HONEST.

1:07:41RIGHT.

1:07:42UM BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE

1:07:44UNDERSTAND A COUPLE OF THINGS

1:07:45ABOUT THAT WHEN WHEN WHEN I AM

1:07:47OUT THERE TRAINING IT'S IT'S A

1:07:49I LOOK AT THINGS LIKE THE

1:07:51DEPOSIT GREENWAY THAT WE HOP ON

1:07:52RIGHT.

1:07:52AND YOU'VE MENTIONED THAT A

1:07:53COUPLE TIMES I LOOK AT THE

1:07:54SOUTHWEST QUARTER YOU MENTIONED

1:07:55THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES A DAY.

1:07:58TO ME THE SHARING THE ROAD IS

1:08:00AN IMPORTANT PIECE BUT A

1:08:02SEPARATE PATH, A NETWORK

1:08:04OF SEPARATE PATHS THAT YOU THAT

1:08:06THAT VEHICLE THAT THAT

1:08:07MOTORIZED VEHICLES CANNOT

1:08:09PARTICIPATE ON TO ME IS THE

1:08:11IDEAL NETWORK.

1:08:12THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN REALLY LET

1:08:14ALL STRESS GO AND JUST FOCUS ON

1:08:16THE BIKING AND AND AND ENJOY

1:08:18THE SCENERY AND TAKING THE RIDE

1:08:19.

1:08:20UM AND I KNOW IN CONNECTING

1:08:21THOSE THAT THERE'S OBVIOUSLY

1:08:22GOING TO BE POINTS YOU HAVE TO

1:08:24CROSS THE STREET AND THINGS

1:08:25LIKE THAT BUT UM I BRING THAT

1:08:27UP TO TO THINK ABOUT ARE THERE

1:08:29ANY OTHER IDENTIFIED AREAS AND

1:08:30YOU'VE MENTIONED SOME BUT THAT

1:08:31ARE STRICTLY UH YOU KNOW, WE'RE

1:08:34NOT SHARING WITH THE BECAUSE I

1:08:35THINK THAT IS THE SAFEST FOR

1:08:36ALL CYCLISTS AND REALLY WALKERS

1:08:39RUNNERS AS WELL MULTI-MODAL

1:08:40PATHWAY UM THAT IS NOT SHARED

1:08:42WITH THE ROAD BUT ASIDE FROM

1:08:44LIKE ARE WE ARE WE USING THE

1:08:46EMERALD NECKLACE?

1:08:47ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HOW

1:08:48BECAUSE THAT GOES AROUND THE

1:08:50CITY AND IS THERE WHEN I THINK

1:08:53ABOUT IN MY HEAD MAYBE BUT I

1:08:54DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A

1:08:55COORDINATED BIKE PATH

1:08:56THROUGHOUT THAT UM AND IF SO

1:08:59AND AND FOR THE FOLKS THAT

1:09:00THERE'S OBVIOUSLY A THERE'S A

1:09:02THERE'S ANOTHER PORTION THAT'S

1:09:03VERY ANTI BIKE LANE COMMUNITY

1:09:04THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT I THINK

1:09:06IT'S IMPORTANT FOR THOSE FOLKS

1:09:08TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT

1:09:09EVERY STREET EVERYWHERE ACROSS

1:09:12THE CITY.

1:09:13UM AND THEN ALL THOSE SOME

1:09:14FOLKS MIGHT THINK THAT IS THE

1:09:16IDEAL AND I UNDERSTAND THAT UM

1:09:18I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:09:20HEY, A NETWORK IS AN OKAY THING

1:09:22TO HAVE A.

1:09:23MULTIMODAL PATH NETWORK THAT IS

1:09:24FOR NON VEHICULAR TRAFFIC WITH

1:09:27CONNECTIONS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN

1:09:28ACROSS AND AND WE CAN MAKE

1:09:29THOSE SAFE.

1:09:30UM WHAT ARE SOME OF THE OTHER

1:09:32AREAS THAT WE ARE IDENTIFYING

1:09:34THAT MIGHT BE IN THAT CATEGORY

1:09:36OF NOT SHARING THE ROAD AT ALL

1:09:38WITH THE VEHICLE?

1:09:39SURE APPRECIATE THAT.

1:09:41SO UM I THINK THAT NETWORK IS

1:09:43UH IN SOME PLACES TO YOUR POINT

1:09:44EXISTS IN SOME PLACES IS STILL

1:09:46EMERGING UH, IN MANY PLACES

1:09:48EVEN WHERE IT EXISTS.

1:09:49THERE'S SOME LINKS THAT WE NEED

1:09:50TO SORT OF ADDRESS.

1:09:51SO IN EAST BOSTON YOU HAVE

1:09:52SOMETHING LIKE THE MARIANNE

1:09:53HILLS GREENWAY.

1:09:53UM, THERE IS A UH AN EXPECTED

1:09:55CAPITAL PROJECT THAT WILL HELP

1:09:56IMPROVE THE INTERSECTION OF THE

1:09:58NORTHERN END OF THAT, UH, WHICH

1:09:59IS GOOD OR ALL SQUARE SORT

1:10:00OF MOVING COUNTERCLOCKWISE, SO

1:10:02TO SPEAK, UH, TO CHARLESTOWN

1:10:03THE RUTHERFORD PROJECT, WHICH

1:10:05IS CURRENTLY SLATED FOR FEDERAL

1:10:06FISCAL YEAR 31 UM, WOULD HAVE A

1:10:09VERY SIGNIFICANT UM, SEPARATED

1:10:12SIDEWALK LEVEL BIKE PATH UH,

1:10:14THAT WOULD EXTEND FROM THE

1:10:15BILL.

1:10:15RUSSELL BRIDGE.

1:10:16UM, TO SULLIVAN SQUARE AND

1:10:18BEYOND EVENTUALLY CONNECTING

1:10:19WITH THE NORTHERN STRAND WHICH

1:10:21IS A MAJOR FOR A MAJOR UM UH,

1:10:23BIKE AS WE'VE DISCUSSED SORT

1:10:25OF MOVING FURTHER

1:10:26COUNTERCLOCKWISE WE'VE GOT THE

1:10:27PAUL DUDLEY WHITE PATH AND THE

1:10:28ESPLANADE, UM, WHERE YOU DO

1:10:30HAVE SOME LINKS THAT WE ARE

1:10:31STILL NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

1:10:32ARE ADDRESSING AS UH,

1:10:34COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRITTON

1:10:35MENTIONED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE

1:10:36ARE FINDING THE BEST WAYS TO

1:10:38CONNECT RESIDENTS TO THAT PATH

1:10:39.

1:10:39UM, YOU HAVE THE MURRAY RIVER

1:10:41AND SOME LINKS THAT WE ARE

1:10:42FOCUSED ON THERE.

1:10:43UM, AS COUNCILOR DURKAN

1:10:44MENTIONED UH, AT THE UM PHASE

1:10:47THREE OF THE OF THE FENWAY

1:10:48PATH, UM THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR

1:10:51AND THE NEED TO BE ABLE TO

1:10:52CONTINUE TO EXTEND THAT UM TO

1:10:53ADDITIONAL AREAS UH, IN

1:10:55ROSLINDALE AND BEYOND THROUGH

1:10:56THINGS LIKE THE ARBORETUM

1:10:57GATEWAY PATH IS A VERY

1:10:58IMPORTANT UH, PART OF THIS

1:11:00PROJECT AMERICAN LEGION HIGHWAY

1:11:02AND COMMONS HIGHWAY.

1:11:03UM BUT WE WILL HAVE UH AND THEN

1:11:06UH IN YOUR DISTRICT UH, LOOKING

1:11:09AT THAT THE RIVER GREENWAY PORT

1:11:11NORFOLK MORRISSEY BOULEVARD

1:11:12CONNECTION.

1:11:13IS RIGHT.

1:11:14IS A REALLY IMPORTANT TOWN

1:11:14ANYWAY, I WAS LIKE LONG WINDED

1:11:16AND BRIEF AND I'M SURE I MISSED

1:11:17THINGS OR TOURS BUT LIKE THOSE

1:11:18THOSE REALLY HIGH QUALITY SORT

1:11:21OF SPINES OF THE OVERALL

1:11:22NETWORK THE SORT OF THE SPOKES

1:11:23OF OF OUR OVERALL BIKE NETWORK

1:11:25IN MANY PLACES ARE ACTUALLY UH

1:11:27EITHER EXIST WITH SOME LINKS

1:11:29AND WE NEED TO WORK ON UM OR

1:11:31ARE THE FOCUS OF SOME MAJOR

1:11:32CAPITAL PROJECTS WE'VE GOT

1:11:33COMING UP.

1:11:34GREAT.

1:11:34>> THANK YOU.

1:11:35UM, IN ROAD SAFETY IN GENERAL I

1:11:38WOULD SAY ABOUT 75% OF THE

1:11:39CALLS, EMAILS, UH, YOU KNOW,

1:11:42COMPLAINTS THAT WE GET IS IS

1:11:44TRAFFIC OR VEHICULAR RELATED,

1:11:46RIGHT?

1:11:46I MEAN, SO THIS IS LIKE I THINK

1:11:48ACROSS THE CITY THIS IS WHAT'S

1:11:50ON ANYONE'S MIND THE SPEEDING,

1:11:51THE PEOPLE DRIVING, LEGISLATING

1:11:53PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOR IS A

1:11:54DIFFICULT THING AND IT'S A

1:11:56SLIPPERY RIGHT.

1:11:57SO I UNDERSTAND SORT OF SOME

1:11:59OF THE THINGS THAT WE CAN PUT

1:12:00IN BUT I THINK WHY I I ALWAYS

1:12:02GO BACK TO THIS NOT SHARING THE

1:12:04ROAD TO ME IS THAT'S THE SAFEST

1:12:06BECAUSE WE COULD SAY THE SPEED

1:12:07LIMITS 20 AND PUT IN ALL THESE

1:12:09OTHER UH ROAD SAFETY MEASURES

1:12:11BUT IT'S DIFFICULT TO LEGISLATE

1:12:13SOMEONE'S BEHAVIOR AND I THINK

1:12:15UM WE CAN ALL AGREE THAT THE

1:12:16DRIVING BEHAVIOR HAS GOTTEN A

1:12:18LITTLE BIT MORE RECKLESS.

1:12:19UM, AND IN RECENT YEARS, UM.

1:12:23ANOTHER QUESTION NO ONE IN 50S

1:12:25THIS IS KIND OF A CURVEBALL.

1:12:26I IT'S I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER

1:12:28.

1:12:28RIGHT.

1:12:29AND THAT'S WHY I'M ASKING BUT I

1:12:30THINK ABOUT PUTTING IN THIS

1:12:33INFRASTRUCTURE FOR BIKE LANE

1:12:33BUT THEN I ALSO THINK ABOUT

1:12:35OKAY WHAT ARE THE SECONDARY AND

1:12:36TERTIARY EFFECTS THAT WE MIGHT

1:12:37HAVE TO DEAL WITH DOWN THE LINE

1:12:38FROM THAT I THINK ABOUT OUR

1:12:41POWER GRID AND THE CONSTRUCTION

1:12:43NEEDED TO UPGRADE RIGHT THINGS

1:12:45ON THE POWER GRID AND PUTTING

1:12:48IN THIS INFRASTRUCTURE AND THEN

1:12:50AS WE SEE AND WE SEE STILL SEE

1:12:51IT THEN THE ROADS GET RIPPED UP

1:12:53AND HOW MUCH OF THAT YOU KNOW

1:12:55IT'S AN ADDED COST AND WHAT I

1:12:57WORRY ABOUT IS IT A IT'S A COST

1:12:58THAT MAYBE SOME OF THE

1:12:59UTILITIES WILL SAY WELL WE'LL

1:13:00PASS THAT ON TO OUR CUSTOMERS.

1:13:03UH, BECAUSE A BIKE LANE IS IT

1:13:04MORE EXPENSIVE THAN TO JUST LAY

1:13:06DOWN THE TIRE OR THE DIFFERENT

1:13:07MATERIAL THAT WE USE?

1:13:08AND SO IF WE ARE CONSTANTLY IF

1:13:10WE STILL NEED TO EXPAND OUR

1:13:11GRADING WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOU

1:13:12KNOW, TRYING TO GO ELECTRICAL

1:13:13TRYING TO REDUCE

1:13:14CARBON EMISSIONS AND WE DON'T

1:13:16HAVE THE INFRASTRUCTURE WE NEED

1:13:18TO UPDATE IT IF THIS ALONG WITH

1:13:20MANY OTHER NOT JUST BIKE BUT

1:13:21RIGHT ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER

1:13:22STUFF THAT WE DO ON TOP OF THE

1:13:23STREET HAVING TO RIP THAT UP,

1:13:25IS THAT GOING TO BE A COST

1:13:27PASSED DOWN TO CUSTOMERS WHEN

1:13:28WHEN ENERGY IS ALREADY SORT

1:13:30OF A YEAH THAT'S WHAT THIS ONE

1:13:32IS A SCREWY ONE.

1:13:32BUT I WAS LIKE REALLY?

1:13:33ALL MY COLLEAGUES ASKED A LOT

1:13:35OF GREAT QUESTIONS THAT I SAW

1:13:36THAT ANSWERED.

1:13:37SO I HAD TO GO DEEP IN THE BAG

1:13:39FOR THAT ONE.

1:13:40UM SO I THINK UH ULTIMATELY

1:13:41UTILITIES COMBINED DO A BETTER

1:13:43JOB OF ANSWERING THAT SPECIFIC

1:13:44QUESTION THAN I CAN.

1:13:45I THINK THERE'S A LOT

1:13:46OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO

1:13:47THINK ABOUT AS ANY UTILITY

1:13:48COMPANY UH, OR ANY OF OUR

1:13:50PARTNERS DO WORK IN THE PUBLIC

1:13:51RIGHT OF WAY HOW THEY CAN

1:13:52EITHER ENSURE THAT THEY'RE

1:13:54MAINTAINING OR ENHANCING WHAT

1:13:55WAS THERE BEFORE.

1:13:55TO YOUR POINT THOUGH, I THINK

1:13:57OVER AND OVER AGAIN WE'VE SEEN

1:13:59UH, THE GREAT CO-BENEFITS

1:14:00OF BUILDING UM HIGH QUALITY

1:14:02BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE WHETHER IT

1:14:03IS WHETHER YOU'RE BIKING OR

1:14:04WALKING OR DRIVING THE SAFETY

1:14:06IMPROVEMENTS, THE PUBLIC HEALTH

1:14:07IMPROVEMENTS OF UM HAVING

1:14:08PEOPLE HAVE A GREAT WAY

1:14:10OF BEING ABLE TO GET OUTSIDE

1:14:11AND UH AND RIDE UH AS WELL AS

1:14:13THE IMPORTANT OPPORTUNITY TO BE

1:14:15ABLE TO LOWER EMISSIONS AND

1:14:17ADDRESS CONGESTION AND PROVIDE

1:14:19AN AFFORDABLE WAY TO BE ABLE TO

1:14:20CONNECT TO GREAT DESTINATIONS

1:14:21IN OUR CITY.

1:14:22SO UM, ON THE SPECIFIC HAPPY TO

1:14:25SORT OF FOLLOW UP IN SOME

1:14:26OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE'RE

1:14:26GOING TO HAVE WITH EACH OTHER

1:14:27COMPANIES BUT UM, IN GENERAL

1:14:29WE'RE SEEING GREAT CO-BENEFITS

1:14:30FROM MR.

1:14:31GREAT.

1:14:32>> APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE

1:14:32QUESTION.

1:14:33THANKS, CHRIS.

1:14:33THANK YOU.

1:14:34PANEL THANKS,

1:14:35COUNCILOR FITZGERALD.

1:14:36COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE YOU HAVE

1:14:37THE FLOOR.

1:14:40THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR AND

1:14:41THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION

1:14:42FOR BEING HERE.

1:14:43I WANT TO GIVE A SPECIAL THANK

1:14:45YOU TO YOU, DIRECTOR CAPONE AND

1:14:47LEWIS.

1:14:48UH, YOU BOTH WERE EXTREMELY.

1:14:50INSTRUMENTAL IN.

1:14:51>> A BIKE.

1:14:51>> RIDE THAT WE, UM, PREPARED

1:14:53THAT WE, UH, DID WITH YARD TIME

1:14:56ENTERTAINMENT AND WE DID THAT I

1:14:58THINK JUST TWO WEEKS BEFORE

1:14:59LEWIS PASSED AWAY.

1:15:00AND SO JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU

1:15:02BECAUSE IT WAS REALLY, REALLY

1:15:03MEANINGFUL TO THE COMMUNITY.

1:15:04I WAS ABLE.

1:15:05TO GO ON THE BIKE RIDE.

1:15:06UM.

1:15:07>> WITH THEM AND IT WAS REALLY

1:15:08A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY AND

1:15:09WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT

1:15:10RECURRING EVENTS AND JUST GOING

1:15:12TO UPLIFT JOEY BENNETT.

1:15:12I KNOW THAT HE.

1:15:13REALLY APPRECIATED YOUR WORK

1:15:15AND LEWIS'S WORKS.

1:15:16JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU.

1:15:17YOUR FLOWERS AND WANTED TO

1:15:19THANK YOU FOR THAT.

1:15:20UM I ALSO COUNCILOR I HAD

1:15:22UPLIFTED.

1:15:23CUMMINGS HIGHWAY.

1:15:24I LIVE SORT OF ONE STREET OFF

1:15:26OF CUMMINS HIGHWAY AND JUST

1:15:27WANT TO SAY THAT I AM A BIG FAN

1:15:29OF THE REDESIGN THERE EXCEPT

1:15:31FOR THE UH WHICH I'VE TALKED

1:15:33ABOUT ALL THE TIME EXCEPT FOR

1:15:34THE ROTARY WHICH I UNDERSTAND

1:15:38BECAUSE IT'S YOU CAN DRIVE ON

1:15:40IT WHICH IS THE REASON FOR WHY

1:15:41IT'S SO BIG AND TAKES UP SO

1:15:43MUCH SPACE ON THE STREET.

1:15:43UM, BUT I'M A I'M A BIG FAN

1:15:46OF THE CUMMINS HIGHWAY REDESIGN

1:15:47AND I SEE CARMEN AND FOLKS WHO

1:15:49HELPED ORGANIZE THE RIDE THAT I

1:15:51JUST, UM, COULD BE MISSED BUT

1:15:53WANTED TO JUST UPLIFT THAT.

1:15:54I THINK THAT THAT WAS, UM, A

1:15:56GOOD PROCESS AND A REALLY GOOD

1:15:58UM UH, FOR OVERALL LIKE I MEAN,

1:16:01I SAY THIS I FEEL GOOD WHEN I'M

1:16:03DRIVING HOME.

1:16:04IT LOOKS IT LOOKS GOOD, IT

1:16:06LOOKS ESTHETICALLY PLEASING AND

1:16:08I THINK PARKING HAS BEEN UM UH

1:16:10IT'S BEEN IT'S BEEN FINE.

1:16:11YOU MENTIONED CONNECTIVITY

1:16:13OF THE BIKE LANE ON THE

1:16:14NORTHWEST CORNER AMERICAN

1:16:16LEGION.

1:16:17UH, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT

1:16:18MORE ABOUT THAT?

1:16:19BECAUSE I DO SEE THE

1:16:20CONNECTIVITY FROM CUMMINS TO

1:16:22AMERICAN LEGION WHEN YOU'RE

1:16:23TURNING BUT ARE YOU TALKING

1:16:24ABOUT THE MESS OF THE

1:16:25INTERSECTION THAT IS THERE

1:16:27JUST.

1:16:27>> THINKING.

1:16:27ABOUT THE UM, HARVARD UH,

1:16:30CUMMINS HIGHWAY INTERSECTION.

1:16:32THE WHICH ONE?

1:16:33>> THAT'S RIGHT.

1:16:33THE HARVARD COMMONS HIGHWAY

1:16:34INTERSECTION SORT OF DOWN OR UP

1:16:36AND THEN DOWN THE HILL TO

1:16:37AMERICAN LEGION HIGHWAY.

1:16:38SO RECOGNIZE THAT AS A LINK

1:16:40THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS TO MAKE

1:16:41SURE THAT WE'RE CONNECTING

1:16:42THOSE TWO PARTS OF UH.

1:16:43COMING FROM HYDE PARK AVENUE.

1:16:45UH, YES ESSENTIALLY AND AND

1:16:47THERE YES, COMING FROM PARK

1:16:49AVENUE AND I THINK WHILE WE

1:16:50HAVE SEPARATE INFRASTRUCTURE ON

1:16:53AMERICAN LEGION HIGHWAY.

1:16:54UM, I APPRECIATE TO YOU GUYS

1:16:56JUST POINTED AS YOU RAISED AN

1:16:58OPPORTUNITY TO THINK ABOUT HOW

1:16:59DO WE CONTINUE THAT DESIGN

1:17:01STANDARD, UM, OR A SIMILAR

1:17:03APPROACH, UM, TO BE ABLE TO

1:17:04REALLY CONNECT.

1:17:05>> THOSE.

1:17:05TO REALLY IMPORTANT PARTS

1:17:06OF OUR OVERALL NETWORK?

1:17:07YEAH.

1:17:08>> I'M ALSO.

1:17:09>> PRETTY SURE THAT I HAVE

1:17:09UPLIFTED THIS AS WELL.

1:17:10I THINK ALL THE FLATS POST ARE

1:17:11NOW MISSING OR GONE.

1:17:13SO I MEAN IT UH AND WE'VE

1:17:15TALKED ABOUT THIS LIKE WHEN DO

1:17:16WE MAKE THE CHOICE TO HAVE

1:17:17PERMANENT INFRASTRUCTURE VERSUS

1:17:18THE.

1:17:19FLEX POST WHICH ALWAYS I AND I

1:17:21COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND AS AN AT

1:17:23LARGE COUNCILOR LIKE TRADE OFFS

1:17:24AND HAVING THE CONVERSATIONS

1:17:26LIKE WHERE DOES IT MAKE THE

1:17:27MOST SENSE TO UM TO HAVE

1:17:31PERMEABLE STRUCTURES OR TO HAVE

1:17:33PERMANENT ONES.

1:17:33SO JUST WANTED TO UPLIFT THAT.

1:17:35UM.

1:17:39WE I THINK IT WAS BACK IN THE

1:17:40LATE 2000 LIKE 2016, 2019 WE

1:17:44HAD SOMETHING CALLED THE SAFEST

1:17:45DRIVER COMPETITION.

1:17:47WERE YOU CHIEF.

1:17:48ASKING WERE YOU HERE?

1:17:49>> CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT?

1:17:50IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU SAID

1:17:51THAT WE THAT THAT IS HELPFUL?

1:17:54UH, IT WAS A COLLABORATION

1:17:55BETWEEN THE MAYOR'S OFFICE

1:17:56OF NEURO MECHANICS AND UM, UH,

1:17:59THE STREETS CABINET AND I

1:18:00BELIEVE CAMERAS TELEMATICS.

1:18:01THE PERSON WHO LED THAT IS TWO

1:18:03PANELS FROM NOW, UH, CHRIS

1:18:05CARTER.

1:18:05UM, BUT IT IT HAD SOME ACTUAL

1:18:08DEMONSTRABLE IMPACTS ON UH ON

1:18:10THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE

1:18:12EFFORT AND REALLY LOOKED AT UM

1:18:14.

1:18:15DISTRACTED DRIVING.

1:18:16>> IT LOOKED AT UH, HARSH

1:18:18BRAKING, FAST CORNERING AND

1:18:19SPEEDS OVERALL AND I'M SURE

1:18:20CHRIS CAN I TALK MORE ABOUT THE

1:18:22UH, SPECIFICS BUT AS A GOOD

1:18:24OVERALL DRIVER EDUCATION

1:18:25OUTREACH EFFORT.

1:18:25THANK YOU AND SO MUCH OF IT TO

1:18:27LIKE I DO THINK THAT LIKE

1:18:30GENERALLY SPEAKING DESIGN IS

1:18:33INTENDED TO SOMEWHAT CHANGE

1:18:35PUBLIC BEHAVIOR AND HOW PEOPLE

1:18:37ARE DRIVING RIGHT BECAUSE

1:18:38EVERYONE THINKS THAT THEY'RE A

1:18:40SAINT WHILE DRIVING.

1:18:40AND SO THE DESIGN IS MEANT TO

1:18:42ENCOURAGE BETTER BEHAVIOR.

1:18:44UM, AND SO I THINK.

1:18:46SOMETIMES YOU DO THAT VIA

1:18:48DESIGN AND OR ALSO PUBLIC

1:18:50EDUCATION CAMPAIGNS OR JUST

1:18:51THINKING ABOUT HOW LIKE YEAH

1:18:53YEAH THE PUBLIC EDUCATION

1:18:54CAMPAIGN HOW IT COULD BE

1:18:55HELPFUL UH, MORE CAMPAIGNS JUST

1:18:58IN GENERAL.

1:18:58UM, I'VE ASKED THIS QUESTION

1:19:00BEFORE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

1:19:01CROSSWALKS BUT HOW DOES THE

1:19:02CITY DETERMINE.

1:19:04WHAT ARE THE SIGHTLINES THAT

1:19:05ARE NECESSARY EITHER BOTH THAT

1:19:06THOSE, UH CYCLING CROSSWALK

1:19:10CYCLING UM INTERSECTIONS THAT

1:19:11CAN BE DANGEROUS OR ALSO FOR

1:19:13PEDESTRIANS ON CROSSWALKS LIKE

1:19:14HOW DO YOU DETERMINE WHAT

1:19:15SIGHTLINES ARE NECESSARY TO

1:19:16PREVENT ACCIDENTS OR SO THAT

1:19:19YOU KNOW, DRIVERS CAN TURN

1:19:21SAFELY, BIKERS CAN RIDE SAFELY?

1:19:23SURE.

1:19:23>> UM SO THERE ARE.

1:19:24>> AND WHAT IS LIKE THE SCIENCE

1:19:25BEHIND THAT?

1:19:26THERE ARE STANDARDS THAT ARE IN

1:19:28PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE

1:19:29DAYLIGHTING.

1:19:30UH, ANY OF THOSE INTERSECTIONS

1:19:31AS WE'VE DISCUSSED BEFORE, PART

1:19:33OF THAT IS FOR VISIBILITY.

1:19:34UM, THAT IS ONE KEY WAY THAT WE

1:19:36CAN, UH, REDUCE THE PROBABILITY

1:19:37AND SEVERITY OF A CRASH TO MAKE

1:19:39SURE THAT ANY TURNING VEHICLE

1:19:40MAY BE ABLE TO SEE SOMEBODY WHO

1:19:42IS, UH, WHO IS CROSSING THE

1:19:43ROADWAY.

1:19:44UM, THERE ARE WAYS IN WHICH WE

1:19:46ARE LOOKING TO MAKE SURE THAT,

1:19:47UM, THOSE DAYLIGHT SPACES, UH,

1:19:50REMAIN AVAILABLE THROUGH SOME

1:19:51PHYSICAL STRUCTURE IS ONE

1:19:52OF THE THINGS WHICH WE'RE

1:19:53TRYING OUT ON HYDE PARK AVE IS

1:19:55LOOKING AT, UH, PRECAST OR CAST

1:19:57IN PLACE CONCRETE TO BE ABLE TO

1:19:58ENSURE THAT UH, THERE IS NOT A

1:20:01PARKED CAR IN THE DAYLIGHT

1:20:02AREA.

1:20:03UM, IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS

1:20:04WHICH WE WANT TO DO.

1:20:05>> TO FIGURE OUT WE DON'T HAVE

1:20:06THAT ANYWHERE IN THE IN THE

1:20:07CITY FOR.

1:20:08I BELIEVE I SHOULD KNOW

1:20:09SPECIFICALLY IF THERE'S OTHER

1:20:10PLACES WHERE WE'VE TRIED THAT.

1:20:11HAVE WE TRIED FLEXI POLES FOR

1:20:12DAYLIGHTING.

1:20:13SO WE'VE USED FLEX BUS FOR UH

1:20:14FOR DAYLIGHTING.

1:20:15UM THIS IS A LITTLE BIT MORE

1:20:16OF A ROBUST INTERVENTION WHICH

1:20:17WILL BE UH WHICH WILL BE

1:20:19POURING IF WE HAVE NOT POURED

1:20:21IT ALREADY WE WILL BE POURING

1:20:22IT BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER.

1:20:23>> 20TH TO THE.

1:20:24>> END OF OUR CONSTRUCTION.

1:20:25OKAY.

1:20:25>> JUST BECAUSE I DON'T BELIEVE

1:20:26LIKE THE NO STOPPING ANY TIME

1:20:29IN THE WHITE I JUST DON'T THINK

1:20:30THAT THAT WORKS UH, IN A LOT

1:20:32OF PLACES AROUND THE CITY.

1:20:33SO UM.

1:20:36SO WHEN.

1:20:37WE UM LIKE HOW DO WE HOW CAN WE

1:20:40THINK ABOUT USING THE CITY'S

1:20:41LIKE PURCHASING POWER TO

1:20:42EVALUATE, UH, WHAT CONTRACTORS

1:20:44ALLOW SUBCONTRACTORS TO DO

1:20:46BASICALLY ON THE ROAD.

1:20:47UM, SO I THINK THERE IS A LOT

1:20:49OF OPPORTUNITY THIS IS ONE

1:20:50OF THOSE THINGS UM, WHICH AS

1:20:51PART OF OUR VISION ZERO UPDATE

1:20:53WE ARE LOOKING SEE WHAT ARE THE

1:20:54OTHER WAYS IN WHICH THE CITY,

1:20:56YOU KNOW THROUGH ITS PURCHASING

1:20:57POWER OR THROUGH OTHER UM OTHER

1:20:59AUTHORITY MAY HAVE PERMITS FOR

1:21:01EXAMPLE.

1:21:02UM THAT IT CAN CONTINUE TO WORK

1:21:03WITH CONTRACTORS IN OUR CITY.

1:21:05SO THAT'LL BE AN ONGOING

1:21:06CONVERSATION.

1:21:07AND THE POINT HAVING THAT WITH

1:21:08THE COUNCIL.

1:21:08THANK YOU.

1:21:08THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:21:10THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:21:11UM I'M JUST GOING TO UM, SAY A

1:21:13COUPLE THINGS AND THEN UH,

1:21:15COUNCILOR RUBBER HAS A FEW LAST

1:21:16QUESTIONS AND THEN WE'LL MOVE

1:21:17TO THE NEXT PANEL.

1:21:18UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S BEEN A

1:21:20LOT SAID TODAY ABOUT UM, BIKE

1:21:23INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:21:24I THINK SIMPLY SAYING IT'S

1:21:26UNSAFE TO BE SOMEWHERE IS NOT

1:21:29ANYTHING ANY CITY LEADERS

1:21:31SHOULD SAY.

1:21:32LIKE I THINK THE IDEA THAT LIKE

1:21:33WE DON'T NEED TO MAKE

1:21:36EVERYWHERE SAFE IS A VERY

1:21:37HARMFUL IT'S VERY HARMFUL

1:21:39RHETORIC.

1:21:40SO FOR ME PERSONALLY, UM, AS

1:21:42SOMEONE WHO IS A A PASSIONATE

1:21:45UM EBR ELECTRIC BIKE USER UM

1:21:49I'VE HEARD THAT PEOPLE ARE

1:21:50CALLING THEM EVS NOW UM I THINK

1:21:53THAT AS SOMEONE WHO'S

1:21:54PASSIONATE ABOUT BEING ABLE TO

1:21:56GET AROUND THE CITY SAFELY, I

1:21:57JUST I NEED TO RESPOND TO THAT

1:21:59RHETORIC.

1:22:00UM I DO THINK UH, YOU KNOW, BUT

1:22:04THERE'S A LOT GOING ON BUT LIKE

1:22:06I RIDE, UH, AN ELECTRIC BLUE

1:22:08BIKE IN EVERY SINGLE CITY

1:22:09COUNCIL DISTRICT SO I DON'T

1:22:10NECESSARILY I ASKED MY FIRST

1:22:12QUESTIONING BASED ON YOU KNOW,

1:22:14BUT ME AS AN ELECTRIC BLUE BIKE

1:22:16MOSTLY SOMETIMES THAT MY

1:22:17REGULAR BIKE USER UM, I DON'T

1:22:20WANT ANYONE IN THE CITY SAYING

1:22:21THAT IT'S OKAY THAT IT'S UNSAFE

1:22:24TO TRAVEL SOMEWHERE UM OR THAT

1:22:26AND AGAIN WE'VE GOT A LOT

1:22:28OF UM, YOU KNOW, BIKEWAYS AND

1:22:30PATHWAYS THAT LIKE YOU KNOW,

1:22:32ARE WITHOUT YOU KNOW, CONFLICT

1:22:34.

1:22:34THE GOAL REALLY IS TO GET US

1:22:36WITHOUT CONFLICT EVERYWHERE.

1:22:37AND I DEFINITELY THINK LIKE I

1:22:39WOULD RATHER RIDE ON A ROAD

1:22:41THAN RIDE IN KENMORE SQUARE,

1:22:42YOU KNOW AND THERE ARE LIKE YOU

1:22:45KNOW, I'D RATHER RIDE IN A BACK

1:22:46BAY ALLEY NOW THAT THEY'VE BEEN

1:22:47RESURFACED RATHER THAN RIDING

1:22:49SOMETIMES ALONG MAIN

1:22:50THOROUGHFARES.

1:22:50AND THAT'S A CHOICE THAT I TAKE

1:22:52AS A BIKE RIDER BECAUSE THOSE

1:22:55ARE SAFER CHOICES FOR ME TO BE

1:22:57MAKING AND I THINK A LOT OF US

1:22:58ARE MAKING THOSE DECISIONS.

1:22:59BUT I DEFINITELY THINK AS CITY

1:23:01OFFICIALS WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO

1:23:02GET CURB TO CURB WHERE WE NEED

1:23:05TO BE GOING.

1:23:05AND SO THE IDEA THAT LIKE WE

1:23:07ONLY NEED TO PRIORITIZE CERTAIN

1:23:08SPACES UM, I WANT TO GET ON THE

1:23:11RECORD THE COST DIFFERENTIALS

1:23:13BETWEEN DIFFERENT PROTECTIVE

1:23:15INFRASTRUCTURE IF YOU ARE ABLE

1:23:17TO DO THAT.

1:23:18BUT LIKE UM WHAT IS THE COST

1:23:20DIFFERENCE BETWEEN UM A BOLLARD

1:23:24VERSUS UH A UM CASTING CONCRETE

1:23:28BIKE LANE?

1:23:29AND SO YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY I'VE

1:23:31HEARD A LOT ABOUT THE GREEN

1:23:32BEING KIND OF EXPENSIVE LIKE

1:23:34PUTTING THE GREEN DOWN LIKE I

1:23:36YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO SORT

1:23:38OF GET AND THEN OBVIOUSLY A UM

1:23:43UH SORRY SURFACE LIKE A UM

1:23:46PEDESTRIAN LEVEL.

1:23:47YEAH.

1:23:47BIKE LANE LIKE VERSUS ONE

1:23:49THAT'S ALREADY IN THE STREET

1:23:50AND THEN OBVIOUSLY A LOT

1:23:52OF TIMES WE'RE THROWING BIKE

1:23:54LANES IN WHERE IT'S LIKE THE

1:23:56LOWEST GRADE THEY'RE NOT GOING

1:23:58TO BE ABLE TO USE ALL SEASON

1:23:59LONG.

1:23:59UM THEY'RE RIGHT NEAR A DRAIN.

1:24:01THERE'S YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?

1:24:02LIKE SOMETIMES WE'RE BEING KIND

1:24:03OF PUT IN SITUATIONS WITH, YOU

1:24:06KNOW, NOT A GREAT SURFACE TO BE

1:24:07BIKING ON, YOU KNOW.

1:24:09AND SO A LOT OF TIMES I THINK

1:24:11PEOPLE ARE SAYING WHY DID WE

1:24:12PUT A BIKE LANE HERE?

1:24:13WE PUT A BIKE LANE THERE

1:24:13BECAUSE THAT WAS A SPACE THAT

1:24:15WAS AVAILABLE.

1:24:15BUT IT'S ALSO NOT THE BEST

1:24:17SPACE FOR THE BIKE LANE TO BE.

1:24:18SO COULD YOU KIND OF RESPOND TO

1:24:20SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS?

1:24:21UM, AND ALSO JUST THE PRICE

1:24:23DIFFERENTIAL.

1:24:24BETWEEN DIFFERENT TYPES OF BIKE

1:24:25INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:24:25OH AND I SHOULD BRING UP THE

1:24:26ZEBRAS.

1:24:27YEAH.

1:24:28SO HAPPY TO UM MAYBE FOLLOW UP.

1:24:30IT WAS GOING TO BE EASIER SORT

1:24:31OF ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES IT'S

1:24:32GOING TO BE MORE SPECIFIC SORT

1:24:33OF DIFFERENCES IN EXAMPLE

1:24:34PROJECTS BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS

1:24:35SOME NUANCE WITH EVERY CAPITAL

1:24:38PROJECT.

1:24:38UM, BUT WE CAN SORT OF FOLLOW

1:24:40UP WITH YOU.

1:24:41ON UM STRIPING FLEX POST THAT

1:24:44WAS PRECAST UH CAST IN PLACE

1:24:46CONCRETE VERSUS UM CYCLE TRACKS

1:24:48AND OTHER INTERVENTIONS THAT UH

1:24:49THAT WE PUT IN PLACE AND

1:24:51STRONGLY AGREE WITH UH YOUR

1:24:52OVERALL POINT THAT WE WANT TO

1:24:53MAKE SURE THAT REGARDLESS

1:24:55OF WHERE YOU'RE GOING FROM AND

1:24:56HEADING TO UH, THAT THE ROAD

1:24:58MUST BE SAFE AND THAT IS UH AND

1:25:00THAT IS THE WORK THAT WE ARE

1:25:01ENSURING.

1:25:02>> EVERY DAY.

1:25:02YEAH.

1:25:02AND DEFINITELY WAS NOT

1:25:04SUGGESTING THAT YOU SAID THAT

1:25:05BECAUSE I'VE NEVER HEARD YOU

1:25:06SAY THAT SHE WAS GOOD THAT LIKE

1:25:08IT'S OKAY THAT PEOPLE FEEL

1:25:09UNSAFE ON THE ROAD.

1:25:10YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE BEEN A BIG

1:25:11PART OF UM YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW,

1:25:14VISION 2030 AS THE FORMER CHIEF

1:25:15AND NOW THE INTERIM CHIEF.

1:25:16UM, I DID WANT TO ASK IF YOU

1:25:18HAD ANY, UM, 2030 VISION, YOU

1:25:21KNOW, IF YOU HAD ANY OF THOSE

1:25:22BOOKS LEFT BECAUSE I DO THINK

1:25:24MAKING SURE THAT EVERY

1:25:25COUNCILOR HAS ACCESS TO AND

1:25:27MAYBE IF THERE'S BEEN ANY

1:25:28UPDATE TO MAYBE A PIECE

1:25:30OF PAPER THAT SAYS THESE ARE

1:25:32WHAT'S BEEN COMPLETED, THIS IS

1:25:33WHAT'S IN PROGRESS.

1:25:35UM, LIKE ARE WE PLANNING TO DO

1:25:36AN UPDATE ON.

1:25:37UM SO WITH A LOT OF CREDIT TO

1:25:39THE CITY'S UH, PLANNING TEAM

1:25:41AND AND WE NEED TO UH AND THERE

1:25:44HAS BEEN SOME WORK ON WHAT A

1:25:47UPDATE TO UH, THE VISION ZERO

1:25:49PLAN WOULD BE THAT IS LESS AN

1:25:50UPDATE ON THE GOALS AND MORE AN

1:25:51UPDATE ON WHERE WE ARE AND THE

1:25:53TWO OF THE KEY THINGS THAT ARE

1:25:54PART OF I GO BOSTON 2031 WAS A

1:25:56SET OF METRICS, UM, THAT WE

1:25:58WERE TRACKING AND THE OTHER WAS

1:26:00PROGRESS ON UM SEE THE 58

1:26:02THINGS 5858 SPECIFIC PROJECTS

1:26:04AND POLICIES WE WERE LOOKING TO

1:26:06PUT IN PLACE.

1:26:07SO UM.

1:26:07WE CAN THAT IS SOMETHING WHICH

1:26:09WE ARE UH, WE ARE WORKING ON

1:26:10AND LOOK TO BE ABLE TO BUT UM,

1:26:12THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF BOOKS ARE

1:26:14IN VERY SHORT SUPPLY BUT.

1:26:15YEAH, JUST FROM WHAT I WAS JUST

1:26:16I WOULD LOVE ONE I WOULD LOVE

1:26:18ONE BUT JUST FROM MY

1:26:20PERSPECTIVE UM I THINK A TEN

1:26:22PAGE MEMO ON HERE'S WHAT'S

1:26:24BEING COMPLETED HERE WHEN IT

1:26:26HERE'S WHEN IT WAS STARTED

1:26:28HERE'S WHEN IT GOT COMPLETED,

1:26:29HERE'S WHAT WE DIDN'T DO AND

1:26:31HERE'S WHY WE DIDN'T DO IT.

1:26:33UM, I THINK THAT YOU KNOW, I'VE

1:26:36SEEN ONE OF THE BOOKS I'VE

1:26:37LOOKED AT ONE OF THE BOOKS I

1:26:38DON'T HAVE ONE IN MY OFFICE,

1:26:40BUT I DO THINK THE

1:26:42ADMINISTRATION HAS DONE A GOOD

1:26:43JOB OF CHECKING AND AND WORKING

1:26:45DOWN DOWN THAT LIST.

1:26:47UM, I THINK THAT THE CONNECTION

1:26:49POINTS CAN BE THE HARDEST TO

1:26:51GET DONE BECAUSE OFTEN TIMES

1:26:53THERE'S LIKE DIRECTOR BUTTERS

1:26:55WHO ARE LIKE NOT THIS BLOCK.

1:26:56I'VE EXPERIENCED IT AT THE ABBY

1:26:58BLOCK OF BEACON.

1:26:59YOU KNOW I'VE BEEN THERE BEEN

1:27:00IN THE TRENCHES.

1:27:01UM, BUT I DO THINK WE REALLY DO

1:27:03NEED TO JUST KIND OF GO WHERE

1:27:06ARE WE NOW?

1:27:06IT'S NOT 2030 YET, YOU KNOW?

1:27:09WHERE ARE WE NOW?

1:27:09WHAT HAVE WE DECIDED TO MOVE

1:27:11FORWARD ON WHAT WE'VE NOT

1:27:12DECIDED TO MOVE FORWARD ON?

1:27:14UM BUT I AM GRATEFUL TO THE

1:27:16WORK THAT'S BEING DONE NOW

1:27:17BECAUSE I DO THINK THERE'S A

1:27:19LOT OF FEDERAL MONEY THAT WE'RE

1:27:20ATTEMPTING TO GET OUT, YOU

1:27:21KNOW, PLANS AND GET OUT THE

1:27:22DOOR.

1:27:23SO I JUST WANT TO THANK ALL

1:27:24OF YOU AND YOUR TEAMS FOR ALL

1:27:25THE WORK THAT YOU DO.

1:27:26I DEFINITELY THINK I I HOPE TO

1:27:29NOT BE IT'S NOT IMPORTANT TO

1:27:31BRING PEOPLE TO THE COUNCIL.

1:27:33IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE WORK

1:27:34ACTUALLY GET DONE AND I DO FEEL

1:27:36THAT IN THE LAST UM AT LEAST

1:27:39THE LAST LIKE THREE MONTHS LIKE

1:27:41THE WORK IS BEING DONE IN MY

1:27:43DISTRICT AND THE WORK IS BEING

1:27:44DONE THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

1:27:45UM AND I'M EXCITED TO HEAR MORE

1:27:47UPDATES AS YOU GUYS MOVE

1:27:48FORWARD.

1:27:49UM SO UM I ALSO UM JUST WANT TO

1:27:53SAY THAT UH, THIS ISN'T EASY

1:27:55WORK AND THIS HAS BEEN VERY

1:27:57HARD ON THE TEAM THAT HAS BEEN

1:27:58DOING THIS WORK BECAUSE THEY'VE

1:27:59ALSO LOST A FRIEND IN THIS

1:28:00PROCESS.

1:28:01SO I JUST WANT TO YOU KNOW,

1:28:03IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT, UM

1:28:05,EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN DOING

1:28:06THIS WORK HAS ALSO BEEN TRYING

1:28:09TO MOVE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE

1:28:11WHILE THEY'VE BEEN MOURNING A

1:28:12FRIEND.

1:28:12AND I THINK THAT I JUST WANT

1:28:14TO, UM, SAY THANK YOU TO THEM

1:28:16FOR DOING THAT.

1:28:17SO, UM, COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU

1:28:19HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:28:21OKAY.

1:28:22>> THANK YOU.

1:28:22CHAIR.

1:28:22UH, JUST.

1:28:23>> A.

1:28:23COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS.

1:28:24IS THAT.

1:28:24>> TO TWO.

1:28:26STATISTICS OR TWO SETS.

1:28:28>> OF STATS?

1:28:29UM, YOU KNOW, SINCE 2014 I HAVE

1:28:33ROADWAY ROADWAY CRASHES HAVE.

1:28:35DECLINED IN SOMERVILLE BY 32%

1:28:37AND IN CAMBRIDGE BY 13%.

1:28:39BUT THEY'VE INCREASED IN BOSTON

1:28:41BY 40% UM, OVER THAT PERIOD I

1:28:45THINK ON AN ANNUAL BASIS AND

1:28:47THEN YOU KNOW, SINCE 2022

1:28:49SOMERVILLE HAS AS AS HAD ZERO

1:28:52FATAL CRASHES.

1:28:54UM, SO I GUESS YOU KNOW, WE'VE

1:28:57LOOKED AT CAMBRIDGE AND

1:28:58SOMERVILLE AND THEIR ORDINANCES

1:29:01,YOU KNOW, WHAT ABOUT THOSE

1:29:03ORDINANCES DO YOU THINK WE CAN

1:29:06BRING HERE?

1:29:07WHAT ABOUT THOSE YOU KNOW WHAT

1:29:08THE APPROACH WAS THIS IS NOT

1:29:10SOMERVILLE.

1:29:10WE'RE NOT IN CAMBRIDGE.

1:29:11LIKE WHAT ABOUT THOSE

1:29:13APPROACHES WON'T WORK HERE AND

1:29:14WHAT WILL.

1:29:15SURE.

1:29:16>> UM FIRST I APPRECIATE YOU

1:29:18JUST RECOGNIZING, UH, THE GOOD

1:29:21WORK WHICH IS HAPPENING IN A

1:29:22LOT OF DIFFERENT PLACES AND

1:29:23YOU'LL HEAR FROM BRAD RALSTON

1:29:24LATER AND THERE IS A LOT

1:29:24OF GOOD WORK WHICH IS HAPPENING

1:29:26UH, IN THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE.

1:29:27UM, WE ARE PUBLISHING SOME

1:29:30UPDATED UM, CROSS DISTRICTS AS

1:29:31PART OF OUR VISION ZERO UPDATE

1:29:32WHICH UH, WE CAN WE CAN SHARE

1:29:35WITH YOU SPECIFICALLY ON SORT

1:29:36OF TRENDS THAT WE'VE SEEN THE

1:29:37CHANGE WE'VE SEEN UM, IN SORT

1:29:39OF THE THREE YEAR WINDOW

1:29:41OF 2015 TO 2017 VERSUS THE LAST

1:29:42THREE YEARS WHICH UM DO SHOW UM

1:29:45SOME SIGNIFICANT AND POSITIVE

1:29:46UM, UH CHANGES.

1:29:48UM, TO YOUR QUESTION, I THINK

1:29:50THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO

1:29:52TO IMAGINE YOU'RE A CO-SPONSOR

1:29:53OF IN THAT UM, COUNCIL AND

1:29:55OTHERS HAVE SORT OF FOCUSED ON

1:29:56WHICH IS OF THE REPORTING

1:29:58OF WORK WE ARE DOING, UM, AS A

1:30:00CABINET ON OUR STREETS.

1:30:01AND I THINK THAT THAT IS UM

1:30:03PROVIDING THAT FLAHERTY OF WHY

1:30:06WE'RE DOING WHAT WE'RE DOING

1:30:07WHERE WE PLAN ON DOING IT AND

1:30:08WITH WITH WITH WHAT FUNDS AND

1:30:10WHAT TIMELINE IS A VALUABLE

1:30:11PART OF HOW WE CAN BOTH GET

1:30:13GOOD FEEDBACK UM, FROM UH FROM

1:30:16ADVOCATES AND FROM PARTNERS

1:30:17WHERE WE CAN COORDINATE AND I

1:30:19THINK THAT SORT OF FLAHERTY AND

1:30:21TRANSPARENCY IS A SORT OF GOOD

1:30:23THING TO BE ABLE TO DO AS A

1:30:25CITY.

1:30:25UH, AND SOMETHING WHICH I THINK

1:30:27IS SIMILAR TO SOME OF THE WORK

1:30:28THAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR PEER

1:30:29CITIES.

1:30:29>> YEAH.

1:30:30I GUESS IN TERMS OF THE FURTHER

1:30:32STEPS THAT THEY'VE TAKEN LIKE

1:30:33REQUIRING UH, YOU KNOW, OR AT

1:30:35LEAST CREATING A PRESUMPTION

1:30:36THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE, YOU

1:30:38KNOW, NEW INFRASTRUCTURE EVERY

1:30:39YEAR AND WITH NEW PROJECTS LIKE

1:30:41DO I YOU KNOW, CAN WE WORK

1:30:43TOWARD THAT GOAL OR DO YOU

1:30:45THINK, YOU KNOW, FOR REASONS

1:30:46THAT YOU WOULD KNOW THAT I

1:30:48DON'T THAT THAT WOULDN'T WORK

1:30:49HERE?

1:30:49I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR.

1:30:50OPINION IS.

1:30:51SURE.

1:30:51I THINK THAT IT IS I THINK

1:30:54THERE'S ABSOLUTELY THE

1:30:54EXPECTATION THAT EVERY YEAR WE

1:30:56ARE DELIVERING A BETTER BIKE

1:30:57NETWORK THAT EXISTS THERE

1:30:57BEFORE NO QUESTION.

1:30:58AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING

1:31:00WE ARE VERY FOCUSED ON.

1:31:02I THINK IT IS UH BEING SPECIFIC

1:31:03THOUGH ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO

1:31:05WITHIN OUR CAPITAL CONSTRAINTS

1:31:07OF WHAT THAT MAY LOOK LIKE IN

1:31:09ANY GIVEN STRETCH IN ANY GIVEN

1:31:11YEAR IS THE PART THAT IS IS A

1:31:13LITTLE BIT HARDER.

1:31:14SOME OF THIS WE WILL BE ABLE TO

1:31:15TO DO AND A LOT OF CREDIT TO

1:31:16THE TEAM WHO HAS BEEN WORKING

1:31:17ON THIS ALREADY.

1:31:18THINK ABOUT HOW AS PART OF OUR

1:31:19ANNUAL RESURFACING PROGRAM WE

1:31:20ARE NOT JUST ACHIEVING A STATE

1:31:22OF GOOD REPAIR BUT MODERNIZING

1:31:23THE ROADWAY.

1:31:24THAT IS A SET OF WORK THAT WE

1:31:26ARE.

1:31:28UM WE ARE FOCUSED ON AND I

1:31:29THINK IS IN PART RESPONSE TO

1:31:31THAT.

1:31:31THAT IS DIFFERENT THOUGH THAN A

1:31:32BIT TO COUNCILOR DURKIN'S POINT

1:31:36UM BUILDING OUT SIDEWALK LEVEL

1:31:38CYCLE TRACKS IN ANY ROAD THAT

1:31:39WE MAY BE TOUCHING AT ANY GIVEN

1:31:41YEAR, ANY PLACE IT IS ON THE

1:31:42BIKE NETWORK AND SO I WANT TO

1:31:43BE MINDFUL OF WHAT WE CAN WHAT

1:31:44WE CAN COMMIT TO.

1:31:45BUT I THINK THE IDEA

1:31:46OF COMMITTING TO SORT

1:31:47OF FLAHERTY ON WHAT WE'RE

1:31:48TRYING TO ACHIEVE, WHY WE'RE

1:31:49TRYING TO ACHIEVE IT AND WHAT

1:31:50WE CAN DO WITH OUR CAPITAL

1:31:51BUDGET IS A IS A VERY IMPORTANT

1:31:52FIRST STEP.

1:31:53AND I GUESS JUST MY MY LAST

1:31:55QUESTION UM, ON THAT POINT AS

1:31:58YOU'RE PLANNING THESE YOU KNOW

1:31:59,UH THESE CHANGES AND

1:32:02IMPROVEMENTS AS WE GO FORWARD

1:32:04IS NOT NOT ALL BIKE LANES ARE

1:32:08CREATED EQUALLY.

1:32:08YOU KNOW, THERE'S UH YOU KNOW,

1:32:09THERE'S THE THE SHEROES AND

1:32:11WHICH I YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SURE

1:32:13WHAT THE YOU KNOW, SEEM TO

1:32:15PROTECT ANYONE.

1:32:16>> I JUST.

1:32:17>> STAY IN THE YEAH.

1:32:17YEAH.

1:32:17OKAY.

1:32:18UM, YOU KNOW, CENTER STREET

1:32:19RIGHT OUTSIDE MY HOUSE WE'VE

1:32:20NOW HAVE A PAINTED BIKE LANE

1:32:22THAT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S BETTER

1:32:24THAN NOTHING.

1:32:24BUT YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK

1:32:26THAT'S THE PREFERRED WAY, BUT I

1:32:28WAS YOU'RE BUILDING THIS

1:32:30INFRASTRUCTURE GOING FORWARD.

1:32:31ARE YOU TREATING ALL THESE AS

1:32:33ON THE SAME LEVEL OR IS THERE

1:32:34YOU'RE TRYING TO HAVE MORE

1:32:36PROTECTED BIKE LANES OVER JUST

1:32:38THE PAINTED LINES LIKE HOW ARE

1:32:40YOU THINKING ABOUT SURE.

1:32:42UM, CERTAINLY IN GENERAL

1:32:45ENSURING THAT WE ARE MAKING THE

1:32:46STREETS SAFER EVERY TIME WE ARE

1:32:47GOING IN AND DOING THE WORK IS

1:32:48FUNDAMENTAL.

1:32:49WHAT THAT MAY LOOK LIKE IS

1:32:50GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT

1:32:51DIFFERENT STRETCH STRETCH WE'VE

1:32:52HAD A BIT OF A CONVERSATION ON

1:32:54CENTER STREET IN THE PAST THAT

1:32:55SORT OF THE DIMENSIONS THAT MAY

1:32:57BE IN THAT PARTICULAR STRETCH

1:32:59OF UH CENTER STREET MAY BE UH

1:33:02DIFFICULT FOR US TO SORT

1:33:03OF MAKE SOME OF THE UM SOME

1:33:04OF THE CHANGES LIKE A PARKING

1:33:05PROTECTED BIKE LANE AND

1:33:06OTHERWISE WE CAN DELIVER OTHER

1:33:07PARTS OF THE OF THE CITY.

1:33:10I I JUST SO SORRY I MEAN I

1:33:12THERE'S LIMITATIONS BUT IN THE

1:33:14LIKE IF WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE

1:33:15X NUMBER OF MILES OF BIKE LANE

1:33:17IS THAT ARE YOU LIKE GREAT YOU

1:33:18KNOW THAT COUNTS OR UH YEAH

1:33:20RIGHT.

1:33:21YEAH SO I DO THINK THAT.

1:33:24UM WHILE THESE ARE PHYSICAL

1:33:25CHANGES OF THE STREET AMOUNT

1:33:27OF THINGS THAT ARE VERY KEY

1:33:28METRICS FOR US IS HOW ARE WE

1:33:29SEEING CHANGES IN RIDERSHIP?

1:33:30ARE WE SEEING A REDUCTION IN

1:33:31CRASHES OR ARE WE ABLE TO

1:33:32CONNECT MORE PEOPLE ACROSS THE

1:33:33CITY OF BOSTON?

1:33:34I THINK THESE IT'S THAT THOSE

1:33:35ELEMENTS OF SAFETY, RIDERSHIP,

1:33:39CONNECTIVITY THAT ARE SOME

1:33:41OF THE KEY METRICS THAT WE'RE

1:33:42LOOKING AT BEYOND JUST SORT

1:33:44OF DISTANCE OR AMOUNT

1:33:45OF CHANGE.

1:33:46OKAY, I.

1:33:47APPRECIATE IT.

1:33:48>> THANK THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

1:33:48I WANT TO GET TO THE SECOND WE.

1:33:50>> JUST.

1:33:50GOT A COMMENT FROM UM

1:33:51COUNCILOR BOB ON THE SECOND

1:33:52CO-SPONSOR AND THEN WE'RE GOING

1:33:53TO MOVE TO THE SECOND PANEL

1:33:54BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF A LOT

1:33:56TO GET THROUGH FOR THAT.

1:33:57YEAH.

1:33:58>> UM THANK.

1:34:00>> YOU.

1:34:00MADAM CHAIR.

1:34:00AND JUST.

1:34:01>> WANTED TO SAY.

1:34:03THANK YOU TO THIS.

1:34:04TO THIS PANEL FOR THE WORK THAT

1:34:05YOU DO.

1:34:06UM, A LOT OF THE POINTS THAT

1:34:07SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES BROUGHT

1:34:09UP IS THE REASON WHY WE DID

1:34:10FOLLOW THAT ORDINANCE.

1:34:11UM, AND WE'RE WORKING VERY

1:34:12CLOSELY WITH YOUR TEAM TO MAKE

1:34:14SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULD

1:34:15GET THAT DONE THROUGH THE BY

1:34:16THE END OF THIS FISCAL.

1:34:18THIS LEGISLATIVE YEAR.

1:34:19AND WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY,

1:34:21UM, ADVOCATES THAT ALSO BELIEVE

1:34:23IN THAT.

1:34:24SO JUST THAT HEARING WILL BE ON

1:34:26NOVEMBER 19TH.

1:34:26UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT MY

1:34:28COLLEAGUES ARE THERE AS WELL.

1:34:29AND JUST.

1:34:30YOU KNOW, I ONE OF MY

1:34:31COLLEAGUES SAID THAT, YOU KNOW,

1:34:32THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE RIDING A

1:34:34BIKE UM, BLEW UP AND YOU KNOW,

1:34:36THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT PROJECTS

1:34:37LIKE THAT TO MAKE IT SAFER, TO

1:34:39MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE BUILDING

1:34:40THE PATHWAYS THAT MAKE OUR ROAD

1:34:41SAFER SO THAT WE AREN'T FEARING

1:34:43THAT THAT TYPE

1:34:44OF INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:34:45SO, UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY

1:34:46THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK AND

1:34:47YEAH, THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

1:34:49THANK YOU.

1:34:50YEAH.

1:34:50EVERYBODY'S COMING OUT AS A

1:34:51BIKE RIDER TODAY SO THANK YOU

1:34:53SO MUCH.

1:34:54WE'RE GOING TO SWITCH TO THE

1:34:55SECOND UM WE'RE GOING TO COME

1:34:56WE'RE GOING TO SWITCH TO THE

1:34:57SECOND UM PANEL.

1:34:59THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:35:02OKAY SO THE SECOND PANEL IF YOU

1:35:04CAN COME DOWN.

1:35:07AND I KNOW THERE'S A LOT

1:35:09OF PRESENTATIONS WE ARE GOING

1:35:10TO TRY TO KEEP EVERYONE TO

1:35:11THREE MINUTES.

1:35:12I DON'T KNOW IF YOU GUYS WANT

1:35:13TO HUDDLE AND FIGURE OUT WHAT

1:35:14YOU WANT TO DO WHAT YOU WANT TO

1:35:16DO BECAUSE I JUST DON'T I WANT

1:35:17TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ABLE TO

1:35:19ASK YOU QUESTIONS AS WELL.

1:35:29YOU KNOW JERRY'S HERE.

1:35:32OH NO IT'S THAT.

1:35:34TYPICALLY YEAH.

1:35:35YEAH I'M.

1:35:36HERE FOR.

1:35:40UM.

1:35:40>> OKAY.

1:35:45SO.

1:35:49PROBABLY WE COULD PROBABLY JUST

1:35:50GET STARTED I THINK.

1:35:51YEAH YEAH.

1:35:54IF EVERYBODY CAN JUST COME AND

1:35:55INTRODUCE THEMSELVES I'M

1:35:56SORRY THAT I HAVEN'T MET ALL

1:35:57OF YOU.

1:35:59UM, SO WE MAKE IT.

1:36:00TURN THEIR MICS ON.

1:36:04I JUST.

1:36:08OKAY, IF YOU GUYS WOULD JUST

1:36:09INTRODUCE YOURSELF DOWN THE

1:36:11LINE.

1:36:12UM, I'D LIKE TO THANK.

1:36:18MY MASTERS.

1:36:18OH, I'M THE STRATEGIC ORGANIZER

1:36:19FOR THE BOSTON CYCLISTS UNION.

1:36:21OKAY.

1:36:22>> GOOD AFTERNOON CHAIR.

1:36:23>> MY NAME IS BRAD ROSSEN.

1:36:24I SERVE THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE

1:36:25AS DIRECTOR OF MOBILITY.

1:36:26THANK YOU.

1:36:27>> CHRIS CARTER.

1:36:27>> I'M THE CHIEF INNOVATION

1:36:28OFFICER AT.

1:36:29>> THE MASSACHUSETTS.

1:36:29DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.

1:36:30THANK YOU.

1:36:31HI.

1:36:31>> I'M PAUL SIMS.

1:36:32I WAS THE CITY'S FIRST.

1:36:34BICYCLE PROGRAM.

1:36:35MANAGER A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO.

1:36:36THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:36:37AND I KNOW WE HAVE A NUMBER

1:36:39OF PRESENTATIONS.

1:36:39UH, IT LOOKS LIKE THE BOSTON

1:36:41CYCLISTS UNION ONE IS FIRST.

1:36:44UM, SO I'M JUST GOING TO ASK

1:36:45EVERYONE IF YOU COULD TRY TO

1:36:47KEEP IT TO THREE MINUTES.

1:36:48WE ALL DO HAVE YOUR MATERIALS

1:36:50SO AND WE WILL REVIEW THEM.

1:36:51SO, UM, JERRY, YOU HAVE THE

1:36:53FLOOR.

1:36:53OKAY.

1:36:54>> UM SO WHAT.

1:36:56I HAVE PREPARED TODAY IS JUST A

1:36:58QUICK OVERVIEW OF.

1:36:59I GUESS THAT'S A DUPLICATE.

1:37:01UM.

1:37:02>> OF A LOT OF THE BICYCLE

1:37:03NETWORK.

1:37:03PLAYING THAT THE CITY HAS DONE

1:37:05BECAUSE THE CITY HAS DONE A LOT

1:37:06OF BICYCLE NETWORK PLANNING

1:37:06SINCE MAYOR MENINO TOOK OFFICE

1:37:08AND WAS LIKE WE'RE A BIKE CITY

1:37:10NOW.

1:37:10WE'RE LIKE THE CAR IS NO LONGER

1:37:11KING.

1:37:12UM, SO IN 2013 UNDER MENINO

1:37:14THERE WAS A FALL 2013 BOSTON

1:37:16BIKE NETWORK PLAN UM IN 2017

1:37:18WHICH IS APPARENTLY THE PLAN

1:37:19THAT WE ARE STILL GOING OFF

1:37:21OF AS A CITY.

1:37:22UH, THE CITY RELEASED GO BOSTON

1:37:232030 AND THEY RELEASED TWO

1:37:25PAGES BASICALLY OF WHERE WE ARE

1:37:26GOING TO PRIORITIZE BETTER

1:37:28BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE

1:37:29CITY OF BOSTON.

1:37:30UM.

1:37:32>> A COUPLE YEARS AGO UNDER

1:37:34MAYOR WU THERE IS ALSO A THREE

1:37:35YEAR BICYCLE NETWORK ACTION

1:37:37PLAN THAT UH, RESULTED IN SOME

1:37:42BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE BEING

1:37:42BUILT, SOME PROJECTS BEING

1:37:44IMPLEMENTED.

1:37:44BUT THE FULL PLAN WAS NOT EVER

1:37:47FULLY CONSTRUCTED.

1:37:48THERE'S ALSO BEEN A LOT

1:37:50OF BICYCLE NETWORK PLANNING

1:37:51DONE ACTUALLY NOT UNDER THE

1:37:53TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT BUT

1:37:53ALSO UNDER THE BOSTON PLANNING

1:37:55DEPARTMENT.

1:37:56SO WE HAVE NEIGHBORHOOD PLANS

1:37:57FOR EXAMPLE FOR CHINESE I SHOW

1:37:59YOU THERE'S A SOUTH BOSTON

1:38:00TRANSPORTATION ACTION PLAN.

1:38:01THERE'S A BIKE NETWORK PLAN FOR

1:38:02EAST BOSTON UNDER PLAN EAST

1:38:04BOSTON.

1:38:06UM, THERE'S A 2021 ALLSTON

1:38:07MOBILITY STUDY WHICH UH

1:38:09COUNCIL PRESIDENT BREADON

1:38:10MENTIONED AND THEN 2023

1:38:11CHARLESTOWN.

1:38:12THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE LIST.

1:38:13I'M SURE THERE ARE OTHER PLANS

1:38:14AS WELL, BUT I JUST WANT TO

1:38:15POINT OUT THAT A LOT

1:38:16OF PLANNING HAS BEEN DONE AND

1:38:18SOME OH HERE'S CONNECT DOWNTOWN

1:38:20THIS IS UNDER BOSTON

1:38:21TRANSPORTATION FOR ME IT'S THE

1:38:22REASON WHY WE HAVE THE PUBLIC

1:38:23GARDEN BIKE LANES TODAY WHICH

1:38:25ARE AMONG THE MOST HEAVILY

1:38:26TRAVELED IN THE CITY.

1:38:28UM, SO.

1:38:30ALL OF THESE PLANS RESULTED IN

1:38:31AND ALSO IN BRIGHTON THEY HAVE

1:38:33RESULTED IN SOME PROGRESS.

1:38:35SO FOR EXAMPLE THE AUSTIN BRAIN

1:38:37MOBILITY SO THEY ACTUALLY IT

1:38:38WAS THERE'S A SUBSET ANOTHER

1:38:40STUDY UM UNDER WHERE LIKE THE

1:38:42WESTERN NORTH BIKE LANES WERE

1:38:43RECOMMENDED AND THEN ENDED UP

1:38:44BEING BUILT THE NORTH BEACON

1:38:45STREET BIKE LANES ENDED UP

1:38:46BEING BUILT AND WERE

1:38:47RECOMMENDED AS A PART OF THE

1:38:48OLSEN BRAIN MOBILITY.

1:38:49SO WE DO SOMETIMES ACTUALLY USE

1:38:51THESE PLANS AND THIS I'M SURE

1:38:53THE CITY LOOKS AT THESE ARE UM

1:38:55TRANSPORTATION PARTNER PLACES

1:38:56TO DECIDE WHERE TO PRIORITIZE

1:38:58BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE.

1:38:59BUT EVIDENTLY THERE'S A LOT

1:39:01OF WORK TO BE DONE AND THERE'S

1:39:03A LOT OF WORK THAT CAN BE DONE

1:39:04RIGHT NOW WE HAVE THESE PLANS

1:39:06WE SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTING THESE

1:39:07PLANS.

1:39:08I KNOW THAT THERE'S BUDGET

1:39:09CONSTRAINTS WHICH IS MY THIRD

1:39:10POINT.

1:39:10SO WE NEED TO MAXIMIZE THE USE

1:39:11OF THAT BUDGET AND THAT MEANS

1:39:12USING QUICK BUILD MATERIALS NOW

1:39:14AND WHEN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

1:39:17IS A BIT MORE WILLING TO

1:39:19PROVIDE MONEY FOR THESE

1:39:20PROJECTS, WE CAN MAKE.

1:39:22THOSE IMPROVEMENTS PERMANENT.

1:39:23UM, A BIG PART OF THIS IS ALSO

1:39:25PROGRAMING WHICH I WAS ONCE A

1:39:27YOUTH BICYCLING INSTRUCTOR.

1:39:28I CAN TELL YOU THAT A PART

1:39:30OF IMPLEMENTING BICYCLING AS A

1:39:32PART OF A CITY'S TRANSPORTATION

1:39:33PLAN ALSO.

1:39:34INCLUDES CULTURAL CHANGE AND

1:39:35PROGRAMING.

1:39:36AND FINALLY THE PLANNING THAT

1:39:38HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE IS NOT

1:39:39ENOUGH.

1:39:40NOT ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORHOODS

1:39:41HAVE BICYCLE NETWORK PLANS YET

1:39:43AND THERE IS NO CLEAR VISION IN

1:39:45MY OPINION FOR WHERE THE CITY

1:39:47IS GOING AND NO CLEAR

1:39:48COMMITMENT.

1:39:49MOST IMPORTANTLY THERE'S NO

1:39:50IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FROM WHAT I

1:39:53CAN TELL TO BUILD OUT THE

1:39:54BICYCLE INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING

1:39:56THAT HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE.

1:39:57UM AND.

1:39:58I WILL END THERE.

1:40:00JERRY THAT WAS ACTUALLY REALLY

1:40:02IMPRESSIVE THAT YOU KEPT IT TO

1:40:03THREE MINUTES.

1:40:04SO THANK YOU SO MUCH OKAY NEXT

1:40:06WE'RE AND AND AGAIN LIKE I'M

1:40:08NOT GOING TO HOLD IT TO RIGID

1:40:09BUT I JUST WANT MY I MY

1:40:11COLLEAGUES TO BE ABLE TO ASK

1:40:12EVERYONE QUESTIONS SO GO AHEAD.

1:40:14UNDERSTOOD CHAIR.

1:40:15UM WE APPRECIATE THE CITY

1:40:17COUNCIL'S INVITATION.

1:40:17>> I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER.

1:40:18>> YOUR QUESTIONS ABOUT

1:40:19SOMERVILLE'S EXPERIENCE IN OUR

1:40:20VISION.

1:40:20ZERO JOURNEY.

1:40:21>> BUT I WILL QUICKLY NOTE THE

1:40:22SOMERVILLE.

1:40:22STORY WHICH IS BACK TO AT LEAST

1:40:242013 WHEN OUR MAYOR AND OUR

1:40:26CITY COUNCIL COLLABORATED TO

1:40:27COMPLETELY.

1:40:28TO UM, PRODUCE A COMPLETE

1:40:29STREETS ORDINANCE.

1:40:31IN 2016, CHAIR SOMERVILLE

1:40:32DECIDED TO FOLLOW BOSTON AND

1:40:34CAMBRIDGE IN MAKING A FORMAL

1:40:35VISION ZERO DECLARATION.

1:40:36ELECTED OFFICIALS, CITY STAFF

1:40:38AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO STUDY

1:40:39THE BEST PRACTICES LOCALLY AND

1:40:40NATIONALLY.

1:40:41>> I'M SORRY IF YOU JUST WANT

1:40:42TO PAUSE LET'S GET YOUR I DON'T

1:40:44THINK WE HAVE YOUR THING UP YET

1:40:46SO LET ME JUST MAKE.

1:40:47>> SURE THAT.

1:40:50I DO YOU HAVE A PRESENT HERE.

1:40:51OH SORRY I WAS CONFUSED.

1:40:52SORRY.

1:40:53GO AHEAD I HAVE ALL OF THESE

1:40:55OTHER PRESENTATIONS I WAS OKAY

1:40:56GO AHEAD.

1:40:58MR CHAIR.

1:40:58>> ELECTED OFFICIAL CITY STAFF

1:41:00AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS STUDY THE

1:41:01BEST PRACTICES NATIONALLY AND

1:41:02LOCALLY AND IN 2017 WE ADOPTED

1:41:04OUR VISION ZERO DECLARATION.

1:41:06WE THEN LAUNCHED INTO A MULTI

1:41:07YEAR COMMUNITY PROCESS TO

1:41:08DESIGN OUR ACTION PLAN FOR

1:41:10VISION ZERO IMPLEMENTATION.

1:41:11WE IDENTIFIED HIGH RISK

1:41:13LOCATIONS IN BOTH QUANTITATIVE

1:41:14ANALYSIS AND RESIDENT FEEDBACK.

1:41:16WE LISTED THE TYPES OF CHANGES

1:41:17TO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT WE

1:41:18NEEDED AND TIMELINES FOR THEIR

1:41:19COMPLETION.

1:41:20WE WERE MOVING IN THE RIGHT

1:41:21DIRECTION BUT TOO SLOWLY.

1:41:23IN 2019 SOMERVILLE EXPERIENCED

1:41:24THE WORST KIND OF REALITY CHECK

1:41:26THREE FATAL PEDESTRIAN CRASHES

1:41:28INVOLVING HIT AND RUN

1:41:29COLLISIONS IN MARKED CROSSWALKS

1:41:30ALL AT WELL KNOWN HIGH RISK

1:41:32LOCATIONS.

1:41:33OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND OUR

1:41:34COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE RIGHTLY

1:41:36OUTRAGED AND DEMANDED MORE FROM

1:41:37THE CITY, MORE FLAHERTY ON

1:41:39PROJECT PRIORITIZATION.

1:41:40MORE RESOURCE ALLOCATION, MORE

1:41:43ON THE GROUND OUTREACH, MORE

1:41:45STAFFING, MORE

1:41:46INTERDEPARTMENTAL BUYING, MORE

1:41:47CAPITAL AND OPERATING DOLLARS

1:41:48TO MAKE OUR STREETS SAFER.

1:41:50SO STAFF WERE THEN DIRECTED TO

1:41:51BEGIN DEPLOYING NEW TRAFFIC

1:41:52CALMING MEASURES LIKE SPEED

1:41:54HUMPS WHICH WE NEVER USED

1:41:55BEFORE.

1:41:55CITY STAFF WERE DIRECTED TO

1:41:57CREATE A CITYWIDE BICYCLE

1:41:58NETWORK PLAN TO HELP INCREASE

1:41:59PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, INSTITUTE A

1:42:02ROBUST MULTI-YEAR PIPELINE

1:42:04PROJECTS FROM OUR NATIONAL

1:42:05PEERS LIKE OAKLAND AND AUSTIN.

1:42:06WE LEARNED ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE

1:42:08OF USING RECURRING FUNDING

1:42:10SOURCES RATHER THAN ONE TIME

1:42:11CAPITAL OUTLAYS TO FUND OUR

1:42:13STREET PROJECTS.

1:42:13SOMERVILLE TRANSFORMED OUR

1:42:15ANNUAL CHAPTER 90 MAINTENANCE

1:42:17PROGRAM TO EMPHASIZE OUR HIGH

1:42:18CRASH NETWORKS AND BUILD RAISED

1:42:20CROSSWALKS AND CURB EXTENSIONS

1:42:22AT SCALE.

1:42:23WE BUILT STANDARD OPERATING

1:42:25PROCEDURES FOR COMMUNITY

1:42:25ENGAGEMENT THAT CREATED A

1:42:26PREDICTABLE 14 TO 18 MONTH

1:42:28COMMUNITY PROCESS FOR MAJOR

1:42:30PROJECTS.

1:42:30THESE SOPS HELPED SOMERVILLE

1:42:31MANAGE DESIGN DEVELOPMENT

1:42:32SCHEDULES AIMED AT ISSUING A

1:42:35NEW ANNUAL CONTRACT EACH WINTER

1:42:36WHEN BIDS WERE COMPETITIVE AND

1:42:38WE HAD GOOD CONTRACTORS HUNGRY

1:42:39TO WORK IN 2023 OUR MAYOR, OUR

1:42:41CITY COUNCIL AND OUR COMMUNITY

1:42:42MEMBERS CHALLENGED OUR STAFF TO

1:42:43TAKE THE NEXT STEP WHICH WAS

1:42:45DEVELOPING AND ADOPTING A

1:42:46STRONGER ORDINANCE THAT WOULD

1:42:47IMPLEMENT TRANSPARENCY

1:42:48IMPROVEMENTS, REINFORCE OUR

1:42:49PROJECT PIPELINE SOMERVILLE

1:42:51STUDY CAMBRIDGE AND WE DECIDED

1:42:52THAT OUR ORDINANCE WOULD FOCUS

1:42:53ON MULTIMODAL ACCESS AND SAFETY

1:42:55.

1:42:55IT WOULD ESTABLISH FIRM TARGETS

1:42:57FOR ACCESSIBLE SIDEWALK

1:42:58RECONSTRUCTION, TRANSIT

1:42:59PRIORITY INFRASTRUCTURE,

1:43:00NEIGHBORHOOD TRAFFIC CALMING

1:43:01AND SEPARATED BIKE FACILITIES.

1:43:03OUR SAFE STREETS ORDINANCE WAS

1:43:05ADOPTED IN 2024 AND IT HAS BEEN

1:43:07A GAME CHANGER IN TERMS

1:43:08OF SCALING OUR WORK.

1:43:09I'LL FINISH WITH A FEW QUICK

1:43:11STATISTICS.

1:43:11SINCE OUR MOMENT OF CRISIS IN

1:43:132019, SOMERVILLE HAS ACHIEVED A

1:43:16500% INCREASE IN ANNUAL TRAFFIC

1:43:18CALMING PRODUCTION A 300%

1:43:20INCREASE IN SEPARATED BIKE LANE

1:43:22MILEAGE, DOUBLING OF OUR ANNUAL

1:43:24REPAVING WORK, 37% REDUCTION IN

1:43:26ALL CRASHES, 50% REDUCTION IN

1:43:29SEVERE INJURY CRASHES AND ZERO

1:43:31FATAL COLLISIONS SINCE 2022

1:43:33WE'RE STILL ON OUR JOURNEY.

1:43:35WE'VE REDUCED RISK BUT WE'VE

1:43:36NOT ELIMINATED IT.

1:43:36WE'VE GROWN OUR FINANCIAL AND

1:43:38ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY.

1:43:39BUT THE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND

1:43:40FEDERAL POLICY SHIFTS HAVE

1:43:41CREATED CHALLENGES.

1:43:42WE APPROACH OUR WORK WITH

1:43:43HUMILITY.

1:43:43WE'RE LEARNING.

1:43:44WE'RE GROWING.

1:43:46WE'RE PROUD OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN

1:43:47ABLE TO DO BUT THERE'S SO MUCH

1:43:48AHEAD SO I'LL BE LOOKING

1:43:49FORWARD TO ANSWERING YOUR

1:43:49QUESTIONS.

1:43:50THANK YOU.

1:43:50THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.

1:43:51I DO LOVE WALKING THROUGH

1:43:53SOMERVILLE NOW AND SO THANK

1:43:55YOU.

1:43:55AND THAT'S JUST THE PROOF IS IN

1:43:57THE PUDDING YOU KNOW RIGHT IF

1:43:58DO PEOPLE FEEL SAFE UM THANK

1:44:00YOU.

1:44:00AND UM NEXT WE'RE GOING TO HEAR

1:44:03FROM CHRIS.

1:44:04I THINK THAT'S YOUR PUBLIC

1:44:05RECORD.

1:44:07UH OH PETER.

1:44:08WAS THAT PETER HIS FIRST YEAR?

1:44:10IS HE ONLINE?

1:44:12OH, OKAY.

1:44:13WE'RE GOING TO GO TO HIM LAST

1:44:14THOUGH, SO IF WE COULD GO TO.

1:44:15YES I AM I AM HERE ONLINE.

1:44:18OKAY THANK YOU.

1:44:19WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM THE

1:44:20FOLKS IN PERSON AND THEN WE'LL

1:44:22GO WE'LL LOOP BACK TO YOU UM

1:44:24CHRIS.

1:44:26OKAY.

1:44:27>> UH, CHAIR, THANK YOU FOR.

1:44:28INVITING US.

1:44:29TO SPEAK AT THIS, UH, HEARING

1:44:31TODAY.

1:44:31UM, CHRIS CARTER.

1:44:32CHIEF INNOVATION OFFICER.

1:44:33>> AT MASSDOT, ROSLINDALE

1:44:34RESIDENT FORMER COLLEAGUE.

1:44:35OF LOUISA.

1:44:37UM, WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT

1:44:38IS, UH.

1:44:38LARGE VEHICLE.

1:44:39SAFETY AND SOME OF THE WORK

1:44:40THAT'S BEEN GOING ON AT THE

1:44:41COMMONWEALTH.

1:44:43I'M SORRY IF YOU COULD PULL UP.

1:44:45UM.

1:44:45THERE WE GO.

1:44:46OKAY.

1:44:47THANK YOU.

1:44:47ONCE AGAIN.

1:44:48UM.

1:44:48>> I'M GOING TO FOCUS IN ON, UH

1:44:50,IN THE SAFE SYSTEMS APPROACH.

1:44:52THIS IS SORT OF HOW WE MOVE

1:44:53TOWARDS ZERO FATALITIES ON OUR

1:44:55ROADWAYS.

1:44:55I'M GOING TO TALK JUST ABOUT

1:44:57SAFE VEHICLES TODAY.

1:44:59UH, WE HAVE A DISPROPORTIONATE

1:45:01RESPONSIBILITY.

1:45:02>> OF.

1:45:02TRUCKS FOR FATAL CRASHES ON OUR

1:45:03ROADWAYS.

1:45:04SO THEY MAKE UP ABOUT 4% OF THE

1:45:06VEHICLES REGISTERED IN

1:45:07MASSACHUSETTS.

1:45:08THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 10%

1:45:09OF THE PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE

1:45:10FATALITIES.

1:45:11THIS IS MASSACHUSETTS DATA THAT

1:45:13WE'RE LOOKING AT.

1:45:13UM, GOOD NEWS IS BOSTON HAS

1:45:16DONE A LOT OF WORK HERE, RIGHT.

1:45:18WAS THE FIRST CITY IN THE

1:45:19COUNTRY TO ADOPT AN ORDINANCE

1:45:20THAT PUT SAFETY DEVICES ON

1:45:22TRUCKS.

1:45:22THE STATE FOLLOWED WITH A LAW

1:45:24BUILT ON THAT ORDINANCE ABOUT

1:45:26SEVEN YEARS LATER.

1:45:26UH, THAT REQUIRES THESE TO BE

1:45:29ON STATE OWNED, LEASED AND

1:45:30CONTRACTED VEHICLES THAT SIDE

1:45:32GUARDS CROSSOVER MIRRORS,

1:45:33CONVEX MIRRORS AND BACKUP

1:45:34CAMERAS.

1:45:35THE TWO THINGS IN YELLOW ARE

1:45:36THINGS THAT EXIST IN THE STATE

1:45:37LAW UM, BUT ARE SLIGHTLY

1:45:38DIFFERENT IN THE CITY

1:45:39ORDINANCE.

1:45:39THERE'S NOT A BACKUP CAMERA

1:45:41REQUIREMENT IN THE CITY.

1:45:41ORDINANCE AND THE SIDE GUARD

1:45:43SPECIFICATION IN THE STATE LAW

1:45:44IS TIED TO THE US DOT VOLPI

1:45:46BEST PRACTICE SPECIFICATION.

1:45:47THIS IS MOSTLY BECAUSE BOSTON

1:45:49WAS THE FIRST MOVER IN THAT

1:45:50SPECIFICATION DIDN'T EXIST AT

1:45:51THE TIME.

1:45:52BUT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT VISION

1:45:53WHAT THE DRIVER CAN SEE

1:45:56EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN GREEN

1:45:57THERE IS WHAT A DRIVER CAN SEE

1:45:58WITH THEIR OWN EYES.

1:45:59THE PINK IS A BLIND ZONE AND

1:46:01WHAT WE CALL INDIRECT VISION IS

1:46:03WHAT THEY SEE WITH A CAMERA OR

1:46:04A MIRROR.

1:46:05AND WHY.

1:46:06DIRECT VISION MATTERS IS

1:46:07BECAUSE DRIVERS HAVE UP TO A

1:46:0850% FASTER REACTION TIME WHEN

1:46:10THEY CAN SEE SOMETHING WITH

1:46:11THEIR OWN EYES NOT RELYING ON A

1:46:13CAMERA OR MIRROR TO DO SO.

1:46:15AND THAT REALLY TALKS TO THE

1:46:17DESIGN OF THAT VEHICLE.

1:46:18SO I'M GOING TO TALK THROUGH

1:46:20JUST THREE QUICK FINDINGS

1:46:21OF RESEARCH AND THE THREE

1:46:21THINGS UH ACTION STEPS OUT

1:46:23OF THAT WE CLIMBED IN AND OUT

1:46:24OF 60 DIFFERENT VEHICLES.

1:46:25THE ONE THING I CAN TELL YOU IS

1:46:28THAT DOWNSIZING A VEHICLE

1:46:29WHENEVER YOU CAN, THE SMALLEST

1:46:31POSSIBLE VEHICLE FOR THE JOB

1:46:32THAT YOU NEED IS WHAT YOU

1:46:34SHOULD PUT INTO A FLEET AND

1:46:35ONTO THE ROADWAY.

1:46:36THEY HAVE BETTER VISIBILITY.

1:46:37THE SECOND FINDING IS THAT

1:46:39DRIVERS IN THOSE HEAVY DUTY

1:46:40VEHICLES REALLY CAN'T SEE MUCH.

1:46:42THEY CAN'T SEE UH, PEOPLE THAT

1:46:44ARE IN CROSSWALKS, THEY CAN'T

1:46:46SEE 50% OF THOSE HEAVY DUTY

1:46:47VEHICLES COULDN'T SEE A CHILD

1:46:48ANYWHERE IN THAT CROSSWALK.

1:46:4980% OF THEM CAN'T SEE AN ADULT

1:46:51IN A BIKE LANE WHEN YOU MEASURE

1:46:53FOR THAT.

1:46:53SO IF YOU THINK THEY CAN SEE

1:46:55YOU ODDS ARE THEY PROBABLY

1:46:56CAN'T.

1:46:57THE LAST ONE IS A LITTLE BIT

1:46:59NUANCED BUT DRIVER VISIBILITY

1:47:01IS ACTUALLY GETTING WORSE.

1:47:02AND WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME

1:47:03OF THESE MEDIUM DUTY VEHICLES.

1:47:03THESE ARE SORT OF THOSE FOR

1:47:05LARGE SIZE SORT OF FORD PICKUPS

1:47:06OUT THERE.

1:47:07UH IT'S A DECREASE OVER TIME.

1:47:09SO THE NEWER MODELS ARE

1:47:10ACTUALLY WORSE THAN THEY WERE

1:47:11BEFORE.

1:47:12NOT GOOD.

1:47:13UM WE CARE ABOUT THIS BECAUSE

1:47:15WE KNOW THAT HIGHER VISION

1:47:16TRUCKS AND THIS IS LOOKING AT

1:47:18AGAIN MASSACHUSETTS DATA UH, IT

1:47:20CORRELATES WITH FEWER CRASHES

1:47:21ABOUT A 23% REDUCTION AND FATAL

1:47:25CRASHES FOR PEDESTRIAN AND

1:47:26CYCLIST WHEN YOU WERE TALKING

1:47:27ABOUT A HIGHER VISION TRUCK

1:47:28COMPARED TO A LOW VISION

1:47:29VEHICLE.

1:47:30SO WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT THAT?

1:47:32THREE QUICK STEPS MAYBE THE

1:47:34CITIES AND TOWNS CAN TAKE.

1:47:35THE FIRST ONE IS LEADING BY

1:47:37EXAMPLE.

1:47:37BOSTON IS DOING A GREAT JOB

1:47:38WITH THIS SAFER PUBLIC FLEETS

1:47:41MEASURE YOUR FLEET FOR VISION.

1:47:42MATCH THE COUNTERMEASURES YOU

1:47:44NEED TO ADDRESS THOSE GAPS AND

1:47:46THEN SLOWLY MIGRATE AWAY FROM

1:47:48POOR VISION VEHICLES.

1:47:49IF YOU CAN BUILD THAT INTO YOUR

1:47:51PROCUREMENT PROCESS OF BUYING

1:47:53HIGH VISION CABS.

1:47:55THE SECOND ONE IS AROUND

1:47:57POLICIES FOR COMMERCIAL

1:47:58VEHICLES REQUIRING THEM TO HAVE

1:48:00SAFETY FEATURES ON THEIR

1:48:01VEHICLES LIKE WHAT'S IN THE

1:48:03BOSTON ORDINANCE OR ADDITIONAL

1:48:04FEATURES THAT ARE SORT OF FIT

1:48:05FOR THAT AND THEN MAKING SURE

1:48:07THAT YOU'RE EDUCATING THOSE

1:48:08COMMERCIAL PARTNERS ON THAT,

1:48:10INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS ON THAT

1:48:11YOU'RE AUDITING COMPLIANCE,

1:48:12YOU'RE ENFORCING THAT

1:48:13COMPLIANCE.

1:48:13AND THE LAST THING IS AROUND

1:48:15EDUCATION GENERALLY FOR THE

1:48:16PUBLIC THIS IS ONE SMALL

1:48:17EXAMPLE.

1:48:18BUT MASSDOT HAS A TRUCK SIDE

1:48:20BUCKET THAT WE ROLL OUT TO

1:48:21TOUCH A TRUCK EVENTS AVAILABLE

1:48:22TO ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY TO

1:48:24SORT OF LEVERAGE THAT KIT THAT

1:48:25EXISTS AND LET FAMILIES KNOW

1:48:27YOU KNOW WHERE THAT DRIVER CAN

1:48:28SEE YOU GET INTO THE TRUCK CAB

1:48:29AND ACTUALLY SEE IF YOU CAN

1:48:30SPOT YOUR CHILD IN THAT

1:48:31CROSSWALK OR NOT.

1:48:32UH, THERE'S A WHOLE BUNCH MORE

1:48:34DATA TO LOOK AT UH, AND

1:48:35FINDINGS IN THAT REPORT IF YOU

1:48:36WANT TO THAT'S A QR CODE AND I

1:48:38CAN LEAVE A PHYSICAL COPY WITH

1:48:40YOU.

1:48:40IT'S NOT A GO BOSTON 2030 PLAN

1:48:41BUT IT'S VERY SIMPLE.

1:48:42THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:48:44UM, THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR

1:48:45WORK.

1:48:45UM, AND THIS WAS REALLY HELPFUL

1:48:46AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME

1:48:48PUT INTO THIS BECAUSE I THINK

1:48:49THIS IS VERY HELPFUL TO THE

1:48:51COUNCIL.

1:48:52UM, GREAT.

1:48:53UM, PAUL.

1:48:54SURE.

1:48:54>> UM, I.

1:48:55>> HAVE SOME SLIDES.

1:48:56OH.

1:48:56PERFECT UP.

1:48:57SOMEWHERE OR.

1:48:58YEAH, THAT'S THE GREEN ONE.

1:49:00YES.

1:49:01YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

1:49:03UM, OKAY.

1:49:06UM THAT.

1:49:07ME SEE?

1:49:08ALL RIGHT.

1:49:09OKAY.

1:49:09WELL I ALSO.

1:49:10WANTED TO TALK ABOUT.

1:49:11TRUCKS AND AND BICYCLISTS.

1:49:13AND WE'VE HEARD HOW THEY'RE A

1:49:15MAJOR PART OF CRASHES BUT

1:49:16ACTUALLY I THINK FOR URBAN

1:49:17AREAS LIKE BOSTON IT'S MORE

1:49:18LIKE HALF OF FATAL COLLISIONS

1:49:21INVOLVE TRUCKS.

1:49:21SO THIS IS A BIG THING.

1:49:23UM, WHAT DO CYCLISTS NEED TO

1:49:25KNOW?

1:49:26NEVER PASS A TRUCK ON THE

1:49:27RIGHT.

1:49:27BEING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF A

1:49:28TRUCK IS IN THE DANGER ZONE.

1:49:31THIS IS UM AND WHY?

1:49:34UM, WELL, TRUCKS NEED TO MAKE

1:49:35REALLY WIDE TURNS AND OFTEN THE

1:49:38CAB TRACKS, UH, DIFFERENTLY

1:49:40THAN THE THAN THE TRAILER AND

1:49:42LIKE A BIG TRUCK LIKE IN THIS

1:49:44DIAGRAM, IF THE BICYCLIST IS ON

1:49:45THE RIGHT SIDE THEY MAY

1:49:46SUDDENLY FIND THE SIDE OF THE

1:49:49OF THE TRAILER KNOCKING THEM

1:49:50OVER AND.

1:49:51>> THE.

1:49:51WORST CASE FALLING AND BEING

1:49:53CRUSHED AND THE.

1:49:55>> REAR.

1:49:56WHEELS AND THAT'S.

1:49:56>> WHY THESE ARE.

1:49:57SO DANGEROUS.

1:49:58UM, BECAUSE TRUCKS ARE LONG AND

1:50:00HIGH AND THERE'S THE

1:50:01POSSIBILITY OF FALLING

1:50:02UNDERNEATH.

1:50:03SO THAT'S THE BASIC MECHANISM

1:50:04UM, AND IN TERMS OF HOW TO

1:50:06AVOID IT.

1:50:06UM.

1:50:07>> CYCLISTS NEED TO KNOW TO

1:50:08STAY BEHIND THE TRUCKS UM IN.

1:50:12LET'S SEE.

1:50:13>> AND LET ME GET BACK HERE.

1:50:15SO IN OTHER COUNTRIES THEY THEY

1:50:17GIVE THIS ADVICE TO SO EVEN IN

1:50:19THE NETHERLANDS WHERE THE

1:50:21EXTENSIVE NETWORK OF PROTECTED

1:50:24BIKE LANES UM THIS IS AN

1:50:26IMPORTANT UH EDUCATIONAL THING

1:50:28THEY PUT OUT.

1:50:29UM THE.

1:50:30YOU CAN READ THE COMMENTS

1:50:31BASICALLY THE SAME THING STAY

1:50:33BEHIND STAY AWAY.

1:50:34THEY DO A NATIONAL BLIND SPOT.

1:50:36THEY UH AT THE BEGINNING OF THE

1:50:37SCHOOL YEAR THEY HAVE EDUCATION

1:50:38FOR KIDS.

1:50:39UM, AND IN DENMARK TOO, UM,

1:50:43THEY'VE BEEN STUDYING THIS

1:50:44PROBLEM FOR A COUPLE DECADES

1:50:46AND LOOKING AT DIFFERENT WAYS

1:50:48OF REDUCING THE PROBLEM

1:50:49OF FATALITIES FROM RIGHT

1:50:50TURNING TRUCKS AND UM, A KEY

1:50:53PART OF IT IS ALSO THE

1:50:55EDUCATION PIECE.

1:50:56YEAH.

1:50:57SO THAT BICYCLISTS KNOW

1:50:59BICYCLISTS ARE WARNED ABOUT THE

1:51:00DANGERS.

1:51:01UM, SO UM AND IN AMSTERDAM

1:51:05RECENTLY THEY'VE PUT UP SIGNS

1:51:07AND PAVEMENT MARKINGS AT

1:51:10INTERSECTIONS AGAIN FLAGGING

1:51:11THE PROBLEM.

1:51:12SO UM.

1:51:15I HAVE UH BASICALLY TWO ASKS

1:51:17ONE IS WE IMITATE SOME OF THOSE

1:51:20PROGRAMS ELSEWHERE AND MAKE IT

1:51:22A PRIORITY TO MOURN BICYCLISTS

1:51:24SO WE CAN WORK WITH THE VARIETY

1:51:27OF UM, CYCLING ORGANIZATIONS

1:51:29AND UH, PRODUCE UM DIGITAL

1:51:31PRINT, UM SOCIAL MEDIA

1:51:33MATERIALS TO WORK WITH BLUE

1:51:34BIKES AND MAKE SURE THAT THE

1:51:36BIKE RIDERS KNOW ABOUT THIS.

1:51:37THE TRUCK DEMONSTRATION THAT

1:51:38UM, CHRIS MENTIONED IS

1:51:40SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DO.

1:51:41UM, AND THERE ARE SOME TWEAKS

1:51:43THAT I THINK WE NEED TO DO IN

1:51:44THE THE LAWS TO THAT UM, THAT

1:51:48DON'T GIVE THE RIGHT MESSAGE IN

1:51:49TERMS.

1:51:51OF ALLOWING BICYCLISTS TO PASS

1:51:52ON THE RIGHT ANY TIME THAT

1:51:53DON'T MATCH NATIONAL STANDARDS.

1:51:55THE OTHER ASK IS THAT, UM, WE

1:51:57NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT

1:51:58MOTORISTS KNOW THAT THEY CAN'T

1:52:00THREATEN BICYCLISTS WHO ARE NOT

1:52:02IN WHERE THEY THINK THEY OUGHT

1:52:03TO BE, AND WE SHOULD COME UP

1:52:05WITH A PROGRAM ABOUT THAT.

1:52:08AND I CAN SAY MORE ABOUT THAT

1:52:10LATER.

1:52:11PAUL, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:52:13UM, AND UM NEXT WE'RE GOING TO

1:52:16GO TO PETER FIRTH.

1:52:17HE'S VIRTUAL AND HE KIND

1:52:19OF NEEDS NO INTRODUCTION.

1:52:21PEOPLE KNOW PETER FIRTH SO.

1:52:25I UM YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO

1:52:26INVENT SLIDES FOR ME.

1:52:27YES WE DO.

1:52:28UM.

1:52:28CAN WE KEEP ONE OF UM JUST EVEN

1:52:31IF YOU COULD KEEP ONE OF THEM

1:52:32HIS FACE AND THEN ONE OF THEM

1:52:34THE SLIDES.

1:52:34THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

1:52:36WE HAVE TWO WE HAVE A COUPLE

1:52:38DIFFERENT.

1:52:40ALL RIGHT.

1:52:41I, UM, DO A LOT OF WORK

1:52:43EVALUATING BICYCLING NETWORKS.

1:52:45UH, GO AHEAD AND NEXT SLIDE.

1:52:47UM, YOU KNOW.

1:52:48JUST A.

1:52:49>> QUICK INTRODUCTION.

1:52:50THE KIND OF CITY WE ARE NOW IS

1:52:52ONE WHERE WE DON'T SEE SITES

1:52:54LIKE THIS THAT OFTEN KIDS

1:52:56RIDING HAPPILY HOME FROM

1:52:57SCHOOL.

1:52:57BUT THAT'S THE KIND OF CITY WE

1:52:59CAN BE AND THE KIND OF CITY

1:53:01THAT WE SHOULD BE.

1:53:02UM, BICYCLING IS GOOD FOR SO

1:53:04MUCH.

1:53:04I'LL GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT ONE.

1:53:06SO UH, I CREATED A UH NEXT

1:53:09SLIDE.

1:53:10I CREATED A SYSTEM OF LEVEL

1:53:12OF TRAFFIC STRESS RATING

1:53:12STREETS FROM 1 TO 4 WHERE UH,

1:53:15LEVEL ONE IS SUITABLE FOR

1:53:17CHILDREN WITH VERY LITTLE

1:53:18INTERACTION WITH CARS.

1:53:19LEVEL TWO IS ACCEPTABLE TO MOST

1:53:21ADULTS AND LEVEL THREE AND

1:53:23LEVEL FOUR OR MORE LIMITED.

1:53:25AND HOW MANY ADULTS ARE WILLING

1:53:26TO USE THEM?

1:53:27GO AHEAD TO THE NEXT ONE AND UH

1:53:30UH NEXT SLIDE UH THE FIRST CITY

1:53:34I DID THIS WAS IN SAN JOSE AND

1:53:36THE STREETS ARE ALL CODED

1:53:37ACCORDING TO THE STRESS LEVEL.

1:53:39AND IF YOU'RE WILLING TO USE

1:53:40ALL STRESS LEVELS WHERE YOU CAN

1:53:42JUST KIND OF RIDE ANYWHERE.

1:53:43BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEXT

1:53:44SLIDE YOU TAKE AWAY, UH, THE

1:53:48HIGHEST STRESS.

1:53:48NOW THERE'S SOME GAPS APPEARING

1:53:50NEXT SLIDE AND YOU GO TO LEVEL

1:53:53STRESS TO WHAT MOST ADULTS HAVE

1:53:55AND YOU'RE JUST STUCK ON THESE

1:53:56ISLANDS YOU JUST CAN'T GET FROM

1:53:58HERE TO THERE.

1:53:58AND NEXT SLIDE AND WE GO TO UH

1:54:01LEVELS OF STRESS ONE PEOPLE

1:54:03MOST PEOPLE AREN'T WILLING TO

1:54:05TO RIDE ON HIGH STREETS AND SO

1:54:06YOU JUST CAN'T GET ANYWHERE AND

1:54:08THAT'S THE WAY IT IS IN MOST

1:54:10OF OUR CITIES.

1:54:11NEXT SLIDE.

1:54:12SO I APPLIED THIS IN BOSTON.

1:54:15BOSTON'S BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE IN

1:54:162006 WAS WAS VERY MEAGER AND WE

1:54:19DO OUR NETWORK ANALYSIS BUT WE

1:54:21KNOW WHERE EVERYBODY LIVES AND

1:54:22WE KNOW WHERE THE JOBS ARE AND

1:54:24WE JUST ASK CAN YOU GET FROM

1:54:25EVERY HOME TO EVERY JOB?

1:54:27AND UH, THE ANSWER UH WAS

1:54:30ALMOST NOBODY CAN.

1:54:32AROUND 1% COULD GET FROM HOME

1:54:35TO WORK.

1:54:36NEXT SLIDE.

1:54:38IN 2015 WE DID IT AGAIN.

1:54:39UH, BY NOW THERE HAD BEEN QUITE

1:54:41A BIT OF ADDED BIKE

1:54:43INFRASTRUCTURE BUT AS YOU CAN

1:54:44SEE IT'S LITTLE PIECE HERE

1:54:45LITTLE PIECE THERE.

1:54:46IT DOESN'T CONNECT AND THE

1:54:48OVERALL GAME ACCESSIBILITY IS

1:54:49STILL VERY SMALL ONLY ABOUT UH

1:54:522% CITYWIDE.

1:54:53NEXT AND THE LAST TIME WE DID

1:54:55IT WAS IN SPRING OF THIS YEAR

1:54:58AND UH SO THERE'S QUITE A BIT

1:55:00OF INCREASE.

1:55:00BUT ONE THING I WANT TO POINT

1:55:01OUT IS WHAT A DIFFERENCE

1:55:03BETWEEN CAMBRIDGE AND

1:55:04SOMERVILLE WHERE ON AVERAGE UH

1:55:08FROM FROM A HOME THERE YOU CAN

1:55:10READ 20% UH OF THE JOBS IN

1:55:12BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE, SOMERVILLE.

1:55:15UH IN BOSTON IT'S AROUND 9% AND

1:55:17THEN WITHIN BOSTON WHAT A

1:55:18DIFFERENCE IN UH SOME

1:55:20NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE JAMAICA

1:55:22PLAIN AND FENWAY.

1:55:23UH, YOU KNOW, 14% EVEN ROXBURY

1:55:2711% SOUTH BOSTON WHEREAS IN THE

1:55:29SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY

1:55:31INCLUDING WEST ROXBURY AND

1:55:32MATTAPAN, HYDE PARK, DORCHESTER

1:55:35UH 1 OR 2%.

1:55:37UH NEXT SLIDE.

1:55:39SO THE OBJECTIVE OF A BIKE

1:55:42NETWORK IS TO PROVIDE LOW

1:55:43STRESS BIKE ACCESSIBILITY TO

1:55:45THE PLACES PEOPLE WANT TO GO TO

1:55:47JOBS, TO SCHOOLS, TO

1:55:48SUPERMARKETS AND SO ON.

1:55:50AND UH, GOOD MEASURE

1:55:51PERFORMANCE IS NOT JUST HOW

1:55:53MANY BIKE LANES THAT WE BUILT.

1:55:55IT HAS TO BE HOW MANY PEOPLE

1:55:57CAN GET TO THEIR DESTINATIONS.

1:55:59UH, THE GOAL BOSTON 2030 HAS UH

1:56:03AND PEOPLE HAVE HEARD SAID, YOU

1:56:04KNOW, EVERYONE SHOULD BE WITHIN

1:56:073 MINUTES OR 5 MINUTES OF A

1:56:08CONNECTED NETWORK.

1:56:08IT SOUNDS NICE BUT

1:56:09UNFORTUNATELY YOU CAN'T MEASURE

1:56:11THAT UNTIL WE HAVE A CONNECTED

1:56:12NETWORK WHICH WE DON'T HAVE.

1:56:14SO WHAT WORKS AS A MEASUREMENT

1:56:16IS HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN GET TWO

1:56:19JOBS TO SCHOOLS AND SO ON.

1:56:21NEXT SLIDE.

1:56:22SO I'LL SHOW YOU I DID SOME

1:56:24WORK I LOOKED AT JUST SELECT

1:56:25SELECTED THESE SIX SCHOOLS

1:56:27THREE OF THEM BEING OUR MAGNET

1:56:28SCHOOLS THAT DRAW PEOPLE FROM

1:56:29UH FROM ALL OVER THE CITY.

1:56:32UH ALTHOUGH PEOPLE FROM IN HIGH

1:56:34IN BOSTON PEOPLE FROM

1:56:35EVERYWHERE GO TO EVERY HIGH

1:56:36SCHOOL.

1:56:36NEXT SLIDE.

1:56:37SO YOU CAN SEE THAT UH, IT'S

1:56:40VERY LIMITED NUMBER OF STREETS.

1:56:41THIS IS FROM BOSTON LATIN A

1:56:44VERY LIMITED NUMBER OF STREETS.

1:56:46IF YOU HAPPEN TO LIVE ON ONE

1:56:47OF THESE STREETS IN BLACK

1:56:49YOU'VE GOT A LOW STRESS BIKE

1:56:50RIDE TO SCHOOL.

1:56:51IN PURPLE YOU WOULD HAVE A LOW

1:56:53STRESS BIKE RIDE IF WE

1:56:54COMPLETED A COUPLE OF PROJECTS

1:56:55.

1:56:57UH BUT WE WANT WE NEED TO DO

1:56:59WAY BETTER THAN THAT.

1:57:01NEXT SLIDE I LOOKED AT BOSTON

1:57:02LATIN ACADEMY THAT YOU CAN'T

1:57:04GET BRIGHT IN HIGH SCHOOL.

1:57:06THERE'S NO WAY UH, THAT WHERE

1:57:08YOU GOT A SAFE LOW STRESS RIDE

1:57:10TO SCHOOL.

1:57:11UH NEXT SLIDE AND SKIP THE NEXT

1:57:13FEW SLIDES.

1:57:14SEVERAL OTHER SCHOOLS.

1:57:14IT'S THE SAME STORY EVERYWHERE.

1:57:17NEXT SLIDE.

1:57:18UH, AND NEXT SLIDE.

1:57:20UH, SO NEXT SLIDE.

1:57:22YEAH.

1:57:23AND THEN I ALSO LOOKED AT AT

1:57:25SUPERMARKETS.

1:57:26ON THE LEFT IS SIMPLY THE

1:57:28LOCATION OF THE LARGE

1:57:29SUPERMARKETS AND THE AREA

1:57:31AROUND WHICH YOU COULD GET TO

1:57:33BY WALKING ALLOWING A SEVEN

1:57:34MINUTE WALK THE WITH BUT IF YOU

1:57:38COULD RIDE A BIKE AND YOU CAN

1:57:40CARRY A LOT MORE ON A BIKE

1:57:41THINK OF TRYING TO CARRY A

1:57:43GALLON OF MILK ON A BIKE SO

1:57:44MUCH EASIER THAN WALKING.

1:57:46UH YOU CAN SEE THAT IN MANY

1:57:49NEIGHBORHOODS AND IN CAMBRIDGE

1:57:50AND SOMERVILLE.

1:57:51YEAH, PEOPLE CAN GET TO A

1:57:53SUPERMARKET WITH THEIR BIKE AND

1:57:55GO HOME WITH GROCERIES.

1:57:56IN BOSTON A FEW NEIGHBORHOODS.

1:57:58MOST PLACES NO.

1:58:00WHEREAS IF WE BUILD A BIKE

1:58:01NETWORK AND REMOVE THE LOCAL

1:58:03BARRIERS, UH, WE CAN HAVE IT.

1:58:05NEARLY EVERYBODY CAN GET TO 1

1:58:08OR 2, UH, SUPERMARKETS SO THEY

1:58:10HAVE A CHOICE.

1:58:10NEXT SLIDE.

1:58:12SO THE UM THAT'S WHY I

1:58:15RECOMMEND UH CERTAINLY YOU KNOW

1:58:17BUILD OUT THE NETWORK AND HAVE

1:58:18PLANS TO BUILD UP THE NETWORK

1:58:20BUT ALONG WITH THAT HOW A

1:58:21PERFORMANCE MEASURE WHAT

1:58:22FRACTION OF BOSTON RESIDENTS

1:58:24HAVE LOW STRESS BIKE ACCESS TO

1:58:27TO JOBS TO SCHOOLS AND TO

1:58:29SUPERMARKET?

1:58:30AND WHEN I LOOK AT THESE MAPS I

1:58:32JUST WANT TO FINISH BY SAYING

1:58:34IT'S IT'S JUST JUMPS OUT TO ME.

1:58:36SO CLEARLY THE HIGHEST PRIORITY

1:58:38PROJECT SHOULD BE BLUE HILL AB

1:58:40AND HYDE PARK AB BECAUSE THAT

1:58:42THAT BRINGS THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS

1:58:44INTO THE BIKE NETWORK.

1:58:45RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE ALMOST ZERO

1:58:47BIKING ACCESSIBILITY TO

1:58:48ANYTHING AND UH AND THEN ALSO A

1:58:51UH LIKE ACROSS TOWN ROUTE GOING

1:58:53FROM GROVE PARK ALONG WITH

1:58:54MEDICAL VIA WARREN STREET,

1:58:56MALCOLM X TREMONT STREET

1:58:57BECAUSE THAT'S SO IMPORTANT TO

1:58:58GET TO SO MANY OF OUR SCHOOLS.

1:59:01UM, AND UH, WHEN WHEN

1:59:04CONNECTING PEOPLE TO THEIR

1:59:06DESTINATIONS IT IS IS THE MOST

1:59:08IMPORTANT THING.

1:59:09AND I THINK THOSE ARE THE

1:59:10PROJECTS THAT ANY ANALYSIS

1:59:12WOULD SHOW ARE REAL WINNERS.

1:59:15UM WE WANTED TO GET TO

1:59:17QUESTIONS PETER IF IT'S

1:59:18POSSIBLE BUT I'M.

1:59:19DONE AND UM BUT IF YOU WANTED

1:59:21TO JUST IS THERE ANY MORE

1:59:23SLIDES?

1:59:25I DON'T THINK SO.

1:59:26OKAY.

1:59:27>> PERFECT.

1:59:28THANK YOU SO MUCH.

1:59:29UM, AND IF WE COULD JUST PUT

1:59:30HIS, UM, PICTURE BACK UP ON

1:59:34THAT, UM, TV, THAT'D BE GREAT.

1:59:36UM, AND PETER, FEEL FREE TO

1:59:38CHIME IN IF YOU'D LIKE TO

1:59:39ANSWER ANY OF THESE QUESTIONS.

1:59:40WE'RE GOING TO START WITH FIVE

1:59:42MINUTES FOR EACH OF MY

1:59:42COLLEAGUES STARTING WITH THE

1:59:43LEAD CO-SPONSORS.

1:59:44UM, COUNCILOR WEBER, YOU HAVE

1:59:46THE FLOOR.

1:59:49AND FEEL FREE TO DIRECT YOUR

1:59:50QUESTION TO SPECIFIC FOLKS.

1:59:52OKAY.

1:59:53>> THANK YOU.

1:59:53YEAH.

1:59:54I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE THERE WAS A

1:59:55LOT OF.

1:59:55GREAT INFORMATION IN A VERY

1:59:56SHORT PERIOD OF TIME.

1:59:58UM.

1:59:59>> SO I GUESS CHRIS, IT SOUNDS

2:00:01LIKE I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK

2:00:03OF ACTION ITEMS FOR US.

2:00:04NUMBER ONE, LET ME KNOW IF YOU

2:00:06AGREE.

2:00:07UPDATE THE THE CITY UH

2:00:10ORDINANCE TO REQUIRE UPDATED

2:00:13SIDECAR.

2:00:13YOU KNOW, LIKE THE UP TO DATE

2:00:15SIDECARS AND AND REAR CAMERAS

2:00:17ON CITY VEHICLES AND CITY

2:00:19TRUCKS IS THAT I THINK I WOULD

2:00:22PHRASE IT AS MATCH THE CITY

2:00:23ORDINANCE TO THE STATE LAW.

2:00:25OKAY.

2:00:25THE EASIEST WAY UM, BECAUSE

2:00:27WE'RE SEEING CONTRACTORS GO AND

2:00:29COMPLY WITH THAT STATE LAW AND

2:00:30THEY PROBABLY WORK ON CONTRACTS

2:00:31FOR THE CITY AS WELL.

2:00:32AND YOU WANT THAT RECIPROCITY.

2:00:34WELL THAT WAS THE CEO.

2:00:35UH, SO THE STATE LAW UH, ON THE

2:00:39REQUIREMENTS FOR OUR OUR TRUCKS

2:00:42AND THEN I THINK EXTENDING IT

2:00:44TO CITY TO CITY CONTRACTORS

2:00:45ALSO IS THAT DO WE NOT HAVE

2:00:47THAT NOW THAT IS PART OF THE

2:00:49ORDINANCE NOW IT DOES APPLY TO

2:00:50CITY CONTRACTORS AND YOU'D HAVE

2:00:52TO TALK TO I THINK HE HEARD SHE

2:00:53SAW BECAUSE THEY TALKED TO

2:00:54INSPECTIONAL SERVICES

2:00:55DEPARTMENT IN HIS CABINET ABOUT

2:00:57UH WHERE THEY ARE IN THAT

2:00:58PROCESS.

2:00:58OKAY.

2:00:59AND THEN THE.

2:01:00LAST THING I THINK.

2:01:02UM FOR DO WE.

2:01:03DO YOU RECOMMEND FOR

2:01:04PROCUREMENT TO SORT OF UH,

2:01:07PRIORITIZE THE SORT OF HIGHER

2:01:09VISION VEHICLES IN THE STATE IN

2:01:11THE CITY FLEET?

2:01:13IS THAT SOMETHING THAT HAS

2:01:14WORKED ON THE STATE LEVEL?

2:01:16I WOULD SAY LIKE THE UH THE

2:01:18RESEARCH POINTS TO WANTING TO

2:01:20HAVE HIGHER VISION VEHICLES IN

2:01:21YOUR FLEET.

2:01:23UM, THE RESEARCH IS RELATIVELY

2:01:24NEW SO WE DON'T HAVE A STATE

2:01:25LAW, UH, REQUIRING ANYTHING ON

2:01:27HIGH VISION CABS.

2:01:29I THINK THE BEST MODEL THAT

2:01:30WE'VE SEEN OUT THERE TO LOOK TO

2:01:31IS NEW YORK CITY, WHO HAS PUT

2:01:33THIS IN, UH, THEIR PROCUREMENT

2:01:34LANGUAGE.

2:01:35SO THAT MIGHT BE AN EXAMPLE TO

2:01:36DRAW FROM.

2:01:37OKAY.

2:01:39UM, OKAY.

2:01:40UH, THEN MISTER ROSSUM UH UH I

2:01:45GUESS UM, YOU KNOW, I GUESS

2:01:49KNOWING WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT

2:01:50BOSTON, ARE THERE ANY

2:01:51DIFFERENCES HERE THAT WOULD

2:01:54MAKE IT.

2:01:55MAKE IT MORE.

2:01:56DIFFICULT FOR US TO LIKE

2:01:58ACHIEVE THE SAME SORT

2:01:59OF NUMBERS THAT YOU HAVE IN

2:02:01SOMERVILLE?

2:02:02UH, AND OR YOU KNOW, TO, UM, I

2:02:06DON'T KNOW ANYTHING THAT YOU'VE

2:02:08IN YOUR EXPERIENCE THAT YOU SEE

2:02:09HERE THAT'S DIFFERENT THAT UH

2:02:12THAT YOU'D LIKE TO POINT OUT I

2:02:13DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE LOOKING TO

2:02:15SOMERVILLE IS SORT OF THE GOLD

2:02:16STANDARD, YOU KNOW, IN IN

2:02:19SAFETY.

2:02:20WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE US TO BE

2:02:21AWARE OF?

2:02:22I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE

2:02:24QUESTION, COUNCILOR.

2:02:25AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT

2:02:26WE'VE LEARNED FROM OUR PEER

2:02:27CITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY IS

2:02:29THAT THERE ARE REALLY BEST

2:02:30PRACTICES THAT WE CAN ALL

2:02:31ASPIRE TO AND MANY OF THEM ARE

2:02:32CLEARLY IN PLACE ALREADY IN THE

2:02:34CITY OF BOSTON.

2:02:35MEANINGFUL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

2:02:36WITH MULTIPLE FEEDBACK LOOPS TO

2:02:38HELP DELIVER DESIGNS THAT USE

2:02:40EVIDENCE BASED TRAFFIC CALMING

2:02:41AND SAFETY MEASURES.

2:02:43INTEGRATING DESIGN PROCESSES

2:02:45WITH OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE

2:02:46PLANNING ENSURING THAT OUR

2:02:48PLANNERS AND OUR ENGINEERS

2:02:49DON'T GET TOO FAR AHEAD OF OUR

2:02:52RESOURCES IN DPW AND FIRE

2:02:54DEPARTMENTS.

2:02:55SOMERVILLE HAS REALLY WORKED

2:02:56HARD INTERNALLY TO MAKE SURE

2:02:57THAT THE VELOCITY OF CHANGE ON

2:02:59RESOURCE ALLOCATION ON TRACKS

2:03:01BETWEEN OPERATIONS AND DESIGN.

2:03:03UM THE THIRD PIECE OF THE

2:03:05PUZZLE IS CONTINUOUS PROCESS

2:03:07IMPROVEMENT.

2:03:07BEING HUMBLE ABOUT THE FACT,

2:03:09COUNCILOR, THAT WE'RE NEVER

2:03:10GOING TO GET IT ALL RIGHT BUT

2:03:11THAT EVERY SINGLE PROJECT,

2:03:12PROGRAM OR POLICY INITIATIVE IS

2:03:14AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO

2:03:15REFLECT, TO CREATE DATA TRAILS,

2:03:18TO ACCEPT CONSTRUCTIVE

2:03:19CRITICISM AND COMMIT OURSELVES

2:03:21TO DOING BETTER.

2:03:21I THINK THAT'S THE RECIPE THAT

2:03:23WE'VE LEARNED FROM OTHER BEST

2:03:24PRACTICES AROUND THE COUNTRY,

2:03:25AND THAT'S WHAT SOMERVILLE IS

2:03:26PROUD OF DOING THESE DAYS.

2:03:28OKAY.

2:03:28>> AND YOU MENTIONED LIKE

2:03:29RECURRING FUNDING UH, FOR THESE

2:03:31PROJECTS.

2:03:32SO DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFICS

2:03:33LIKE WHERE ARE YOU FUNDING

2:03:35THESE?

2:03:36YES.

2:03:36>> THANK YOU AGAIN I THINK THE

2:03:37BEST PRACTICE IS TO USE

2:03:39MAINTENANCE BUDGETS BECAUSE

2:03:40THEY OFTEN ARE MORE STABLE FROM

2:03:41YEAR TO YEAR THAN BIG TICKET

2:03:43CAPITAL PROJECTS.

2:03:45UM, WE ALL WORK ON RESURFACING

2:03:47AND ADD AND TRANSITION PLANS

2:03:48AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO

2:03:50DIRECT SOME OF THOSE RESOURCES

2:03:52TO TRAFFIC CALMING IF WE'RE

2:03:53GOING TO BE REAL REBUILDING A

2:03:54CURB RAMP FOR ACCESSIBILITY

2:03:55PURPOSES IN SOMERVILLE.

2:03:56WE ARE OFTEN GOING TO EXTEND

2:03:58THE CURB TO LIMIT UM, THE

2:04:00CROSSING DISTANCE FOR THE

2:04:01ACTUAL CROSSWALK AND GO FROM

2:04:0430FT TO 20FT FOR EXAMPLE CAN

2:04:06HELP WITH GRADES, CAN HELP WITH

2:04:07DRAINAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY.

2:04:09BUT THERE'S ALSO AN OBVIOUS

2:04:10TRAFFIC CALMING BENEFIT.

2:04:10AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR THOSE

2:04:12RECURRING FUNDING SOURCES AS IS

2:04:13DEFINITELY PART OF THE PUZZLE.

2:04:15AND DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH YOU

2:04:17WHAT ARE YOUR BUDGETS LIKE FOR

2:04:19YOU KNOW I DON'T KNOW IF YOU

2:04:20HAVE ANY NUMBERS, COUNSELOR.

2:04:22UM, WE APPROACH THIS AGAIN

2:04:24RECOGNIZING THAT SOMERVILLE

2:04:25SIGNS BOSTON BRIGHTON 80,000

2:04:26PEOPLE FOR SQUARE MILES.

2:04:28UM, WE'VE GOT 100 MILES

2:04:29OF ROAD.

2:04:29WE ISSUE ABOUT $8 MILLION

2:04:31OF CHAPTER 90 STYLE MAINTENANCE

2:04:32CONTRACTS PER YEAR.

2:04:33THAT ALLOWS US TO DO ABOUT A 4

2:04:36OR $5 MILLION HALF MILE

2:04:36COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT AND

2:04:37ABOUT 4 OR $5 MILLION OF UH,

2:04:40PAVEMENT MANAGEMENT OF ISOLATED

2:04:42SIDEWALKS AND CURB RAMP WORK.

2:04:43UM, SO THAT'S REALLY HELPING US

2:04:45MOVE THE NEEDLE.

2:04:45YOU KNOW.

2:04:46HOW MANY MILES I DIDN'T.

2:04:48TOTAL IN OUR CITY?

2:04:49100 MILES WE DO ABOUT A HALF

2:04:51MILE OF THESE SIGNATURE

2:04:52COMPLETE STREETS PROJECTS PER

2:04:53YEAR USING THOSE CONSTRUCTION

2:04:55RESOURCES.

2:04:55AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO TALK A

2:04:56LITTLE BIT LATER ABOUT UM,

2:04:57QUICK BUILD TOOLKIT AS JERRY

2:04:59RIGHTLY NOTED.

2:05:00UM, THAT IS DEFINITELY A COST

2:05:02EFFECTIVE WAY FOR US TO

2:05:03CONTINUE TO DELIVER NOT ONLY

2:05:04SEPARATED BIKE LANES BUT

2:05:05TRAFFIC CALMING.

2:05:05OKAY, SO I APOLOGIZE TO THE

2:05:08PANELISTS I DIDN'T GET TO BUT I

2:05:09MEAN HONESTLY THIS HAS BEEN A

2:05:11WONDERFUL PRESENTATION FROM

2:05:13EVERYONE AND I JUST WANT TO

2:05:14THANK YOU.

2:05:15UH UM, YOU KNOW, FOR IF I GET A

2:05:18SECOND QUESTION AROUND I'LL ASK

2:05:20QUESTIONS.

2:05:20>> BUT THANK YOU AND JUST WOULD

2:05:21LOVE TO SHOUT OUT, UM,

2:05:23COUNCILOR WEBBER'S TEAM FOR

2:05:24PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.

2:05:25I WAS A LITTLE BIT SKEPTICAL

2:05:26THAT EVERYONE COULD MOVE FAST,

2:05:27BUT YOU GUYS DID AN INCREDIBLE

2:05:29JOB.

2:05:29THANK YOU.

2:05:29AND JUST EVEN HAVING THESE

2:05:31MATERIALS FOR US TO TO TO GO

2:05:34THROUGH IS VERY VERY HELPFUL.

2:05:35SO UM WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

2:05:37COUNCILOR WEBER NEXT AND THEN

2:05:39COUNCILOR SORRY NO SORRY.

2:05:42COUNCILOR WE'RE GOING TO GO TO

2:05:43COUNCILOR PREPARED NEXT AND

2:05:44THEN COUNCILOR BREADON UM AND

2:05:46THEN UH JUST GRATEFUL UM AGAIN

2:05:48FOR YOU ALL BEING HERE AND

2:05:49THANKS FOR AND THANK YOU TO THE

2:05:50PATIENCE OF THOSE THAT ARE

2:05:52WAITING TO TESTIFY.

2:05:53THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:05:55AND THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR

2:05:56ALL THOSE AMAZING

2:05:57PRESENTATIONS.

2:05:57I'M SITTING HERE JUST.

2:05:58>> IN FULL THE FULL

2:05:59APPRECIATION AND AMAZEMENT

2:06:00OF THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO AND

2:06:02LEARNING A LOT.

2:06:02UM, I WANTED TO JUST UM THANK

2:06:06ALSO PROFESSOR FOURTH FOR UM

2:06:08FOR JUST EVERYTHING YOU DO.

2:06:10I'M CURRENTLY AN MBA STUDENT AT

2:06:12NORTHEASTERN WITH A CERTIFICATE

2:06:14OF URBAN PLANNING.

2:06:16SO I'M GOING TO LOOK OUT FOR

2:06:18ONE OF YOUR CLASSES.

2:06:19UM, LEARN MORE FROM YOU.

2:06:21I'M VERY INTERESTED IN WHAT YOU

2:06:23HAVE TO TEACH.

2:06:24UM, MY FIRST QUESTION IS GOING

2:06:27TO BE TO CHRIS.

2:06:28UM, FELLOW ROSLYN RESIDENT

2:06:30HERE.

2:06:31UM, LARGE VEHICLES REALLY IS AN

2:06:33ISSUE IN THE AREA OF HYDE PARK

2:06:35FOR ME.

2:06:36I HAVE 18 WHEELERS GOING DOWN

2:06:39WOOD AVENUE TRYING TO GET TO.

2:06:41RIVER STREET.

2:06:42UH, AND THE REASON WHY THEY'RE

2:06:44PROBABLY DOING THIS IS BECAUSE

2:06:45THEY'RE THEY'RE TRYING TO CUT

2:06:46TRAFFIC AND NOT USE THE MAIN

2:06:48THOROUGHFARES LIKE HYDE PARK

2:06:49OUT.

2:06:49TRUMAN PARKWAY THEN ONTO RIVER

2:06:51STREET.

2:06:52UM, WHAT I'VE NOTICED IS THAT

2:06:54AND THAT'S SOMETHING I WANTED

2:06:55TO BRING UP TO THE PREVIOUS

2:06:56PANEL, BUT JUST THE TIME WASN'T

2:06:58ENOUGH.

2:06:58UM.

2:07:00SIGNAGE WOULD BE HELPFUL.

2:07:01UM.

2:07:02>> THE AWARENESS TO TRUCK

2:07:03DRIVERS WILL BE HELPFUL TOO.

2:07:04I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH

2:07:06DO DRIVERS EVEN KNOW WHAT ROADS

2:07:07THEY CAN USE AND WHAT THEY

2:07:08CAN'T USE.

2:07:09WHAT RECOMMENDATIONS DO YOU

2:07:10HAVE FOR THE CITY IN TERMS

2:07:12OF THE ROUTES THAT WE SHOULD BE

2:07:13USING?

2:07:14I MEAN I'M CONSTANTLY UM MY MOM

2:07:16WORKS AT THE AIRPORT AND I'M

2:07:17CONSTANTLY GOING TO MARKET

2:07:18BASKET AS WELL IN CHELSEA.

2:07:19THEY HAVE A TRUCK ROUTE THAT

2:07:21EVERYONE KNOWS IS THE TRUCK

2:07:22ROUTE, YOU KNOW AND IT'S VERY

2:07:23IT'S WELL SIGNALED AND WHAT

2:07:25RECOMMENDATIONS YOU HAVE FOR US

2:07:26HERE IN BOSTON.

2:07:29I, I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN GIVE

2:07:30YOU AN EXACT RECOMMENDATION ON

2:07:31ON HOW TO READ THAT'S UP TO UP

2:07:32TO THE CITY ON HOW YOU WANT TO

2:07:33PURSUE THAT.

2:07:34BUT THERE IS A HEAVY VEHICLE

2:07:35UH, HEAVY COMMERCIAL VEHICLE

2:07:37EXCLUSION PROCESS, UH, THAT THE

2:07:39CITY CAN BRING TO MASSDOT.

2:07:41UH, THERE'S SOME ENGINEERING

2:07:42REQUIREMENTS BEHIND THAT

2:07:43ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION

2:07:45OF LIKE ALTERNATIVE ROUTES.

2:07:46IT HAS TO BE PART OF THAT

2:07:47PROCESS.

2:07:47UM, AND IT'S UH IF YOU LOOK AT

2:07:50THE MASSACHUSETTS AMENDMENTS TO

2:07:52THE MUT, YOU CAN FIND SORT

2:07:54OF WHAT IS REQUIRED AND WHAT

2:07:56THINGS ARE ALLOWED OR NOT

2:07:57ALLOWED THERE.

2:07:57UM, IT IS SOMETHING THE CITY

2:07:59COULD GO THROUGH AND LIKELY HAS

2:08:00GONE THROUGH FOR SOME ROADS IN

2:08:02THE PAST AND THE REQUIREMENTS

2:08:03ON SIGNAGE ARE LAID OUT THERE

2:08:04AS WELL.

2:08:05BUT IT DOES KIND OF GO THROUGH

2:08:07PROGRESSIVE THING BECAUSE IN

2:08:08LOTS OF PLACES YOU KNOW IN YOUR

2:08:10DISTRICT UH THERE'S COMMERCIAL

2:08:11DELIVERIES THAT ARE HAPPENING

2:08:12FOR RESTAURANT RESUPPLY AND

2:08:13OTHER THINGS.

2:08:14RIGHT.

2:08:15SO YOU'RE TRYING TO SORT

2:08:15OF BALANCE THAT WITH ALSO

2:08:17MAKING SURE THAT OTHER VEHICLES

2:08:18MAYBE DON'T NEED TO BE THERE

2:08:19AND MIXING WITH CYCLIST OR

2:08:21PEDESTRIANS ARE ABLE TO FIND A

2:08:22SUITABLE ALTERNATIVE ROUTE.

2:08:24ABSOLUTELY.

2:08:25>> AND I WAS SOMETHING I WANTED

2:08:26TO TELL MISS CAPONE WAS THAT UM

2:08:28YOU KNOW, EVEN I WAS CURIOUS TO

2:08:30LEARN ABOUT THE INCENTIVES THAT

2:08:31YOU HAD IN MIND.

2:08:32UM, PROBABLY GOING TO PICK YOUR

2:08:33BRAIN A LITTLE BIT, UH, AFTER

2:08:35THIS HEARING BECAUSE I THINK

2:08:36THAT THE TIMING OF DELIVERIES

2:08:38AND THE TIMING OF WHEN THE 18

2:08:39WHEELERS AND THE THOSE TRUCKS

2:08:40ARE ON OUR STREETS DOES MATTER

2:08:42AS WELL SO THAT THE ROADS ARE

2:08:43UM, BEING SHARED AS OFTEN.

2:08:44ABSOLUTELY.

2:08:45SO I APPRECIATE YOUR INSIGHT

2:08:46THERE AND I'M GOING TO TAKE A

2:08:48LOOK AT YOUR PRESENTATION MUCH

2:08:49DEEPER.

2:08:49AND I WANTED TO MOVE OVER TO

2:08:51SOMERVILLE FOR A LITTLE BIT.

2:08:53YOUR CITY ALWAYS CATCHES MY

2:08:55ATTENTION.

2:08:55IT'S I MEAN I DIDN'T KNOW THAT

2:08:58YOU GUYS ARE HERE, THAT YOU'RE

2:09:00THE MOST DENSELY POPULATED CITY

2:09:02IN NEW ENGLAND.

2:09:03BASED ON POPULATION PER SQUARE

2:09:05MILE AND THAT IT'S IMPRESSIVE

2:09:07THAT YOU'VE BEEN ABLE TO HAVE

2:09:08ZERO FATALITIES.

2:09:09RURAL FATALITIES FOR WHAT THE

2:09:12PAST 3 OR 4 YEARS.

2:09:15YOU REALLY TALK TO ME ABOUT HOW

2:09:18YOU GOT THERE IN TERMS

2:09:19OF FUNDING AND EVERYTHING, BUT

2:09:21.

2:09:21WHAT'S THE FEEDBACK FROM THE

2:09:23RESIDENTS.

2:09:23BECAUSE SOMETHING THAT WE

2:09:25ALWAYS HEAR IS OH.

2:09:27>> THERE'S.

2:09:27PUSHBACK FROM RESIDENTS THAT

2:09:28THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE THIS

2:09:29INFRASTRUCTURE, THEY DON'T WANT

2:09:31TO SEE MORE BIKING ETC. ETC..

2:09:32BUT I'M PRETTY.

2:09:33SURE THE RESIDENTS OF SUMMER

2:09:34ARE PROUD ABOUT THIS STATISTIC

2:09:36AND I WANT TO KNOW LIKE DOES

2:09:39THAT ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS THAT

2:09:40THE CITY GOVERNMENT UM WHAT'S

2:09:42THE FEELING THERE?

2:09:43DO YOU STILL CONTINUE TO GET

2:09:45PUSHBACK?

2:09:45THANKS FOR THE QUESTION

2:09:46COUNCILOR.

2:09:47WE ALWAYS SAY THAT THE ROLE

2:09:48OF OUR STAFF IS TO BE A LENS TO

2:09:50FOCUS OUR COMMUNITY'S ENERGY.

2:09:52OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS HAVE SAID

2:09:53THROUGH MULTIPLE GENERATIONS

2:09:54OF MAYOR, MULTIPLE GENERATIONS

2:09:56OF CITY COUNCIL, MULTIPLE

2:09:58GENERATIONS OF STAFF THAT

2:09:59TRAFFIC DEATHS ON OUR STREETS

2:10:00ARE UNACCEPTABLE.

2:10:01THIS WAS HAPPENING BEFORE OUR

2:10:02VISION ZERO DECLARATION.

2:10:03THIS WAS HAPPENING BEFORE OUR

2:10:05LOW POINT IN 2019.

2:10:06IT'S STILL HAPPENING TODAY.

2:10:08WE HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT WAYS

2:10:10TO MEASURE RESIDENT FEEDBACK,

2:10:12AND I DON'T WANT TO PRETEND

2:10:13THAT THESE THINGS CANNOT BE

2:10:15VIEWED DIFFERENTLY AND EVEN

2:10:16CONTROVERSIALLY HOWEVER, WE

2:10:18HAVE MANY, MANY QUANTITATIVE

2:10:19WAYS TO MEASURE RESIDENT

2:10:21FEEDBACK AND FOR EXAMPLE WE GET

2:10:23ABOUT FOUR REQUESTS FOR NEW

2:10:24TRAFFIC CALMING FOR EVERY ONE

2:10:27CONCERN OR COMPLAINT ABOUT

2:10:28TRAFFIC CALMING.

2:10:30SO WE ARE CONSTANTLY LIVING IN

2:10:31THIS WORLD WHERE OUR RESIDENTS

2:10:32ARE ASKING US TO DO MORE,

2:10:33BETTER, FASTER YET THEY'RE ALSO

2:10:35ASKING US TO DO IT WITH

2:10:37TRANSPARENCY, WITH EMPATHY AND

2:10:39RECOGNIZING THAT THERE CAN BE

2:10:41TRADE OFFS IN TRANSPORTATION

2:10:42POLICY.

2:10:42AND OVER THE 19 YEARS THAT I'VE

2:10:44BEEN SERVING IN THE CITY AND IN

2:10:45THE 11 YEARS I'VE BEEN IN THE

2:10:46DIRECTOR'S CHAIR, WE HAVE

2:10:47GOTTEN MUCH MORE CONFIDENT AND

2:10:49MUCH MORE EMPATHETIC ABOUT

2:10:50NAMING THE TRADE OFFS AND

2:10:52TRYING TO BE EMPATHETIC, UH, TO

2:10:55TO KEEP OUR COALITIONS AND OUR

2:10:56COMMUNITY WORKING IN THE SAME

2:10:57DIRECTION.

2:10:58I APPRECIATE THAT I KNOW MY

2:10:59TIME IS UP.

2:11:00I I MEAN I'M IN SOMERVILLE FOR

2:11:02PERSONAL FUN STUFF BUT I I

2:11:04THINK IT WE SHOULD PAY A VISIT

2:11:07TO TO LEARN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT

2:11:08WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

2:11:09MAYBE WE COULD GO OUT WITH

2:11:10MEMBERS OF THE OF THE STREETS

2:11:11CABINET JUST I ALWAYS BELIEVE

2:11:13IN LEARNING FROM OTHER

2:11:13MUNICIPALITIES OF WHAT THEY'RE

2:11:15DOING AND WHAT CAN WE BRING

2:11:15HERE.

2:11:16>> TO THE CITY?

2:11:17I RECOMMEND FOR FAST.

2:11:19UM, SO UM WE WILL UH, GO TO

2:11:23COUNCILOR BREADON AND THEN UM,

2:11:25COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE.

2:11:27THANK YOU AND THANK YOU FOR

2:11:29YOUR AMAZING ALL OF YOU THANK

2:11:30YOU FOR YOUR.

2:11:31PRESENTATIONS THIS AFTERNOON.

2:11:32UH, I DO CITE SOMERVILLE HAS

2:11:34BEEN ALMOST LIKE A.

2:11:36TWIN FALLS.

2:11:37>> AND BRIGHTON WERE THEN

2:11:38ALMOST IDENTICAL BY SQUARE

2:11:40MILEAGE AND BY POPULATION AND

2:11:42YOU DID PURPOSE.

2:11:43I KNOW SOMERVILLE HAS BEEN THE

2:11:44MOST DENSELY POPULATED CITY IN

2:11:46THE COUNTRY AT ONE STAGE.

2:11:47SO, UH, YOU HAVE A VERY DENSE

2:11:49POPULATION.

2:11:50UM, I'M JUST CURIOUS IN TERMS

2:11:53OF UH YOU MENTIONED THE

2:11:56INTENTIONALITY AROUND UH,

2:11:58COORDINATING UM ACROSS

2:12:00DEPARTMENTS ON YOUR ON YOUR

2:12:01COMPLETE STREETS AND

2:12:04IMPLEMENTATION AND AND ALSO

2:12:07WHAT'S THE SECRET LIKE SECRET

2:12:09SAUCE LIKE I FEEL SOMETIMES

2:12:12THAT YOU MENTIONED NOT HAVING

2:12:13THE PLANNERS GET TOO HARD AHEAD

2:12:15TOO FAR AHEAD OF THE HEAD

2:12:17OF THE IMPLEMENTATION.

2:12:18BUT WE'VE GOT GREAT PLANS AND

2:12:20HOW DO WE HOW DO WE HOW DO WE

2:12:23GET THERE?

2:12:24THANK YOU COUNCILOR I'LL TRY TO

2:12:26KEEP MY REMARKS QUICK AND I'LL

2:12:27NOTE THAT WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE

2:12:29OF THE RESPONSIBILITY OF A

2:12:30SOAPBOX OF VISIBILITY AND WE

2:12:32HAVE USED THAT PRIVILEGE IN

2:12:33THAT SOAPBOX AS PLANNERS AND

2:12:34ENGINEERS TO GO TO BAT FOR OUR

2:12:36OPERATIONS PARTNERS WHO DON'T

2:12:37ALWAYS HAVE THE SAME SOAPBOX.

2:12:39THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT OUR

2:12:41COMMUNITY ADVOCATES AND OUR

2:12:41ELECTED OFFICIALS COME TO US

2:12:43COME TO ME AS TRANSPORTATION

2:12:44DIRECTOR AND SAY, BRAD,

2:12:45WOULDN'T YOU NEED LIKE 2 OR 4

2:12:47MORE STAFF?

2:12:47I SAY SURE, OF COURSE.

2:12:49BUT WE ACTUALLY REALLY NEED IS

2:12:50ANOTHER SPECIALTY CREW IN OUR

2:12:52DPW TO TAKE CARE OF FLEX POSTS

2:12:54TO SWEEP AND PLOW ON THESE MORE

2:12:56COMPLEX TRAFFIC STREETS.

2:12:58WE NEED MORE STAFF IN OUR

2:12:59PARKING DEPARTMENT TO

2:13:00ADMINISTER MORE NIMBLE AND

2:13:02PROGRESSIVE UM, PARKING

2:13:04CURBSIDE REGULATIONS.

2:13:05AND SO WE'VE ACTUALLY PASSED UP

2:13:07ON THE OPPORTUNITIES TO GO TO

2:13:08BAT TO GROW OUR HEADCOUNT

2:13:10PLANNERS AND ENGINEERS TO MAKE

2:13:11SURE THAT WE'RE LIFTING UP THE

2:13:13OPERATIONS TEAMS.

2:13:13SAME THING WITH OUR FIRE

2:13:15DEPARTMENT.

2:13:15WE HAVE BEEN THE ONES GRANT

2:13:16WRITING FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLE

2:13:18PREEMPTION TO KEEP APPARATUS

2:13:19MOVING ON OUR STREETS.

2:13:20RECOGNIZING THE SPEED HUMPS AND

2:13:22RAISED CROSSWALKS CAN HAVE

2:13:23IMPACTS ON OPERATIONS.

2:13:25SO AGAIN IT REALLY IS THAT THAT

2:13:26THAT SENSE OF TEAM PLAY AND

2:13:28ESPRIT DE CORPS THAT HAS BEEN

2:13:29FUNDAMENTAL TO SOMERVILLE'S

2:13:30JOURNEY.

2:13:31WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME TEAM AT

2:13:32THE END OF THE DAY.

2:13:33UM.

2:13:36THE THE ISSUE WITH LIKE I DO

2:13:40I'M RIGHT WITH CONTRA PEPEN I

2:13:41THINK YOU KNOW, I'M JUST IN AWE

2:13:43OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DOING

2:13:44ELM STREET EVERY TIME I GO OVER

2:13:46THE OF SOMETHING NEW, UH, AND

2:13:48EXCITING.

2:13:48UM, I DO YOU KNOW AND ALSO ONE

2:13:51BIG ISSUE WE HAD WE HAD FLEX

2:13:53POST AND PROTECTED BIKE SEMI

2:13:55PROTECTED BIKE LANES AND ALSO

2:13:57IN BRIGHTON LAST WINTER WE GOT.

2:13:58PLOWED OUT OF EXISTENCE.

2:14:01I KNOW I KNOW WHEN I GO TO

2:14:03SOMERVILLE THAT'S NOT HAPPENING

2:14:04LIKE HOW DO YOU MANAGE SNOW

2:14:07REMOVAL IN SOMERVILLE?

2:14:08THAT MEANS THAT YOUR BIKE LANES

2:14:09AREN'T JUST WIPED OUT IF YOU

2:14:11HAVE A BAD WINTER.

2:14:12GREAT QUESTION COUNCILOR.

2:14:14UM WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE DPW

2:14:16TEAM THAT DOES AN ENTIRE YEAR'S

2:14:18WORTH OF OPERATIONAL PLANNING

2:14:19OF LOOK BACKS ON THE PRIOR

2:14:21YEAR'S OPERATIONS AND PROJECTS

2:14:23FORWARD.

2:14:23UM, AROUND THANKSGIVING WE'LL

2:14:24DO AN ANNUAL SNOW DRILL.

2:14:25OUR STAFF AND OUR MOBILITY

2:14:27DIVISION PREPARE ROUTE MAPS

2:14:28WITH OUR HIGHWAY

2:14:30SUPERINTENDENTS AND THEN THOSE

2:14:31ROUTE MAPS GET PRINTED AND PUT

2:14:32IN, UH, APPARATUS SO THAT

2:14:34IN-HOUSE STAFF AND EXTERNAL

2:14:35CONTRACTORS DRIVE THOSE STREETS

2:14:37IN THE FALL BEFORE THE SNOW

2:14:38STARTS FLYING.

2:14:39THAT CAN BE PART OF A SOLUTION

2:14:40TO REDUCE THE LOSS RATE AND THE

2:14:42ATTRITION RATE.

2:14:43UM.

2:14:44>> BUT IT ALSO KEEPS.

2:14:45PLOW OPERATORS SAFE, RIGHT?

2:14:46IF RAISE CROSSWALK OR SPEED

2:14:47HUMP IS NOT MARKED ADEQUATELY

2:14:49OR BEEN NEWLY BUILT, IT'S

2:14:50IMPORTANT THAT WE UPDATE THOSE

2:14:52MAPS AND MAKE SURE THE

2:14:52OPERATIONS TEAMS ARE IN A SAFE

2:14:54AND POSITION TO SUCCEED, BUT WE

2:14:55ALSO COMMIT OURSELVES TO REALLY

2:14:57REALLY QUICK REPLACEMENT.

2:14:58WE SPENT A LOT OF MONEY ON FLEX

2:14:59BOATS.

2:14:59WE GOT ABOUT 3000 IN SERVICE

2:15:01TODAY IN OUR SMALL CITY AND WE

2:15:03HAVE MEASURABLE ANNUAL LOSS

2:15:04RATE OF ABOUT 10% AND WE HAVE

2:15:06JUDGED THAT THAT IS WORTH IT

2:15:07WHILE WE SIMULTANEOUSLY STRIVE

2:15:09TO REPLACE THOSE WITH PERMANENT

2:15:11SIDEWALK LEVEL OR PRECAST

2:15:12CONCRETE SEPARATED FACILITIES

2:15:13THAT ARE A LITTLE BIT MORE

2:15:14DURABLE.

2:15:15UM, AND THEN YOU KNOW, ONE

2:15:16THING THAT I'M VERY I KNOW

2:15:18WE'VE HAD A LOT

2:15:19OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT

2:15:19PROTECTED BIKE LANES ETC..

2:15:21ONE BIG ISSUE IN OUR DISTRICT

2:15:23ALLSTON BRIGHTON IS THE

2:15:24INCREDIBLE FATALITY RATE

2:15:26OF PEDESTRIANS ON CROSSWALKS

2:15:27LIKE I'VE BEEN IN OFFICE FOR.

2:15:30THIS IS MY SEVENTH YEAR WE'VE

2:15:32HAD AT LEAST FIVE THAT I KNOW

2:15:35OF FIVE PEOPLE KILLED ON

2:15:36CROSSWALKS AND UM NUMEROUS

2:15:39UNTOLD INCIDENTS OF SERIOUS

2:15:40INJURY OF FOLKS CROSSING THE

2:15:42ROAD.

2:15:42LIKE WHAT'S YOUR POLICY ABOUT?

2:15:44I THINK THE THE THE WHAT YOU

2:15:46CALL THE BOT OUTS LIKE EXTENDED

2:15:49SIDEWALK EXTENSIONS NARROWING

2:15:51THE DISTANCE FOR THAT AND THEN

2:15:53HOW DO YOU HANDLE BUS STOPS

2:15:56LIKE THIS?

2:15:57DO YOU HAVE LEVEL ONBOARDING?

2:15:59DOES THE BOAT OUT COME OUT TO

2:16:01MEET THE BUS RATHER THAN THE

2:16:02BUS PULLING UP TO THE CURB AND

2:16:04PULLING IN AND OUT?

2:16:04HOW DOES THAT WORK?

2:16:05YES COUNCILOR ALL OF THE ABOVE

2:16:08SOMERVILLE BUILDS BETWEEN 20

2:16:10AND 40 SPEED HUMPS PER YEAR.

2:16:12WE BUILD BETWEEN 5 AND 10

2:16:14RAISED CROSSWALKS PER YEAR,

2:16:16BETWEEN 2 AND 5 RAISED

2:16:17INTERSECTIONS PER YEAR, BETWEEN

2:16:202 AND 5 FLOATING BUS STOPS AND

2:16:21LARGE CURB EXTENSIONS PER YEAR.

2:16:24I MENTIONED BACK IN 2019 WE

2:16:25WERE STRUGGLING TO PRODUCE FIVE

2:16:27OF THESE TYPES OF TREATMENTS

2:16:29PER YEAR AND NOW WE'RE DOING 60

2:16:31OR 70.

2:16:31WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SCALE THAT

2:16:33INTERVENTION USING CONCRETE AND

2:16:34GRANITE AGAIN USING THOSE

2:16:35ANNUAL CONTRACTS AS WELL AS

2:16:37STATE AGENCY PARTNERSHIPS AS

2:16:38WELL AS DEVELOPMENT MITIGATION

2:16:40UM PARTNERSHIPS, UM AS WELL AS

2:16:42MBTA PARTNERSHIPS TO MAKE SURE

2:16:44THAT ANY TIME THERE'S DIGGING

2:16:45HAPPENING WE'RE LOOKING AT OUR

2:16:46HIGH CRASH NETWORK.

2:16:47WE'RE LOOKING AT THOSE EVIDENCE

2:16:48BASED TRAFFIC CALMING TOOLS AND

2:16:50WE'RE CHANGING THE GEOMETRY AND

2:16:51THE DESIGN OF OUR STREETS.

2:16:53I'M A NO.

2:16:54I'M A NO.

2:16:54THANK YOU SO MUCH.

2:16:56AND I THINK THIS MIGHT BE

2:16:57MERITS OF FURTHER CONVERSATION

2:16:58BUT WE'LL WE'LL FOLLOW UP.

2:16:59THANK YOU.

2:17:00>> THANK YOU.

2:17:01COUNCILOR BREADON AND I JUST

2:17:02GOT A TEXT FROM SOMEONE SAYING

2:17:04I LOVE THIS GUY FROM SOMERVILLE

2:17:06.

2:17:08HE SO, UM SO TAKE THAT BACK TO

2:17:10TAKE THAT BACK TO SOMERVILLE

2:17:11WITH YOU.

2:17:12I'M SURE THEY'RE REALLY HAPPY

2:17:13WITH THE YOU KNOW, THE WAY THAT

2:17:14YOU APPROACH YOUR JOB.

2:17:15SO, UM, COUNCILOR LOUIJEUNE,

2:17:17YOU HAVE THE FLOOR.

2:17:18THANK YOU.

2:17:18AND THANK YOU TO THIS PANEL FOR

2:17:19ALL THE INFO THE.

2:17:20INFORMATION THAT THAT YOU'VE

2:17:22PROVIDED.

2:17:22UM.

2:17:23>> THANK YOU.

2:17:24UM, DIRECTOR ROSS AND WE HAVE A

2:17:27GOOD STREETS.

2:17:28>> WE HAVE.

2:17:28A GOOD.

2:17:29>> TEAM HERE TOO.

2:17:29SO JUST WANT TO.

2:17:30>> MAKE SURE THAT WE TALK ABOUT

2:17:31THE WORK THAT.

2:17:31WE HAVE TO DO.

2:17:32JUST WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE.

2:17:33>> AND UPLIFT, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS

2:17:34A PHONE CALL AWAY AND AN EMAIL.

2:17:35ALWAYS WANTED TO APPRECIATE

2:17:36Y'ALL BUT UM.

2:17:38CHRIS WE WE.

2:17:39>> HAD TALKED ABOUT THE UH

2:17:40BOSTON SAFE DRIVER PROGRAM THAT

2:17:41WAS DONE IF YOU COULD TO TALK A

2:17:43LITTLE BIT ABOUT MORE OF THAT,

2:17:44WAS THAT JUST LIKE A GOOD THING

2:17:45THAT WE DID THAT MAKE US FEEL

2:17:46GOOD?

2:17:47DID WE GET LIKE IS ARE THERE

2:17:48THINGS THAT WE CAN DO GAIN FROM

2:17:50THAT TO INFORM LIKE HOW WE SORT

2:17:51OF CHANGE DRIVER BEHAVIOR?

2:17:53SURE.

2:17:54>> UM AND FOR THOSE NOT

2:17:55FAMILIAR UH, WE RAN A PROGRAM

2:17:57HERE WHEN I WHEN I USED TO WORK

2:17:58AT THE CITY UH, IN 2016 AND

2:18:012019 CALLED BOSTON SAFE AS

2:18:02DRIVER WAS A COMPETITION WHERE

2:18:04WE PAY PEOPLE TO BE GOOD

2:18:05DRIVERS.

2:18:06UM, SO THEY DOWNLOADED A PHONE

2:18:07APP.

2:18:07UM, UH, THAT'S PROVIDED BY

2:18:09CAMBRIDGE MOBILE TELEMATICS.

2:18:11UH, IT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY

2:18:13SELL THROUGH INSURANCE

2:18:14COMPANIES OFTEN LIKE IF YOU

2:18:15EVER USE PROGRESSIVE AND

2:18:16THEY'RE LIKE YEP.

2:18:18SO WE MADE THAT OPEN TO THE

2:18:19PUBLIC AND WE DID A COMPETITION

2:18:20UH AND THE BEST DRIVERS AFTER

2:18:22UH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF TIME

2:18:23WERE AWARDED CASH PRIZES AND

2:18:25THAT KIND OF THING.

2:18:26UM, WE DID IT TWICE.

2:18:28UH, WE SAW MEANINGFUL

2:18:29REDUCTIONS IN SPEEDING BRAKING,

2:18:32UH, LIKE HEARTBREAKING.

2:18:33HARSH CORNERING AND PHONE

2:18:35DISTRACTION AND BOTH OF THOSE

2:18:37RUNS.

2:18:38SO YOU REMEMBER HOW MANY.

2:18:39PEOPLE PARTICIPATED OR IS IT

2:18:40TOO FAR AWAY?

2:18:40IT'S.

2:18:41UH I WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND

2:18:42LOOK AT THE REPORTS, BUT IT'S A

2:18:43IT'S LIKE IN THE THOUSANDS, UH

2:18:44,INCLUDING SOME ELECTED

2:18:45OFFICIALS THAT LEARNED THAT

2:18:46THEY MAYBE WEREN'T DRIVING AS

2:18:47SAFE AS THEY COULD.

2:18:48UM, I THINK WE SAW PEOPLE'S

2:18:50BEHAVIOR CHANGE VERY QUICKLY

2:18:52AFTER THE FIRST WEEK OR TWO.

2:18:54UM, AND THEN WE SAW THAT

2:18:55SUSTAINED THROUGHOUT UM, THOSE

2:18:57TYPES OF THINGS HAD TO BE RUN

2:18:58AGAIN AND AGAIN.

2:18:58IT'S YOU KNOW, IT'S A PUBLIC

2:19:00MESSAGING CAMPAIGN, RIGHT?

2:19:00AND SO YOU CAN BUILD THAT

2:19:02BEHAVIOR AND IT LASTS FOR A

2:19:03WHILE AND THEN YOU HAVE TO HAVE

2:19:04IT AGAIN.

2:19:05UM, WHAT WE SEE NOW IS THAT

2:19:06PEOPLE ARE TAKING THOSE

2:19:07TELEMATICS UH I THINK THAT SO

2:19:09THIS WHOLE FIELD IS CALLED

2:19:10TELEMATICS.

2:19:10THEY'RE PUTTING THAT IN THE

2:19:11VEHICLE UM, COMMERCIAL FLEETS

2:19:13ARE HAVING ON VEHICLES PUBLIC

2:19:14FLEETS HAVE THEIR OWN VEHICLES

2:19:15AND THEY'RE USING THAT TO COACH

2:19:17THEIR DRIVERS.

2:19:18UH, IF THEY'RE MAYBE NOT DOING

2:19:20THE RIGHT THING ON THE ROADWAY.

2:19:21AND SO THAT'S SHOWING UP IN AND

2:19:22YOU KNOW, PRIVATE COMPANIES AS

2:19:23WELL AS YOU KNOW, CITIES AND

2:19:25TOWNS ACROSS THE COUNTRY WHERE

2:19:26YOU'VE GOT THIS DEVICE THAT'S

2:19:27NOW IN THAT VEHICLE AND IDEALLY

2:19:31IF YOU GET MORE AND MORE PEOPLE

2:19:32SORT OF MONITORING THAT KIND

2:19:33OF DRIVING, IT HAS SORT OF LIKE

2:19:34A PACE CAR EFFECT MAYBE ON THE

2:19:36ROADWAY AS WELL.

2:19:37YEAH.

2:19:38>> I WONDER IF THE INCENTIVE IS

2:19:39LIKE THE INCENTIVE COMPONENT IS

2:19:41IS IMPORTANT.

2:19:42UH YEAH THE THE PRIZE WAS LIKE

2:19:45IMPORTANT IN THAT COMPETITION

2:19:47UM JUST TO DRAW PEOPLE INTO THE

2:19:49THE APP.

2:19:50UM BUT WE DID SEE A FAIR AMOUNT

2:19:51OF LIKE ORGANIC COMPETITION AND

2:19:52PEOPLE WANTED TO COMPETE

2:19:54AGAINST THEIR OFTEN THEIR CHILD

2:19:55THEIR TEEN DRIVER IN THEIR

2:19:56HOUSE UM AND SOMETIMES IN THE

2:19:59WORKPLACE WE HAD LIKE A DOCTOR

2:20:00NURSES COMPETITION THAT WAS

2:20:01GOING ON AT A FEW OF THE

2:20:02HOSPITALS AND SO YOU KNOW,

2:20:05THERE'S THERE'S OPPORTUNITY

2:20:05THERE UH, SHOULD THE CITY WANT

2:20:07TO PURCHASE IT AGAIN?

2:20:08UM, CAN I ADD TO THAT THE I

2:20:09ACTUALLY WORKED FOR.

2:20:10CAMBRIDGE MOBILE TELEMATICS FOR

2:20:11FIVE YEARS INCLUDING EVALUATING

2:20:13SOME OF THESE.

2:20:14PROGRAMS AND.

2:20:15ACTUALLY I THINK ONE OF THE

2:20:16BEST THINGS THAT CMT HAS DONE

2:20:18RECENTLY.

2:20:18IS TO.

2:20:19>> PARTNER WITH UBER.

2:20:20SO UH, UBER DRIVERS NOW SEE

2:20:22THEIR SCORE IN THE APP AND I

2:20:24THINK IT'S EXPANDING TO LIKE

2:20:25UBER EATS DRIVERS.

2:20:27SO THAT MIGHT.

2:20:28HELP ENCOURAGE THEM TO DRIVE

2:20:30MORE APPROPRIATELY.

2:20:32>> THEIR THEIR OVERALL SCORE

2:20:33THAT CAN BE ABOUT WHETHER THEY

2:20:35HAVE LIKE A GAME OR A CHARGER

2:20:36IN THEIR CAR.

2:20:37BUT THERE'S A IS THERE A SCORE

2:20:39SPECIFICALLY ABOUT LIKE HOW

2:20:40THEY'RE DRIVING?

2:20:40SO IT'S THE.

2:20:41SAME KIND OF THING SPEEDING

2:20:43HEARTBREAKING THOSE KIND

2:20:45OF METRICS.

2:20:45YEAH THE WAY THEY'VE ADDED IT

2:20:46AND.

2:20:47>> THIS NO.

2:20:47WHAT I WHAT I MEAN IS I DON'T

2:20:49KNOW I GUESS I YOU DON'T USE

2:20:51UBER THAT MUCH I USE IT A BIT

2:20:52BUT LIKE.

2:20:53IT IS DO YOU GET IS IT ON UBER

2:20:56THEY GIVE YOU A SCORE JUST LIKE

2:20:57I'M A DRIVER I GIVE YOU A

2:20:59SCORES OR A SEPARATE SCORE THAT

2:21:00UBER IS GIVING TO DRIVERS BASED

2:21:02SOLELY ON HOW THEY WERE

2:21:04DRIVING.

2:21:05>> SO IN.

2:21:05>> THE UBER.

2:21:06APP THE.

2:21:06UBER DRIVERS NOT PASSENGERS BUT

2:21:09DRIVERS CAN SEE.

2:21:10CHECK OUT YOUR SCORE FROM CMT

2:21:12HOW YOU'RE RATED OH.

2:21:13>> FROM.

2:21:13CMT AND IT'S.

2:21:14LIKE SPEEDING OR WHATEVER.

2:21:15AND THE WAY THEY'VE

2:21:16INCORPORATED IN IS THAT.

2:21:17AND ONLY DRIVERS HAVE A CERTAIN

2:21:19MINIMUM SCORE CAN GET TO THEIR

2:21:22LIKE HIGHEST TIER OF REWARDS AS

2:21:24BEING.

2:21:24INTEREST WITH THEIR DRIVER

2:21:25RETENTION PROGRAM.

2:21:26OKAY.

2:21:27>> THANK YOU.

2:21:27THANK YOU.

2:21:29UM DIRECTOR ROSS YOU TALKED

2:21:30ABOUT RAISED CROSSWALKS ARE

2:21:31ALL.

2:21:32THE ARE ALL.

2:21:32THE UH ALL THE CROSSWALKS.

2:21:36IN SOMERVILLE RAISED

2:21:39CROSSWALKS.

2:21:40THANKS FOR THE QUESTION,

2:21:41COUNCILOR.

2:21:41NO THEY'RE NOT UH IN FACT A

2:21:42VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE ARE

2:21:44HOWEVER, WHEN WE ARE

2:21:45RECONSTRUCTING STREETS THAT IS

2:21:46THE STANDARD CONSTRUCTION

2:21:48DETAIL THAT WE STRIVE FOR

2:21:50PARTICULARLY ON OUR HIGHER

2:21:51VOLUME STREETS STREETS TO CARRY

2:21:53MORE BUSSES FOR EXAMPLE SPEED

2:21:55HUMPS DON'T TEND TO WORK WELL

2:21:56ON THOSE HIGHER VOLUME HIGHER

2:21:57SPEED BUS TRUCK AND FIRE

2:21:59RESPONSE ROUTES.

2:22:00AS A RESULT WE USE THE FLAT

2:22:01TOPS RAISE CROSSWALKS AS PART

2:22:03OF OUR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

2:22:04ALL RIGHT SO IT'S SORT OF LIKE

2:22:06A RAISED CROSS FOR MAIN

2:22:07THOROUGHFARE JUST LIKE A RAISED

2:22:08CROSSWALKS OKAY.

2:22:09WHAT PERCENTAGE OF YOUR CITY

2:22:10WOULD YOU SAY THE CROSSWALKS

2:22:11ARE RAISED CROSSWALKS.

2:22:13OH UH COUNCIL I SHOULD BE ABLE

2:22:14TO RECITE THAT TO YOU.

2:22:15I WOULD IMAGINE THAT WE'VE GOT

2:22:16FEWER THAN 100.

2:22:17>> WE DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO

2:22:18A QUESTION.

2:22:19HOW DO YOU KNOW.

2:22:19IF YOU WERE THE 103 WITH FEWER

2:22:21THAN 100 FOR SURE.

2:22:22BUT AGAIN BUILDING 5 OR 10 PER

2:22:23YEAR.

2:22:24OKAY THANK YOU.

2:22:24AND THEN.

2:22:25YEAH GO AHEAD.

2:22:26>> JUST ONE QUESTION ABOUT YOU

2:22:27TALKED ABOUT MAKING SURE THAT

2:22:29UH THESE PROJECTS WEREN'T PART

2:22:31OF ANY LIKE ONE TIME FUNDING

2:22:32WHICH I ASSUME THAT MEANS YOU

2:22:34DIDN'T USE ANY ARPA FUNDING TO

2:22:35FUND ANY OF THESE PROJECTS.

2:22:37UM, IS THERE ANYTHING THAT YOU

2:22:39DID IN PARTICULAR TO ENSURE

2:22:41THAT THERE WAS MONEY IN THE

2:22:43CAPITAL EITHER CAPITAL

2:22:45OPERATING BUDGET, UH, TO

2:22:47EXECUTE ON THE PROJECTS?

2:22:49THANKS FOR CLARIFYING.

2:22:50COUNCILOR UM SOMERVILLE USES

2:22:52CAPITAL DOLLARS.

2:22:53HOWEVER THAT TENDS TO BE A

2:22:55FEAST OR FAMINE KIND OF DYNAMIC

2:22:56.

2:22:56OFTEN IT CAN TAKE 5 TO 10 YEARS

2:22:59FOR FEDERAL AID PROJECTS TO OUR

2:23:01MPO FOR EXAMPLE.

2:23:02OFTEN IT CAN TAKE 3 TO 7 YEARS

2:23:05FOR A BIG INTEGRATED CITY SEWER

2:23:06SEPARATION PROJECT THERE

2:23:08ULTIMATELY REBUILDS AN AMAZING

2:23:10STREET.

2:23:11UM AS A RESULT, NOT ONLY DO WE

2:23:13TRY TO DO THOSE THINGS BUT WE

2:23:14TRY TO HAVE THE ANNUAL PROGRAMS

2:23:16COMPLIMENT THEM KNOWING THAT

2:23:17THAT FEAST OR FAMINE DYNAMIC

2:23:18CAN EXIST.

2:23:20THANK YOU.

2:23:20>> THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

2:23:21THANK YOU.

2:23:21>> WE'VE GOT A LOT OF FOLKS TO

2:23:24TESTIFY AND SO I DON'T WANT TO

2:23:25GO ON TOO LONG, BUT UM, JUST

2:23:27PETER, UM, FIRST, UM, THANK YOU

2:23:29FOR BEING HERE.

2:23:30UM, ARE THERE OTHER LARGE

2:23:32CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES

2:23:33THAT HAVE BUILT STRONG

2:23:35COMPREHENSIVE BIKE NETWORKS

2:23:35THAT YOU WOULD, YOU KNOW,

2:23:37POISED AS BEING COMPARABLE TO

2:23:39BOSTON?

2:23:40AND WHAT LESSONS DO YOU THINK

2:23:42WE CAN LEARN FROM OTHER US

2:23:43CITIES?

2:23:43BECAUSE I THINK WE'RE OFTEN

2:23:44TRYING TO COMPARE OURSELVES AND

2:23:46GET TO, YOU KNOW, A EUROPEAN

2:23:48MODEL AND I'M SORT OF JUST

2:23:49CURIOUS IF THERE'S ANYTHING

2:23:50SIMILAR IN THE US THAT YOU

2:23:52WOULD RECOMMEND.

2:23:54WE GOT WE GOT JUST ABOUT THE

2:23:56BEST RIGHT ACROSS THE RIVER IN

2:23:58CAMBRIDGE.

2:23:59UH, AND SO WE SHOULD LEARN ALL

2:24:02WE CAN FROM THEM.

2:24:03I WOULD SAY THE MAIN THING THAT

2:24:04WE'VE LEARNED FROM CAMBRIDGE IS

2:24:05THIS THEY STARTED LIKE ANYBODY

2:24:08ELSE DO IT WHERE IT'S EASY

2:24:10WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE

2:24:12AWAY ANYBODY'S PARKING, YOU

2:24:13DON'T HAVE TO TAKE AWAY TRAVEL

2:24:15LANES AND SO ON AND YOU RUN OUT

2:24:18OF WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH EASILY

2:24:20THE LOW HANGING FRUIT AND UH

2:24:23NOW THEY ARE IN SOMERVILLE THE

2:24:25SAME WAY SAYING SAFETY IS IS

2:24:29IMPORTANT, PARKING IS IMPORTANT

2:24:30BUT PARKING SORRY YOU DON'T GET

2:24:32BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET

2:24:33BECAUSE WE NEED THE STREET FOR

2:24:36UH THE TRAVELING IN PUBLIC AND

2:24:37FOR THEIR SAFETY AND THEY'VE

2:24:39THEY'VE JUST BURST THROUGH SO

2:24:41FAR TO BE ABLE TO MAKE A

2:24:43CONNECTED NETWORK.

2:24:44UH, ANOTHER THING TO COMPARE

2:24:45WITH OTHER CITIES LIKE, UH,

2:24:47WASHINGTON DC AND UH MANHATTAN

2:24:50AND BROOKLYN IN NEW YORK THEY

2:24:52HAVE GREAT CONNECTED NETWORKS

2:24:54BUT THEY BENEFIT FROM HAVING A

2:24:56GRID IN PORTLAND, OREGON.

2:24:58ALSO, UH, WHEN YOU HAVE A GRID

2:24:59YOU CAN SAY WELL FIRST STREET.

2:25:02WE'LL TRY TO PRIORITIZE THAT

2:25:04ONE FOR CARS AND JUST ONE

2:25:05SHORT.

2:25:06BLOCK OVER THE.

2:25:07SECOND STREET THAT CAN BE A

2:25:08GREAT STREET FOR BIKES.

2:25:10BOSTON WE HARDLY EVER HAVE ANY

2:25:12OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT IN

2:25:14BOSTON.

2:25:14WE PRETTY MUCH HAVE TO MAKE

2:25:16EVERY ONE OF OUR ARTERIALS AND

2:25:17COLLECTOR STREETS SAFE FOR

2:25:19BIKES BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE

2:25:20BIKES ARE GOING TO BE RIDING

2:25:22AND UH SO THEREFORE THE LESSONS

2:25:24WE NEED TO LEARN ARE HOW CAN WE

2:25:26FIT PROTECTED BIKE

2:25:28INFRASTRUCTURE.

2:25:29ON OUR.

2:25:30>> NARROW STREETS BECAUSE WE'VE

2:25:31DONE WHAT WE CAN BUT WE'VE DONE

2:25:34THE LOW HANGING FRUIT WHERE YOU

2:25:36CAN PUT BIKE LANES WITHOUT

2:25:38REMOVING PARKING WITHOUT TAKING

2:25:39AWAY LANES.

2:25:40UM NOW HOW CAN WE UH, GO

2:25:43FURTHER THAN THAT?

2:25:44AND UH, I THINK WE CAN LEARN A

2:25:46LOT FROM CITIES THAT ARE

2:25:47LEARNING THAT, UH, HAVING A TWO

2:25:49WAY BIKE PATH ON ONE SIDE

2:25:51OF THE ROAD IT MAY NOT BE THE

2:25:52IDEAL SITUATION, BUT IT'S

2:25:53BETTER THAN HAVING NO PROTECTED

2:25:55BIKE LANE AT ALL AND THAT WAY

2:25:57YOU CAN THAT'S UP THE WAY THAT

2:25:59YOU CAN FIT A PROTECTED BIKE

2:26:02PATH ON A ROAD.

2:26:04UH, AND ONLY REMOVING ONE LANE

2:26:05OF PARKING INSTEAD OF REMOVING

2:26:07BOTH LANES OF PARKING FOR

2:26:08EXAMPLE.

2:26:09THANK YOU.

2:26:09UM, SHOULD WE PRIORITIZE HUMAN

2:26:12LIVES OVER.

2:26:14THE CONVENIENCE OF DRIVERS?

2:26:18YEAH.

2:26:19>> WHEN WHEN?

2:26:20>> YOU KNOW, I'M ASKING THIS

2:26:21AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A CRAZY

2:26:23QUESTION, BUT THOSE ARE THE

2:26:25CONVERSATIONS THAT WE ARE

2:26:26HAVING IN COMMUNITIES IN MY

2:26:28NEIGHBORHOODS EVERY SINGLE DAY

2:26:30.

2:26:31SO I DON'T YOU KNOW, I I HEARD

2:26:32THE SHOCK AND ALL HERE BUT

2:26:35LITERALLY I WE HAD PEOPLE TODAY

2:26:37SAY THINGS THAT REALLY GOT IT

2:26:40GET AT THE IMPACT THERE AND SO

2:26:43UM I YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE MISSED

2:26:45IT BUT I DEFINITELY HEARD

2:26:46COMMENTS TODAY SPOKEN OF YEAH

2:26:49BUT OF PRIORITIZING CONVENIENCE

2:26:53OF DRIVERS OVER BIKES AND OVER

2:26:56PEDESTRIANS AND OVER UM SO I'M

2:26:59JUST CURIOUS LIKE PETER, AS

2:27:00SOMEONE WHO'S WORKED REALLY

2:27:01DEEPLY ON THIS, HOW SHOULD WE

2:27:03THINK ABOUT IT AS A CITY?

2:27:05WELL REMEMBER THAT, UH, WE

2:27:08CANNOT GUARANTEE PARKING SPACES

2:27:09FOR EVERYBODY.

2:27:10WE'RE ALREADY WAY BEYOND UH,

2:27:13THE DEMAND FOR PARKING SPACES

2:27:16COMPARED TO WHAT WE HAVE IN OUR

2:27:17CROWDED NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE

2:27:18SOUTH BOSTON AND BACK BAY, UH,

2:27:20AND MANY OTHER PLACES.

2:27:22SO, UH.

2:27:23THERE HAS TO BE A LITTLE BIT

2:27:25OF SELECTION GOING ON IF YOU

2:27:27WANT A LIFESTYLE WITH A LOT

2:27:29OF CARS, WELL THEN MAYBE THESE

2:27:31CROWDED NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT

2:27:32THE PLACE FOR YOU TO LIVE.

2:27:33PEOPLE MOVE AROUND THEM, THEY

2:27:35MAKE CHOICES AND UH, MEANWHILE

2:27:38IF YOU WANT UH UM IF WE WANT TO

2:27:41HAVE MOBILITY AND ECONOMIC

2:27:44ACTIVITY AND AND JOY OF OF

2:27:48MOVEMENT WE NEED TO HAVE A SAFE

2:27:50PLACE TO RIDE A BIKE ON ON

2:27:51STREETS LIKE MISSION UH LIKE

2:27:53TREMONT STREET ON MISSION HILL

2:27:54WHERE.

2:27:55LUIS AGAG WAS KILLED.

2:27:56YOU CAN'T PROVIDE SEPARATED

2:27:58BIKE LANES THERE WITHOUT

2:27:59REMOVING PARKING.

2:28:00BUT ON A STREET LIKE.

2:28:02THAT TO ME IT'S ABSOLUTELY

2:28:04CLEAR THAT.

2:28:05THE THE.

2:28:06SAFETY OF PEOPLE RIDING A BIKE

2:28:08AND THE AND THE ECONOMIC

2:28:10DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY DEPENDS

2:28:13ON HAVING SAFE BICYCLING AND UH

2:28:15IT JUST PUTS IT PUTS A LITTLE

2:28:17BIT MORE SQUEEZE ON PARKING

2:28:18WHICH IS ALREADY SQUEEZED.

2:28:20THANK YOU.

2:28:21AND I'M I'M PROUD OF LIKE MY

2:28:24CONSTITUENTS THAT REACH OUT TO

2:28:25ME I THINK THAT THE MORE

2:28:27COMMENTS THAT I'VE MADE ABOUT

2:28:30STREET SAFETY, UM, THE MORE

2:28:33THAT I HEAR FROM PEOPLE WHO

2:28:34CARE ABOUT THAT ISSUE IN

2:28:36PARTICULAR.

2:28:36AND I THINK THAT UM, SOMETIMES

2:28:39BY NATURE OF WHO WE ARE AND

2:28:41WHAT WE TALK ABOUT AND WHAT WE

2:28:42CARE ABOUT, WE ARE

2:28:44SELF-SELECTING OUR

2:28:45CONSTITUENTS, YOU KNOW, AND I

2:28:48JUST THINK AS A CITY WE WHEN WE

2:28:49TALK ABOUT THE PUBLIC PROCESS

2:28:51AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE WAY

2:28:53THAT WE APPROACH THESE ISSUES,

2:28:55WE ARE SELF-SELECTING FOR

2:28:56PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT CHANGE TO

2:28:58HAPPEN.

2:28:59AND UNFORTUNATELY OR

2:29:01FORTUNATELY I AND MY LEADERSHIP

2:29:03IS THE EMBODIMENT OF THAT

2:29:05CHANGE.

2:29:06I DON'T HAVE A CAR.

2:29:07I'M A RENTER.

2:29:08I MOVED HERE 11 YEARS AGO.

2:29:09I'M FROM GEORGIA.

2:29:11YOU KNOW I UM HAVE MADE IT IN

2:29:13THE CITY.

2:29:14I LOVE THE CITY.

2:29:15IT'S GIVEN ME EVERYTHING.

2:29:16WE NEED MORE PEOPLE TO BE ABLE

2:29:18TO LIVE IN THIS CITY WHO DON'T

2:29:20HAVE THE AREN'T ABLE TO

2:29:23FINANCIALLY COMMIT TO CAR

2:29:24OWNERSHIP, NOR SHOULD WE BE

2:29:25EXPANDING THAT WE WILL BE

2:29:27VOTING ON ELIMINATING PARKING

2:29:29MINIMUMS FOR NEW RESIDENTIAL

2:29:30DEVELOPMENT CITYWIDE THIS MONTH

2:29:33.

2:29:34AND SO I JUST THINK THAT WE

2:29:36REALLY NEED TO HAVE A

2:29:38CONVERSATION BECAUSE WHEN WE

2:29:39TALK ABOUT NOT HAVING ENOUGH

2:29:41PARKING SPACES, WE REALLY ARE

2:29:44ENCOURAGING CARS TO COME TO THE

2:29:46CITY BY MAKING AND MANDATING

2:29:49PARKING FOR SMALL DEVELOPMENT

2:29:53IN BOSTON.

2:29:53AND THAT'S REALLY THIS

2:29:54DEVELOPMENT THIS UM PROPOSAL

2:29:57THAT I HAVE PUT FORWARD AND

2:29:59THAT THERE'S CURRENTLY IN THIS

2:30:00COMMITTEE UM I THINK IT'S

2:30:02REALLY IMPORTANT, UM, THAT WE

2:30:05ARE ACTIVE IN THAT SPACE

2:30:06BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE MA PC

2:30:10WE ARE ENCOURAGING NEW CARS TO

2:30:13COME TO OUR CITY BY MANDATING

2:30:16PARKING THAT WE WOULD LIKE

2:30:18SOMEONE TO PAY FOR IN ORDER TO

2:30:20MAKE THESE PROJECTS WORK.

2:30:22SO UM, WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT

2:30:23IS PARKING FLEXIBILITY AND I

2:30:26THINK THAT IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S

2:30:28DISCONNECTED BUT IT'S TOTALLY

2:30:30CONNECTED BECAUSE HOW DO WE

2:30:31BUILD A CITY FOR EVERYONE IF WE

2:30:35EXPECT?

2:30:38RENTERS WHO DON'T HAVE CARS TO

2:30:41PAY FOR PARKING?

2:30:42IT'S IT'S ACTUALLY NUTS AND I I

2:30:44HOPE THAT WE TAKE THE POLITICAL

2:30:47LEADERSHIP ON THIS COUNCIL TO

2:30:48GET THAT ISSUE DONE.

2:30:49THE VOTE WILL BE ON NOVEMBER

2:30:5118TH.

2:30:52WE HAVE A WORKING SESSION ON

2:30:54NOVEMBER 16TH AT 2 P.M. UM, AND

2:30:56I HOPE THAT FOLKS ARE ABLE WHO

2:30:59CARE ABOUT THIS ISSUE TO BE

2:31:00ABLE TO CONNECT THIS ISSUE WITH

2:31:02THAT ONE BECAUSE IT IT REALLY

2:31:04IS INTERCONNECTED.

2:31:05UM, AND IT'LL HELP SOMERVILLE

2:31:06AND IT'LL HELP OUR STATE AND

2:31:08IT'LL HELP EVERYONE TO

2:31:10ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, UM, WE ARE

2:31:13INDUCING CARS TO COME TO OUR

2:31:15CITY BY MANDATING PARKING ON

2:31:17SMALL DEVELOPMENTS.

2:31:19BY THE WAY, ARTICLE 80 WOULD

2:31:21NOT BE TOUCHED BY THIS PROPOSAL

2:31:23AT ALL JUST SMALL PROJECTS.

2:31:26SO UM, THANK YOU TO MY

2:31:28COLLEAGUES FOR UM, INDULGING

2:31:30ME WITH THAT ONE.

2:31:30I WANT TO THANK OUR PANEL.

2:31:32UM, AND I WANT TO GIVE A CHANCE

2:31:34FOR, UM, LAST STATEMENTS, BUT

2:31:36I'M GOING TO MOVE TO PUBLIC

2:31:37TESTIMONY NOW.

2:31:38THANK YOU.

2:31:39UH, TO PETER FOR THANK YOU

2:31:41CHRIS.

2:31:41THANK YOU PAUL.

2:31:43UM, AND I KNOW THAT WE UM AND

2:31:46THANK YOU TO JERRY.

2:31:47UM, I REALLY APPRECIATE I KNOW

2:31:49THAT WE HAVE UM, WANT TO GIVE

2:31:51MAYBE IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY I

2:31:53KNOW JERRY WHO DIDN'T ANSWER

2:31:54MANY QUESTIONS.

2:31:55AND SO IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY

2:31:57FINAL STATEMENTS BEFORE YOU

2:31:58BEFORE YOU'RE RELIEVED, FEEL

2:32:00FREE TO TAKE THOSE NOW.

2:32:03I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING PREPARED

2:32:04.

2:32:05UM.

2:32:05>> BUT I.

2:32:08THINK SOMETHING THAT I'VE.

2:32:09SEEN I'LL.

2:32:09>> JUST TAKE.

2:32:10REALLY A SECOND.

2:32:11BUT UM.

2:32:13IS I FEEL LIKE CURRENTLY THE

2:32:15CITY JUST HAS NOT REALLY

2:32:16COMMITTED TO ACTUALLY EXPANDING

2:32:18AND MAKING BICYCLING UM AN

2:32:21INTEGRAL PART OF ITS

2:32:22TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM.

2:32:23AND TO ME COMMITMENT MEANS WE

2:32:27ARE GOING TO.

2:32:28HAVE A.

2:32:30CLEAR CITYWIDE BICYCLE NETWORK

2:32:32PLAN WITH CLEAR DEADLINES FOR

2:32:34WHEN WE ARE BUILDING OUT THAT

2:32:36PLAN.

2:32:37AND UM, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE

2:32:39THIS ADMINISTRATION TAKE THAT.

2:32:41LEAD AND I'D.

2:32:42ALSO LIKE TO SEE THE CITY

2:32:44COUNCIL HOLD THE CITY

2:32:45ACCOUNTABLE TO.

2:32:46>> BUILDING OUT THAT PLAN

2:32:47THROUGH LEGISLATION.

2:32:48THANK YOU JERRY.

2:32:50UM, WE'LL BE WORKING ON THAT

2:32:51TOGETHER.

2:32:51YEAH.

2:32:52THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP

2:32:53AND THANK YOU.

2:32:54YOU KNOW, MAYBE TWO YEARS AGO

2:32:55FOR INVITING ME TO A NEW

2:32:57URBANIST MEETING, UM, WHERE I

2:32:58LEARNED THAT SROS ARE BAD AND

2:33:01EVEN PAINT AND IS BETTER THAN

2:33:03EVEN PAINT AND GREEN LINES ARE

2:33:05BETTER THAN SROS.

2:33:06I LEARNED THAT WITH A VIEW

2:33:08URBANIST AND I WANT TO THANK

2:33:09YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.

2:33:10ANYONE ANY ELSE ANY OTHER LAST

2:33:12STATEMENTS?

2:33:12YEAH.

2:33:13I'LL SAY THAT I HEARD RECENTLY

2:33:14ABOUT SOMEONE WHO.

2:33:17NEEDED TO GET INTO.

2:33:18THE LEFT TURN LANE AND NEAR

2:33:19FOREST HILLS AND WAS

2:33:21COMPLAINING THAT DRIVERS ALL

2:33:22THE TIME ARE, YOU KNOW, HONKING

2:33:25AND YELLING AND THAT'S WHAT I

2:33:27WAS TRYING TO GET AT THAT I

2:33:28THINK THE COUNCIL SHOULD LOOK

2:33:30INTO THAT ISSUE BECAUSE WE NEED

2:33:33TO USE ALL OF THE STREETS AND

2:33:36UM THAT BEHAVIOR IS JUST

2:33:37UNACCEPTABLE AND I THINK THERE

2:33:38ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO TO

2:33:40MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE WHO DO

2:33:42THAT THINK TWICE ABOUT IT

2:33:44BECAUSE THEY MIGHT GET THEIR

2:33:45LICENSE SUSPENDED FOR A.

2:33:46MONTH OR HAVE A SERIOUS FINE.

2:33:48AND UM.

2:33:49YEAH.

2:33:50>> THANK YOU.

2:33:51I WAS VERY PUBLIC ABOUT BEING

2:33:53HECKLED UM, ON A ROADWAY IN

2:33:55BOSTON AND I ENDED UP GETTING A

2:33:57LOT OF HEAT FOR BEING HECKLED,

2:33:59ENDED UP ON LIKE LIBS OF TIKTOK

2:34:00AND ALL THIS JUST SO MUCH HATE.

2:34:02UM, BUT LIKE EVERY BIKER AND

2:34:05EVERY PEDESTRIAN HAS

2:34:07EXPERIENCED THAT KIND OF UH,

2:34:09HONESTLY VIOLENCE AND VIOLENT

2:34:11RHETORIC FROM DRIVERS.

2:34:12UM, SO IT'S I'M HAPPY THAT I

2:34:14SPOKE THAT INTO EXISTENCE OR AT

2:34:16LEAST TALKED ABOUT IT BECAUSE

2:34:18IT'S REAL AND UM AND IT'S SCARY

2:34:21UM, WHEN YOU'RE WHEN YOU ARE A

2:34:23VULNERABLE ROAD USER.

2:34:24UH, PETER, DID YOU HAVE

2:34:25ANYTHING ONLINE?

2:34:28UM, YEAH.

2:34:30IF NOT WHEN PREPARING FOR THIS

2:34:32AND REVIEWING THIS I LOOKED

2:34:33OVER THE HISTORY OF, UH, BIKE

2:34:36NETWORK PLANNING IN BOSTON.

2:34:37I'VE SEEN PLANS FROM, YOU KNOW,

2:34:391990S AND SO ON BUT WE HAVE A

2:34:42HISTORY OF IS PEOPLE MAKE PLANS

2:34:43AND THEN THEY DO NOTHING.

2:34:45UH, SO THE MAYOR MENINO MADE A

2:34:48PLAN UH, BUT DIDN'T DO ANY

2:34:50OF IT.

2:34:51THE NEXT MAYOR, UH, SAID STOP

2:34:54EVERYTHING WHILE WE MAKE A NEW

2:34:55PLAN AND DID AS LITTLE AS AS HE

2:34:58COULD.

2:34:58UH, AND YOU KNOW ON THAT NOW

2:35:01THE NEXT MAYOR ACTUALLY BUILT

2:35:03MORE THE CURRENT MAYOR THAT

2:35:04ACTUALLY BUILT MORE THAN OTHERS

2:35:06BUT NO ONE HAS BEEN COMMITTED

2:35:09TO HERE'S A PLAN AND WE'RE

2:35:10GOING TO DO THIS MANY MILES A

2:35:11YEAR AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE

2:35:13THIS NETWORK HAPPEN.

2:35:14SO I HOPE THAT'S WHAT UH THE

2:35:18THIS HEARING AND THE

2:35:20LEGISLATION YOU'RE THINKING

2:35:21OF WILL LEAD TO.

2:35:22THANK YOU PETER.

2:35:24AND I'LL JUST SAY IN MY

2:35:25DISTRICT UM, PARTLY WHY IT IN

2:35:27IN YOUR PRESENTATION IS LOW

2:35:29STRESS IS BECAUSE OF A LOT

2:35:30OF THE BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE THAT

2:35:32HAS BEEN BUILT UNDER THIS

2:35:33ADMINISTRATION.

2:35:34YEAH.

2:35:34AND AND IT WAS PLANNED FOR

2:35:36UNDER THE LAST ADMINISTRATION

2:35:37AND WHAT I'M HOPING FOR IS THAT

2:35:40WE CAN GET TO A POINT WHERE

2:35:41WORKING WITH THE CITY

2:35:42COUNCIL AND THE ADMINISTRATION

2:35:44UM, WE GET TO A POINT WHERE

2:35:45WE'RE LOOKING OUT THE NEXT 20

2:35:47YEARS AND WE'RE SAYING, YOU

2:35:49KNOW, WITH THE LIMITED DOLLARS

2:35:50AND WITH EVERYTHING WHERE ARE

2:35:52THE QUICK FIXES MAKE WE CAN

2:35:53MAKE WHAT ARE THE NEXT WHAT ARE

2:35:55THE CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WE

2:35:57HOPE TO DO?

2:35:57UM, WE AND I THINK TOGETHER WE

2:36:00HAVE SOME REAL CONSENSUS RIGHT

2:36:02NOW UM TO REALLY MOVE ON THAT

2:36:04AND I JUST WANT TO THANK I DO I

2:36:06THINK WE NEED TO LEAD WITH THE

2:36:08ENGINEERS AND WE NEED TO LEAD

2:36:09WITH THE FACTS AND I THINK

2:36:10PETER AND EVERYONE ON THIS

2:36:12PANEL YOU'VE HELPED US REALLY

2:36:14WITH YOUR TESTIMONY, UM, GET

2:36:16OUT A LOT OF DIFFERENT FACTORS

2:36:18OF WHAT WE SHOULD BE THINKING

2:36:19ABOUT AND THE STRESS THE STRESS

2:36:21LEVEL OF BIKING IS NOT

2:36:22SOMETHING THAT IT'S SOMETHING

2:36:23I'VE ACKNOWLEDGED AS SOMEONE ON

2:36:25A BIKE, BUT IT'S SOMETHING I'VE

2:36:26NEVER HEARD SPOKEN ABOUT IN A

2:36:29PUBLIC SETTING.

2:36:29SO PETER, THANK YOU FOR THAT.

2:36:31AND UM AND I KNOW THAT THIS UH,

2:36:33HEARING HAD MULTIPLE ANGLES

2:36:35INCLUDING UM, TRUCK SAFETY AND

2:36:37I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF STEPS

2:36:38THAT WE HAVE ON THAT WE ARE

2:36:40GOING TO GO TO PUBLIC

2:36:41TESTIMONY.

2:36:41THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WAITING.

2:36:43UM, STARTING WITH TONY BAEZ AND

2:36:46THEN ZACHARY YARROW, SUE

2:36:48DOWNING EACH PERSON IS GOING TO

2:36:50BE ABLE GIVEN THREE HOUR

2:36:52SORRY GIVEN TWO MINUTES.

2:36:53UM AND I JUST WANT TO, UH, GIVE

2:36:55A CHANCE FOR THE PANEL TO BE

2:36:57RELIEVED.

2:36:58I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR, UM FOR

2:36:59YOUR LEADERSHIP AND FOR BEING

2:37:01HERE TODAY.

2:37:04OKAY.

2:37:05SO THE ORDER RIGHT NOW IS TONY

2:37:06VIA ZACHARY YARROW, SUE DOWNING

2:37:09AND GARY GREENBERG AND MATTHIAS

2:37:15REMILLARD IS THE OKAY TONY, YOU

2:37:18HAVE TWO MINUTES.

2:37:19HELLO.

2:37:19HELLO.

2:37:20>> MY NAME IS TONY BYAS.

2:37:21UM, FIRST.

2:37:22I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THE

2:37:24LAUGHABLE LACK OF ACTIONABLE

2:37:25DETAILS IN THE ADMINS

2:37:27PRESENTATION AND ANSWER TO THE

2:37:29QUESTIONS.

2:37:30THE YEAR IS 2022.

2:37:32FOUR YEARS AGO WAS THE LAST

2:37:34TIME THE CITY EVER PRESENTED A

2:37:35COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO ADD MILES

2:37:37OF BIKE LANES TO THE NETWORK.

2:37:40SEPTEMBER 2022 IT WAS ANNOUNCED

2:37:42THAT THE CITY WOULD ADD 9.4

2:37:44MILES OF PROTECTED BIKE LANES.

2:37:46SPOILER ALERT THAT PROMISE WAS

2:37:48NOT CAPPED I WAS THERE I WAS

2:37:51YELLED AT BY RESIDENTS ON

2:37:52BARCLAY STREET, BOYLSTON STREET

2:37:54,CHARLES STREET ALONGSIDE

2:37:56COLLEAGUES BUT WE DID IT

2:37:57BECAUSE WE ASSUMED THIS WAS THE

2:37:59FIRST STEP IN CREATING A

2:38:00COHESIVE NETWORK.

2:38:02WE NOW KNOW THAT THE WOOTTEN

2:38:03HAS HALTED ALL PROGRESS.

2:38:05THIS PAUSE HAS CONSEQUENCES

2:38:08PEOPLE HAVE DIED INCLUDING ONE

2:38:09WHOSE LIFE THIS VERY

2:38:11COUNCIL HONORED YESTERDAY.

2:38:13YOUR ACTIONS OR LACK THEREOF

2:38:15PUT PEOPLE'S LIVES AT RISK.

2:38:17I NOW HAVE TO DO THINGS THAT I

2:38:19HAD THEM BEFORE.

2:38:20I NOW HAVE A DASH CAM ON MY

2:38:21HELMET SO THAT WHEN I AM

2:38:23INEVITABLY KILLED ON BOSTON

2:38:24STREETS WE WILL AT LEAST KNOW

2:38:26WHO DID IT.

2:38:27I NOW SHARE MY LOCATION WITH MY

2:38:28WIFE IN CASE THAT BIKE TRIP

2:38:30STARTS TO TAKE A LITTLE TOO

2:38:32LONG.

2:38:33I KNOW THE NAMES OF LAWYERS WHO

2:38:34WILL HELP ME ARGUE MY CASE WHEN

2:38:36I EVENTUALLY SUE THE CITY.

2:38:38LUCKILY I'M STUPID ENOUGH TO

2:38:39CONTINUE TO RIDE ON THESE

2:38:40STREETS BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY

2:38:41WAY I CAN GET AROUND

2:38:42EFFICIENTLY AND ON TIME.

2:38:44OTHERS ARE NOT SO BRAVE.

2:38:46I'VE HAD MULTIPLE PEOPLE TELL

2:38:47ME THAT THEY NO LONGER FEEL

2:38:48SAFE ENOUGH TO RIDE THEIR

2:38:50BIKES.

2:38:50WE NEED PLANS NOT ENDLESS

2:38:53HEARINGS THAT GO NOWHERE.

2:38:54WE NEED ACTION.

2:38:56THANK YOU TONY.

2:38:59UM ZACHARY YARROW AND I'LL JUST

2:39:01SAY THAT TONY IS ONE OF THE

2:39:03BEST BIKERS.

2:39:03HE IS A REALLY GOOD PERSON TO

2:39:06BIKE WITH IN THE CITY.

2:39:07SO.

2:39:08ZACHARY.

2:39:09HEY.

2:39:10>> UH.

2:39:10YEAH, TONY IS GREAT.

2:39:12SO I BIKE FOR TRANSPORTATION

2:39:14ALL.

2:39:14>> OVER THE GREATER BOSTON AREA

2:39:15AND I FELT THE CHANGES IN

2:39:17CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE OVER

2:39:19THE PAST FEW YEARS.

2:39:20IT'S NOT JUST BUILDING

2:39:21CYCLEWAYS.

2:39:22THEY'RE PRIORITIZING

2:39:23CONNECTIVITY.

2:39:24THEY'VE GIVEN ME NEW SAFER

2:39:26ROUTES TO WORK HOME TO

2:39:28APPOINTMENTS, GROCERIES,

2:39:30VISITING FRIENDS AND SO MUCH

2:39:32MORE.

2:39:33BOSTON WAS THAT WAY A FEW YEARS

2:39:35AGO THERE WERE AMBITIOUS

2:39:36PROJECTS MASS AVE BIKE LANES

2:39:38COME TO MIND WHICH GAVE ME A

2:39:40PROTECTED CONNECTION TO

2:39:41DORCHESTER THAT I HAD NEVER

2:39:42BRAVE BEFORE.

2:39:43UH, BUT SINCE FEBRUARY OF LAST

2:39:45YEAR BOSTON HAS BEEN

2:39:46SQUANDERING ITS CONSTRUCTION

2:39:47TIME.

2:39:48WE GOT A FEW BLOCKS ON CONGRESS

2:39:50STREET WITHOUT THEM GOING FAR

2:39:51ENOUGH TO CONNECT TO THE

2:39:52NETWORK.

2:39:52TIME SPENT MOVING THE EXISTING

2:39:54CYCLEWAY ON STATE STREET TO THE

2:39:56OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE STREET TO

2:39:58CONVENIENCE DRIVERS WHILE

2:39:59MAKING BIKE LANE USERS ZIGZAG

2:40:01ACROSS TRAFFIC A DISCONNECTED

2:40:03BLOCK OF CYCLEWAY IN SOUTHIE

2:40:04THAT GOT RIPPED OUT AS SOON AS

2:40:06IT WAS BUILT.

2:40:07AND MEANWHILE WE LET FUNDING

2:40:09SLIP AWAY FOR A DEADLY FENWAY

2:40:11INTERSECTION FOR BUILDING

2:40:12ROXBURY RESILIENT CORRIDORS

2:40:14WASTING JPN ROSLYN TAIL

2:40:16RESIDENTS TIME WITH HYDE PARK

2:40:17AT MEETINGS THAT KEPT STRIPPING

2:40:18AWAY BUS, BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN

2:40:21IMPROVEMENTS WHILE DRIVERS

2:40:23CONTINUE TO GO 30 OVER THE

2:40:24SPEED LIMIT AND CRASH INTO

2:40:26PEOPLE'S YARDS ONE OF WHOM I

2:40:27KNOW ABORTING THE DARTMOUTH

2:40:29STREET BIKE LANE HALF DONE

2:40:31ACTIVELY DEFUNDING CHARLES

2:40:32STREET.

2:40:33I PERSONALLY HAD A DRIVER HIT

2:40:34ME EARLIER THIS YEAR ON

2:40:35CAMBRIDGE STREET AND THEN THE

2:40:37PONTIAC GREENWAY IS AN ABSOLUTE

2:40:38GEM, BUT THE NEWEST BLUE HILL

2:40:40DESIGN REMOVES CONNECTIVITY TO

2:40:42THE GREENWAY.

2:40:43WE CAN'T CONTINUE THIS SYSTEM.

2:40:45WE'RE BACK.

2:40:46BAY MILLIONAIRES CAN SWAY THE

2:40:48MAYOR'S HEART, AND IT TAKES A

2:40:50DEATH OF A STAFF MEMBER TO

2:40:52BRING TO BRING THE WORK BACK.

2:40:54WE KNOW WHAT HAS WORKED IN

2:40:56CAMBRIDGE AND SOMERVILLE, SO I

2:40:58IMPLORE YOU ENACT A SIMILAR

2:40:59SAFE STREETS ORDINANCE IN

2:41:01BOSTON.

2:41:01REQUIRE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE

2:41:03CONNECTED PROTECTED GO BOSTON

2:41:052030 NETWORK OR WHATEVER

2:41:07SUCCEEDS THAT AND SET TIMELINES

2:41:09FOR PRIORITY CORRIDORS AND

2:41:11MINIMUM NEW LANES EVERY YEAR SO

2:41:14EVERYONE CAN ARRIVE ALIVE.

2:41:15THANK YOU.

2:41:16>> THANK YOU ZACHARY.

2:41:17AND, UM, WE SHOULD CHAT LATER,

2:41:18BUT, UM.

2:41:19SUE.

2:41:20GO AHEAD.

2:41:20HI.

2:41:21I'M SO, UM I'VE BEEN BIKING MY

2:41:24ENTIRE LIFE.

2:41:24I'M A LIFELONG NON DRIVER.

2:41:26AND, UH, BECAUSE I LEARNED IN

2:41:28THE 1960S IN BROOKLYN, NEW

2:41:31YORK.

2:41:31UH, I'M OKAY ON STRESS LEVEL

2:41:33FOR ROADWAYS AND UH, WHICH IS

2:41:37UNUSUAL BUT, UM, I DEPEND ON MY

2:41:39BIKE FOR ACCESSIBILITY AND

2:41:41ACCESS TO EVERYTHING FROM

2:41:43DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS TO FUN

2:41:45AND GAMES AND TO TO I'M RETIRED

2:41:48NOW A SENIOR CITIZEN IS MY

2:41:51ACCESSIBILITY FOR EVERYTHING

2:41:52AND SO WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO

2:41:54BIKE SOMEWHERE I WOULDN'T BE

2:41:55ABLE TO GET THERE.

2:41:57UM AND SO I WANT TO SECOND A

2:41:59LOT OF THE BEAUTIFUL WORK

2:42:00THAT'S BEEN DONE HERE.

2:42:01I THINK I'M GLAD THAT PEOPLE

2:42:03ARE LOOKING AT DATA AND DOING

2:42:05DATA DRIVEN DECISION MAKING AND

2:42:07I WANT TO ALSO SECOND, I WAS

2:42:08HERE YESTERDAY FOR UM THE

2:42:10TESTIMONY FROM LOUISA GAGA'S

2:42:12FAMILY AND I WOULD TOTALLY

2:42:15ENDORSE AND EVERYTHING THAT SHE

2:42:16HAD THEY HAD SHARED WITH US AND

2:42:18UM WHERE THERE'S A WILL THERE'S

2:42:21A WAY IT CAN HAPPEN.

2:42:23YOU CAN ACHIEVE ZERO DEATHS AND

2:42:25SOMERVILLE HAS SHOWN US THAT

2:42:27AND UM, THANK.

2:42:29>> YOU.

2:42:29VERY MUCH FOR HAVING THIS

2:42:30HEARING.

2:42:30THANK YOU.

2:42:31SO I NEED TO GO ON A BIKE RIDE

2:42:33WITH YOU AND.

2:42:35MILES LAST.

2:42:36>> MONTH AND THEN WE'RE GOING

2:42:37TO MATTHIAS.

2:42:38UM, AND THEN NEXT, UM, JEFFREY

2:42:40FERRIS, MAHA AND CALVIN JUST TO

2:42:44GET READY.

2:42:45OKAY.

2:42:45GO AHEAD.

2:42:46HI.

2:42:47>> MY NAME IS AND GRIFFIN BERG.

2:42:48I LIVE IN ROXBURY.

2:42:50I'M A SAFE STREETS ADVOCATE

2:42:52BECAUSE I BELIEVE BOSTON CITY

2:42:53STREETS SHOULD BE SAFE FOR ALL

2:42:54USERS AND I KIND OF FEEL RIGHT

2:42:57NOW LIKE I'M PREACHING TO THE

2:42:58CONVERTED.

2:43:00UM.

2:43:01BUT THE CORE OF THE ISSUE IS

2:43:03BIKES ARE TRANSPORTATION.

2:43:06IT'S THEY ARE RESILIENT,

2:43:08EFFICIENT, GREEN COMMUNITY

2:43:11FRIENDLY.

2:43:11THEY HAVE BUILT IN HEALTH

2:43:13BENEFITS AND THEY'RE ACCESSIBLE

2:43:14.

2:43:15I RIDE A THREE WHEEL ELECTRIC

2:43:17BIKE BECAUSE I LIVE ON A HILL

2:43:19AND BOSTON HILLS ARE NO JOKE.

2:43:22BIKING AND OTHER WHEELED

2:43:24CONVEYANCES THEY EXTEND

2:43:25TRANSPORTATION TO PEOPLE WHO

2:43:26ARE EITHER UNABLE TO DRIVE OR

2:43:28CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE CARS.

2:43:30THE TRAFFIC FATALITIES WE MOURN

2:43:32ARE PREVENTABLE, BUT THEY ALSO

2:43:37ARE THE RESULT OF OUR

2:43:38PRIORITIES AND OUR CHOICES.

2:43:41WE DESERVE TO ARRIVE ALIVE BUT

2:43:43WE ALSO DESERVE TO TRAVEL WITH

2:43:46DIGNITY AND NOT UNDER THREAT.

2:43:49BOSTON MUST MOVE FORWARD AND WE

2:43:52MUST MOVE WITH URGENCY.

2:43:54THE CITY NEEDS TO LEAD.

2:43:57WE NEED CLEAR PRIORITIES,

2:43:59CLEARLY STATED PRIORITIES THAT

2:44:01HUMAN LIFE IS THE PRIORITY AND

2:44:04WE NEED BETTER COMMUNICATION.

2:44:06WHAT ARE WE DOING?

2:44:07WHY ARE WE DOING IT?

2:44:09WHEN ARE WE DOING IT?

2:44:10WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS?

2:44:12THE PRIORITY MUST BE THE

2:44:13NETWORK SAFE TRAVEL FOR AGES 8

2:44:16TO 80 COMPLETE STREETS LIKE

2:44:18CUMMINS HIGHWAY IT GIVES SPACE

2:44:20FOR COMMERCE ALL FOR OR TRAFFIC

2:44:23A ROAD DESIGN THAT MEANS IF A

2:44:25DRIVER MAKES AN INEVITABLE

2:44:26MISTAKE, WE'VE INCREASED THE

2:44:28CHANCES OF SURVIVAL TODAY I WAS

2:44:32GOING TO SAY WE NEED TO THINK

2:44:33BIGGER.

2:44:33WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT A SAFE

2:44:36STREETS UH, ORDINANCE THAT TIES

2:44:39OUR CONSTRUCTION WITH OUR

2:44:41SAFETY GOALS BECAUSE TODAY IN

2:44:43BOSTON EVERY TIME I LEAVE MY

2:44:45HOUSE I THINK ONCE I THINK

2:44:47TWICE.

2:44:48AM I UP FOR THE FEAR FOR THE

2:44:50CLOSE CALLS, THE ANGER FROM

2:44:53DRIVERS?

2:44:54WILL I DIE TODAY?

2:44:55WE CAN DO BETTER AND WE MUST DO

2:44:57BETTER.

2:44:58WE DESERVE FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT

2:45:00AND WE DESERVE SAFETY.

2:45:01THANK YOU.

2:45:02>> AND, UH.

2:45:03MATTHIAS.

2:45:04IT HAS TO BE.

2:45:06>> OKAY, JEFFREY FERRIS.

2:45:09AND THEN MAHA ASLAM AND THEN

2:45:13CALVIN WEINSTOCK AND I'M ON.

2:45:23AND THEN FABIO.

2:45:25HELLO.

2:45:26>> HERE IS UM I'LL SAY EXCUSE

2:45:29ME AHEAD OF TIME I SOMETIMES

2:45:32GET EMOTIONAL.

2:45:36I HAVE A PREPARED STATEMENT

2:45:37WHICH I CAN HAND SOME OUT TO

2:45:39YOU.

2:45:41A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO GINGER

2:45:42CALLED ME DOWN TO THE JAYPEE

2:45:44CENTER SOUTH STREET MAIN STREET

2:45:45OFFICE TO TRIM SOME TREE

2:45:46BRANCHES OUT HERE.

2:45:47THIRD FLOOR WINDOW WHEN I GOT

2:45:49THERE I TOLD GINGER SHE NEEDED

2:45:51TO GO DOWN TO THE SIDEWALK TO

2:45:52BE MY SPOTTER FOR ANYBODY WALK

2:45:53NEAR THERE PRETTY SMALL

2:45:56BRANCHES I WAS TRIMMING BUT I

2:45:58DIDN'T WANT THEM DROPPING ON

2:45:59ANYONE.

2:45:59I'M NOT A PROFESSIONAL PRUNER

2:46:01AND I DON'T HAVE PARTICULAR

2:46:02SAFETY TRAINING HERE, BUT IT

2:46:04JUST MADE SENSE TO HAVE

2:46:05GINGER'S EYES ON THE STREET FOR

2:46:07PUBLIC SAFETY ON THE STREET THE

2:46:11SAME COMMON SENSE NEEDS TO BE

2:46:13FOLLOWED BY DRIVERS

2:46:14OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES NEEDING

2:46:15THEIR EYES ON THE STREET FOR

2:46:16THE SAFETY OF ALL ESPECIALLY

2:46:19VULNERABLE CYCLISTS.

2:46:21THIS DISCUSSION OF COMMERCIAL

2:46:23VEHICLES IS MOSTLY FOCUSED ON

2:46:25TRUCKS TURNING, BUT I WANT TO

2:46:27TURN THIS DISCUSSION TO INCLUDE

2:46:29CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES ON CITY

2:46:30STREETS.

2:46:32I HATE TURNING WEEZER'S NAME

2:46:35INTO A VERB, BUT I WAS INCHES

2:46:38AWAY.

2:46:39FROM BEING EGGED MYSELF BY ONE

2:46:44SUCH CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE LAST

2:46:45WEEK.

2:46:47A MOHAMMED STREET IN BROOKLINE

2:46:48WAS RIDING WITH A COUPLE

2:46:50CYCLING BUDDIES AND IT WAS A

2:46:52CONSTRUCTION PROJECT WHICH

2:46:53FUNNELED ALL TRAFFIC INTO THE

2:46:54SAME LANE AND THERE WAS A

2:46:55CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE EXCAVATOR

2:46:58WHICH I PULLED IN BEHIND FOR

2:46:59WHAT EXPECT TO BE A SHORT

2:47:01DISTANCE.

2:47:02HE SUDDENLY SLOWED, TURNED AND

2:47:05SUDDENLY I'M RIGHT ON TOP

2:47:06OF HIM TURNING WITH HIM

2:47:08SCREAMING BECAUSE HE DIDN'T

2:47:10HAVE A FUNCTIONING MIRROR AND

2:47:12OR HIS CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT

2:47:15IN FRONT BLOCKED HIS VISIBILITY

2:47:17OF THE MIRROR OR SOMEBODY IN

2:47:19FRONT.

2:47:21UM.

2:47:27THE GOOD PART OF THE INCIDENT

2:47:28WAS THAT NONE OF US WERE

2:47:29INJURED AND THE DRIVER DID STOP

2:47:31AND TALK TO ME.

2:47:32WHAT'S MORE, BROOKLINE HAS A

2:47:35CERTIFIED SAFETY PROFESSIONAL.

2:47:37HIS NAME IS KEVIN GRAY, WHO I

2:47:39SPOKE WITH A FEW DAYS LATER.

2:47:41THE DRIVER HAD ACTUALLY ALREADY

2:47:43TALKED ABOUT THE INCIDENT.

2:47:47HIS EXACT TITLE, HIS

2:47:49ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

2:47:50OFFICER.

2:47:52UM, WE AGREED THAT IF A

2:47:55CONSTRUCTION VEHICLE WITH AN

2:47:56OBSTRUCTED VIEW IS ON A PUBLIC

2:47:57STREET, THERE SHOULD BE A FLAG

2:47:58IN FRONT AND BEHIND WITH

2:48:00IMMEDIATE RADIO CONTACT WITH

2:48:01THE DRIVER.

2:48:03UM THIS COULD BE A WALKING FLAG

2:48:04OR ANOTHER VEHICLE.

2:48:0826 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK.

2:48:16WE LEFT RUTH MECKLER, A GERMAN

2:48:20AMERICAN MATHEMATICIAN 33 YEARS

2:48:21OLD, A VISITING PROFESSOR AT

2:48:23NORTHEASTERN, TALENTED

2:48:25MARATHONER, ULTRAMARATHON

2:48:27RUNNER.

2:48:36I'M HEADING TO AN AVENUE CORNER

2:48:38OF FOURTH STREET SITTING ON A

2:48:41BIKE WAITING FOR A TRAFFIC

2:48:43SIGNAL AND ONE OF THESE

2:48:45VEHICLES.

2:48:46ROLLED RIGHT OVER TO.

2:48:51UH.

2:48:52>> I'M SO.

2:48:54>> SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS.

2:48:55UH UH.

2:48:58UM, IRONICALLY, I'VE BEEN

2:49:00TRYING TO RESEARCH ON THIS

2:49:01STUFF AND HAVING TROUBLE

2:49:02FINDING INFORMATION ON ANY

2:49:04REGULATION REGARDING THIS

2:49:06SITUATION.

2:49:07UM, I JUST ACTUALLY GOT A

2:49:08LITTLE BIT FROM CHRIS WAS GOOD.

2:49:11UM.

2:49:14I DON'T THINK BOSTON HAS A

2:49:16CERTIFIED SAFETY PROFESSIONAL

2:49:17ON ITS STAFF.

2:49:18THESE ARE PROFESSIONALS

2:49:20CERTIFIED JUST LIKE ENGINEERS,

2:49:21ARCHITECTS AND MANY OTHER

2:49:23PROFESSIONS IN BOSTON AND OTHER

2:49:26SUBJECT BOSTON STREET NETWORK

2:49:28THERE ARE SEVERAL CRITICAL

2:49:29PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN ON THE

2:49:31RADAR UH, MORE THAN 30 YEARS.

2:49:36UM, SO BOSTON DOES HAVE THREE

2:49:40FAMILIES BIKE ROUTES RIGHT NOW

2:49:41THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR, THE

2:49:43EMERALD NECKLACE AND THE

2:49:44CHARLES RIVER PATHS AT THE

2:49:46FENWAY AREA HERE ARE JUST A FEW

2:49:49BLOCKS FROM EACH OTHER, BUT

2:49:50THERE'S NO SIMPLE CONNECTION

2:49:52BETWEEN THEM.

2:49:53PETER FIRTH HAS DONE SOME

2:49:55REPORTS ON THIS.

2:49:56IF THESE WERE CONNECTED, THE

2:49:58NETWORK CONNECTIONS WOULD

2:50:00MULTIPLY EXPONENTIALLY.

2:50:01THANK YOU.

2:50:02IN THIS CITY.

2:50:03I, UM, WANTED TO LET YOU GO

2:50:05OVER BECAUSE I KNOW HOW

2:50:06IMPORTANT THIS IS.

2:50:07UM, I HAVE ALMOST BEEN HIT.

2:50:08UM, UH.

2:50:10THE.

2:50:11>> UH YOU KNOW WHERE THE FENWAY

2:50:13MULTI-USE PATH WOULD AND IT IT

2:50:16REALLY IT'S A SCARY SCARY UM

2:50:18AND WE REALLY DO NEED TO WORK

2:50:20ON THAT, SO, UM BUT I JUST WANT

2:50:22TO BE FAIR TO EVERYONE ELSE

2:50:22WHO'S WAITING ON LINE.

2:50:24OH.

2:50:26>> OKAY.

2:50:26UM.

2:50:29BUT JUST WANT TO MENTION THE

2:50:30SOUTH BAY HARBOR TRAIL WHICH

2:50:33MENINO ANNOUNCED 30 YEARS AGO.

2:50:34WE'RE GOING TO RIDE FROM

2:50:35RUGGLES TO THE WATERFRONT AND

2:50:36THE LAST YEAR THAT UM.

2:50:41UH AND UH ONE LAST COMMENT UH,

2:50:45BLUE HILL AVENUE DON'T LIKE

2:50:46CENTER BUS LANES AND YOU GOT TO

2:50:48MAKE IT WORK FOR BIKES.

2:50:50THIS IS LIKE A 50 YEAR PROJECT.

2:50:51YOU GOT TO DO IT RIGHT NOW FOR

2:50:53CYCLISTS AND EVERYBODY.

2:50:54THANK YOU.

2:50:55THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU

2:50:56FOR SHARING.

2:50:57UM AND WELL I'M YOUR NEXT.

2:51:06UH HI.

2:51:07>> MY NAME IS MAHA.

2:51:08UH, I'M HERE.

2:51:08WITH THE WALL STREET ALLIANCE.

2:51:10UM, I.

2:51:11>> THINK A LOT HAS BEEN SAID SO

2:51:12I'M GOING TO CHANGE SOME OF MY

2:51:13TESTIMONY AND FOCUS ON THINGS

2:51:15THAT ARE I THINK IMPORTANT FOR

2:51:17THIS MOMENT.

2:51:17UM, I THINK LIKE THERE WAS A

2:51:20LOT OF TALK ABOUT STRESS.

2:51:21AND STRESSFUL STREETS AND WE

2:51:24JUST.

2:51:24,UH, HEARD LIKE, UM.

2:51:26SOMEBODY SHARE SOMETHING.

2:51:27PERSONAL AND CONSIDER AND YOU

2:51:29JUST SHARED YOU HAD SIMILAR

2:51:30EXPERIENCES I THINK SOMETHING

2:51:32THAT YOU I THINK WE ALL NEED TO

2:51:35TALK ABOUT IS LIKE.

2:51:36THERE ARE STRESSFUL.

2:51:37STREETS AND THERE ARE VERY,

2:51:39VERY GOOD INFRASTRUCTURE

2:51:41SOLUTIONS TO DE-STRESS THEM.

2:51:42AND THE CITY OF BOSTON IS

2:51:44TRYING TO IMPLEMENT A LOT

2:51:45OF THOSE AND I THINK SOME

2:51:46POLITICAL ENERGY TOWARDS YOU

2:51:49KNOW, GETTING THOSE HAPPEN IS

2:51:51GOING TO BE GREAT.

2:51:52UM, I WAS RECENTLY IN NEW YORK

2:51:54FOR A VISION ZERO CONFERENCE.

2:51:56UM, I WAS ABLE TO BIKE AROUND

2:51:58IN WHAT THEY ARE CALLING BIKE

2:52:00BOULEVARDS.

2:52:00IT'S LIKE A PILOT PROJECT CARS

2:52:02CAN COME BUT IT IS A VERY VERY

2:52:05LOW STRESS NEIGHBORHOOD STREET

2:52:07.

2:52:07UM.

2:52:09SO WHILE WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS

2:52:10LIKE TRADITIONAL BIKE NETWORK,

2:52:12I WOULD ALSO IMPLORE THE CITY

2:52:14OF AUSTIN TO LOOK INTO WAYS IN

2:52:16WHICH IT'S NOT JUST A

2:52:17TRADITIONAL BIKE NETWORK BUT

2:52:18WE'RE.

2:52:18ACTUALLY SLOWING.

2:52:19DOWN CARS DE-STRESSING

2:52:21NEIGHBORHOOD SO OUR KIDS CAN

2:52:22PLAY ON THE STREET.

2:52:23THE STREETS ARE FOR EVERYONE.

2:52:24THE SOLUTION FOR STRESSED

2:52:26STREETS IS NOT TO LIKE TAKE OUT

2:52:27PEOPLE.

2:52:28UM, IT'S A PUBLIC SPACE.

2:52:29IT'S FOR EVERYONE AND I WANT TO

2:52:32MENTION LAKE SOMERVILLE.

2:52:33BRAD CROSSAN IS HERE.

2:52:35UM, THERE IS SOME AMAZING

2:52:36NEIGHBOR WITH WORK.

2:52:37THAT'S HAPPENING.

2:52:38>> IN SOMERVILLE.

2:52:39I THINK WE SHOULD ALSO DO

2:52:40SOMETHING SIMILAR.

2:52:41THE OTHER THING IS WE KNOW

2:52:43WE'RE IN A BUDGET CONSTRAINED

2:52:44YEAR.

2:52:44SO I THINK SOMETHING THAT CAME

2:52:45UP BEFORE WOULD BE WHAT WOULD

2:52:47BE REALLY GOOD IS LIKE UM

2:52:50REPAVING SOME OF THESE LIKE OUR

2:52:51BRAND PLAY CONTRACTS WE HAVE

2:52:53HOW CAN WE MERGE SOME OF THE

2:52:54STUFF I KNOW UM, BRAD MENTIONED

2:52:56HOW THEY'RE DOING IT IN

2:52:57SOMERVILLE.

2:52:58I THINK IT'D BE GREAT IF WE CAN

2:52:59BRING SOME OF THOSE THINGS UP.

2:53:01AND LASTLY, I THINK SOMETHING

2:53:02THAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR AND I

2:53:04THINK.

2:53:05WHILE WE.

2:53:06THINK ABOUT THE BIGGER NETWORK

2:53:08WE THINK ABOUT MAINTENANCE.

2:53:10UM, AND.

2:53:11>> HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT

2:53:12WHAT WE HAVE.

2:53:12>> RIGHT.

2:53:13NOW UH STOCK OF LIKE UH

2:53:15FLEXIBLES MAINTAINING THE YOU

2:53:17KNOW, BIKE LANES WE HAVE THAT

2:53:19SHOULD BE A PART OF THE

2:53:20PROCESS.

2:53:20THANK YOU.

2:53:20>> THANK YOU.

2:53:21>> UM THANK YOU.

2:53:22MAHA.

2:53:22UM, CALVIN WEINSTOCK AND THEN

2:53:26AMAN SHAWCROSS AND THEN FABIO

2:53:30SALVO AND FIONA.

2:53:32UH, HELLO.

2:53:33MY NAME IS CALVIN WEINSTOCK.

2:53:34I'M A FENWAY RESIDENT

2:53:36SPECIFICALLY NEXT ALL THAT

2:53:37CONSTRUCTION AT ALCOA OVERPASS

2:53:38.

2:53:39UM, I'VE BEEN LIVING IN THE

2:53:41CITY FOR ABOUT A YEAR SO I

2:53:42BELIEVE I CAN OFFER LIKE A NEW

2:53:44PERSPECTIVE.

2:53:45I WAS ABLE TO SELL MY CAR WHEN

2:53:46I MOVED HERE.

2:53:47UH, JUST RELYING ON BLUE BIKES

2:53:49.

2:53:49I'M A DAILY BLUE LIKE, UH,

2:53:51DRIVER.

2:53:51SO I COMMEND THE CITY AND YOU

2:53:53COUNCILORS FOR HOLDING THIS

2:53:56MEETING.

2:53:56IT'S A BIT DISAPPOINTING THAT

2:53:57ONLY FOUR OF YOU ARE HERE.

2:53:59UM, IF I'M GOING TO BE HONEST,

2:54:01UH, BECAUSE SAFER BIKE

2:54:03INFRASTRUCTURE IT LEADS TO

2:54:04SAFER WALKING AND DRIVING IF WE

2:54:06CAN SLOW DOWN THESE CARS.

2:54:08UM, SO I'M GOING TO HIGHLIGHT

2:54:10SOME CONCERNS I SEE CITYWIDE.

2:54:12UH, ONE IS PARKING IN THE BIKE

2:54:14LANE NO MATTER WHAT

2:54:15NEIGHBORHOOD I'M IN, PEOPLE ARE

2:54:17PARKING THE BIKE LANE AND

2:54:18SPECIFICALLY WHEN THERE'S NOT

2:54:19FLEX POST AND THERE'S NO BUFFER

2:54:20THEY'RE ALSO TAKING UP THE

2:54:21TRAVELING.

2:54:22SO WHAT'S THE POINT THERE?

2:54:24UM THEY'RE SLOWING DOWN CARS.

2:54:26SO IF THEY'RE ALREADY SLOWING

2:54:27DOWN THE CARS IN THE TRAVEL

2:54:28LANE UH, WE SHOULD PROTECT THAT

2:54:31BIKING.

2:54:32UH, ANOTHER ONE IS RIGHT HAND

2:54:35TURNS.

2:54:36I BIKE DOWN MASS AVE TOWARDS,

2:54:38UH, THE BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER A

2:54:39LOT AND THAT'S MY NUMBER ONE

2:54:42ISSUE IS PEOPLE JUST TAKING

2:54:43RIGHT HAND TURNS EITHER ON A

2:54:45RIDE AND THEY EITHER DON'T SEE

2:54:47ME OR THEY PASS ME AND THEY'RE

2:54:48LIKE WE CAN GET AROUND HIM.

2:54:50UM, THAT'S A BIG CONCERN THAT I

2:54:52HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL.

2:54:53I'VE RECENTLY INVESTED IN A HI

2:54:55VIS VEST, UM, WHICH I DON'T

2:54:57THINK I NEED TO BUY.

2:54:59UM, AND FENWAY SPECIFIC AND I

2:55:02THINK RELATING TO THE OVERALL

2:55:04BIKE NETWORK IS THERE'S ABOUT A

2:55:06HALF MILE GAP IN BOYLSTON UH,

2:55:08BIKE LANES IF YOU LIKE LOOK AT

2:55:10A MAP YOU CAN GO ALL THE WAY TO

2:55:12DOWNTOWN AND THEN SKIPPING OVER

2:55:14THE GAP YOU CAN GO ALL THE WAY

2:55:15UP BROOKLINE AVE UM AND THAT'S

2:55:17AROUND IPSWICH STREET.

2:55:18UH, IPSWICH STREET IS CITY

2:55:21CONTROLLED BOSTON BETWEEN THERE

2:55:23IS MASSDOT AND DCR CONTROLLED

2:55:25SO I THINK IT'S THE ONLY WAY

2:55:27FOR POSITIVE UH BIKE

2:55:29INFRASTRUCTURE CURRENTLY IT'S A

2:55:30SHARROW IT'S ANOTHER AREA I GET

2:55:31HIT ALMOST A LOT.

2:55:34UM SO I THINK THE CITY SHOULD

2:55:36LOOK INTO THAT AS A CRUCIAL

2:55:38CONNECTION.

2:55:38ALSO A CONNECTION TO MASS, UH,

2:55:41BIKE LANES.

2:55:42THANK YOU CALVIN WE ARE

2:55:43ACTUALLY WORKING ON THAT RIGHT

2:55:44NOW.

2:55:46SO SO UM SO MUSIC TO OUR EARS

2:55:48THAT THAT WOULD HELP YOU?

2:55:49UM, WE ARE WORKING ON IT.

2:55:51UM I'M ON AND THEN FABIO AND

2:55:55THEN WE HAVE GOT SOME PEOPLE ON

2:55:56LINE AS WELL.

2:55:59GO AHEAD.

2:56:00HI.

2:56:00>> UH, MY NAME IS I'M ON

2:56:02JINGLES.

2:56:02I'M HERE REPRESENTING BOSTON

2:56:03CAFE BIKERS AND ORGANIZATION

2:56:04THAT IN ONE YEAR HAS HOSTED

2:56:06OVER 100 GROUP RIDES IN THE

2:56:07BOSTON AREA TO LOCAL CAFES AND

2:56:09BUSINESSES.

2:56:10UM, WE'VE BEEN ACTIVELY

2:56:11INCREASING CONFIDENCE IN

2:56:12CYCLING AROUND BOSTON AND HAVE

2:56:14ENGAGED WITH THOUSANDS

2:56:14OF PEOPLE IN THE BOSTON AREA TO

2:56:16SHOWCASE WHAT BIKING AROUND THE

2:56:17CITY FUNCTIONALLY LOOKS LIKE.

2:56:18THIS WHOLE CONVERSATION WE'VE

2:56:20BEEN HAVING HERE FEELS LIKE

2:56:21BOSTON HAS NEVER HAD A

2:56:22DISCUSSION ABOUT BIKE PATHS OR

2:56:23NETWORKS EVER, WHICH IS REALLY

2:56:24SCARY JUST TO FEEL AND TO

2:56:26REITERATE PREVIOUS COMMENTS

2:56:27WHEN PEOPLE TREAT BIKE

2:56:29INFRASTRUCTURE AS JUST FOR

2:56:30GREAT WEATHER OR WEEKEND RIDES

2:56:31THEY'RE MISSING WHAT IS WHAT IT

2:56:33ACTUALLY IS WHICH HAS BEEN SAID

2:56:34BEFORE IT'S ESSENTIAL CITY

2:56:36LEVEL TRANSPORTATION JUST LIKE

2:56:37A BUS NETWORK, JUST LIKE A

2:56:38TRAIN NETWORK, JUST LIKE

2:56:39WALKING PATHS AND IT'S AN

2:56:40ECONOMIC LIFELINE FOR PEOPLE

2:56:42STRUGGLING IN THE CITY.

2:56:43IF WE LOOK AT OUR WORKFORCE

2:56:45ESPECIALLY OUR SHIFT WORKERS,

2:56:46HOSPITAL STAFF AND SERVICE

2:56:47INDUSTRY WORKERS, WHEN SOMEONE

2:56:49FINISHES A SHIFT AT 1 A.M. OR

2:56:51AFTER MIDNIGHT IN LONGWOOD OR

2:56:52DOWNTOWN MEDICAL CENTER, UH THE

2:56:54T IS SHUT DOWN.

2:56:55AND SO WITHOUT SAFE PROTECTED

2:56:56BIKE CORRIDORS THAT WORKER HAS

2:56:58TO USE THEIR SHIFT EARNINGS ON

2:56:59AN UBER RIDESHARE WALK MILES OR

2:57:01RISKED THEIR LIFE ON A ON A

2:57:03BIKE AT HIGH SPEED ROADS A

2:57:04CONNECTED BIKE NETWORK IS THE

2:57:05ONLY RELIABLE ON DEMAND ZERO

2:57:07COST TRANSIT SYSTEM THAT

2:57:09ESSENTIAL WORKERS CAN COUNT ON

2:57:11AND RELEVANT TO MY WORK WITH

2:57:12BOSTON CAFE BIKERS, OUR LACK

2:57:14OF CONNECTIVITY HURTS QUALITY

2:57:15OF LIFE AND DEGRADES BOSTON'S

2:57:16LOCAL CULTURE AND ECONOMIC

2:57:18ACTIVITY.

2:57:19BOSTON HAS A REPUTATION FROM

2:57:20OTHER CITIES AND THE US FROM

2:57:22HAVING THE WORST DRIVERS AND

2:57:23THE HORRIBLE TRAFFIC.

2:57:24BUT SINCE WHEN I MOVED HERE I

2:57:26COULDN'T AFFORD A CAR BECAUSE

2:57:27OF GAS PRICES, INSURANCE AND

2:57:28PARKING COSTS.

2:57:30I LEARNED THIS CITY BY BIKE AND

2:57:32TO ECHO COUNCILOR DURKAN

2:57:34SENTIMENTS I FELL IN LOVE WITH

2:57:35OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, SUPPORT

2:57:36LOCAL BUSINESSES ALL THE TIME

2:57:37AND I CAN COUNT THE NUMBER

2:57:38OF TIMES ON MY HAND HOW MANY

2:57:39TIMES I'VE BEEN AN ACTUAL

2:57:41BOSTON TRAFFIC LESS THAN TEN.

2:57:43EVERYONE DESERVES TO EXPERIENCE

2:57:45BOSTON THIS WAY BUT WITHOUT A

2:57:46SAFE BIKE NETWORK WE'RE CUTTING

2:57:48RESIDENTS OFF FROM THEIR

2:57:49EXPERIENCING THEIR OWN CITY.

2:57:51AND SO I IMPLORE EVERY CITY

2:57:52COUNCILOR HERE AND THE ONES

2:57:53THAT ARE NOT HERE TODAY, PLEASE

2:57:55TAKE THE TIME TO TRULY

2:57:56EXPERIENCE YOUR OWN DISTRICTS

2:57:57ON EVERY FORM OF TRANSIT RIDE

2:57:59THE BUS, TAKE WALK ON THE

2:58:01SIDEWALKS, ASK A TRUCK OR

2:58:02DELIVERY DRIVER IF YOU CAN RIDE

2:58:03IN THE PASSENGER SEAT AND I NOW

2:58:04THAT I KNOW THAT

2:58:05COUNCILOR FITZGERALD HAS DONE

2:58:06THE PATENT PAN MASS CHALLENGE

2:58:07AND IS NERVOUS TO BIKE IN

2:58:08BOSTON, I WILL BE REACHING OUT

2:58:10TO HIM PERSONALLY, ORGANIZE A

2:58:11RIDE TO DISTRICT THREE AND

2:58:13INVITE HIM UNTIL HE COMES ON A

2:58:14BLUE BIKE.

2:58:15I SAW TWO.

2:58:17BIKER YEAH ALL OF YOU GUYS

2:58:18PLEASE COME SO I URGE YOU TO

2:58:20CREATE SUPPORT, ACCELERATE AND

2:58:21COMPLETE A TRULY CONNECTED

2:58:23NETWORK ACROSS BOSTON.

2:58:24THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

2:58:26THANK YOU.

2:58:26YEAH I REALLY THINK WE NEED TO

2:58:28HAVE SOME COUNCIL BIKE RIDE

2:58:29BECAUSE THIS WOULD BE FUN SO

2:58:31YEAH SO WE CAN WORK ON THAT.

2:58:33UM FABIO SALVINI YES.

2:58:36YEAH.

2:58:37AND WE OBVIOUSLY KIM'S GOT TO

2:58:38HELP US WITH THAT, BUT, UH,

2:58:40FABIO SALVINI.

2:58:41HEY.

2:58:42>> GOOD AFTERNOON, FABIO

2:58:43SALVINI I'M HERE WITH DOT

2:58:44BIKES.

2:58:44WE'RE AN ORGANIZATION.

2:58:45DORCHESTER FOR CYCLISTS HAS

2:58:46BEEN DORMANT FOR QUITE SOME

2:58:47TIME, BUT WE'VE BEEN DOING.

2:58:48>> A LOT OF HARD WORK TO BRING

2:58:49THAT.

2:58:49>> BACK AND MAKE IT MORE

2:58:50ACTIVE.

2:58:50UM, WITH THAT I JUST WANT TO

2:58:52SHARE BEFORE I GOT INTO BIKE

2:58:53ACTIVISM AND START DOING THE

2:58:54WORK TO BRING BACK DOT BIKE,

2:58:55THE.

2:58:55FIRST THING I.

2:58:55>> DID WAS.

2:58:56GOOGLE HEY WHAT'S BOSTON DOING

2:58:57ON COLUMBIA ROAD?

2:58:57BECAUSE THAT'S THE ROAD THAT I

2:58:59HAVE TO BIKE DOWN DAILY FOR MY

2:59:00COMMUTE INTO KENDALL SQUARE.

2:59:01UH, WITH THAT I FOUND A MAP

2:59:02FROM 2008 AND I WAS SUPER

2:59:04STOKED TO SEE THAT EVEN IN 2008

2:59:05PEOPLE WANT TO PUT A PROTECTED

2:59:07BIKE LANE ON THERE AND YET

2:59:08NOTHING'S.

2:59:08HAPPENED AND I WAS EVEN MORE

2:59:10APPALLED TO FIND OUT THAT ALL

2:59:11THE NEW MAPS NO LONGER REALLY

2:59:12HAD THAT AND NO NEW MAPS HAD

2:59:13COME OUT RECENTLY.

2:59:14UH, SO WITH THAT I.

2:59:16GOT BACK TO STARTED WORKING ON

2:59:17DOT BIKE.

2:59:18>> I DO WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME

2:59:18THINGS FOR DORCHESTER RESIDENTS

2:59:20GREENSPACE ACCESS FOR

2:59:21DORCHESTER RESIDENTS UNLESS YOU

2:59:23LIVE DIRECTLY ON THE DEPOSIT

2:59:24RIVER GREENWAY, YOU CAN NOT

2:59:25SAFELY GET THERE WITH ANYTHING

2:59:27OTHER THAN A CAR.

2:59:27I WOULD ARGUE YOU CAN'T EVEN

2:59:29SAFELY GET THERE WITH A CAR,

2:59:29BUT HOW STRESSED OUR TRAFFIC

2:59:31ROADS ARE ON TOP OF THAT

2:59:32FRANKLIN PARK UNLESS YOU LIVE

2:59:34RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE

2:59:35OF FRANKLIN PARK IN THAT ONE

2:59:36HOUSE YOU CAN'T GET THERE

2:59:38SAFELY WITHOUT A CAR.

2:59:40UM SO GREENSPACE ACCESS.

2:59:41NON-EXISTENT FOR MOST

2:59:42DORCHESTER RESIDENTS WITHOUT

2:59:43HAVING TO GO THROUGH.

2:59:44STRESS LEVEL FOUR ROUTES UH

2:59:46WITH THAT, ANY COMMUTE THROUGH

2:59:47DORCHESTER OR TO ANYWHERE ELSE

2:59:48OUT OF DORCHESTER REQUIRES

2:59:50GOING THROUGH FOUR ROADS.

2:59:51THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS ANY

2:59:52PROTECTED BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE

2:59:53IS MASSIVE MASS.

2:59:54ADD TO THAT BIKE.

2:59:55>> LANE.

2:59:56OR GET OUT OF THAT BIKE LANE

2:59:57REQUIRES CROSSING SOME OF THE

2:59:58MOST DANGEROUS INTERSECTIONS IN

2:59:58THE CITY THAT ARE NOT WELL

3:00:00TIMED OR DESIGNED TO ALLOW SAFE

3:00:02AND EFFICIENT CROSSING.

3:00:04UM WE.

3:00:05>> HEARD THE DISCUSSION EARLIER

3:00:06OF LOW HANGING FRUIT THROUGHOUT

3:00:07THE CITY SOUTH OF BMC AND GOING

3:00:09INTO DORCHESTER THERE'S NO

3:00:11PEDESTRIAN PRIORITY TRAFFIC

3:00:13LIGHTS ABSOLUTELY ALL OF THEM

3:00:14ARE TIMED AT THE SAME EXACT

3:00:15TIME HAVING THOSE EXTRA FIVE

3:00:17SECONDS TO GET INTO THE

3:00:18INTERSECTION BEFORE THE CARS

3:00:18ARE ALLOWED TO GO MAKES ALL THE

3:00:20DIFFERENCE IN TERMS OF BEING

3:00:21SEEN AND MAKING IT MUCH MORE

3:00:22SAFER FOR BOTH CYCLISTS AND

3:00:24PEDESTRIANS CROSS AND THEN

3:00:26BEYOND THAT, DORCHESTER SEES

3:00:27HIGH LEVELS OF CUT THROUGH

3:00:29TRAFFIC OF PEOPLE COMING OFF

3:00:30THE HIGHWAY THAT LEADS TO

3:00:31HIGHER SPEEDS AND LEADS TO

3:00:32PEOPLE DRIVING MORE FRUSTRATED,

3:00:33MORE DANGEROUSLY MORE GRIDLOCK

3:00:34AND JUST OVERALL MORE TRAFFIC

3:00:36STRESS FINDING WAYS TO TRAFFIC

3:00:37CALM AND MANAGE THE STRESS

3:00:39COMING IN THROUGH THE CITY

3:00:40WOULD BE HUGE IN TERMS OF JUST

3:00:42MAKING THE STREETS MORE

3:00:42FRIENDLY TO OUR.

3:00:43RESIDENTS AND WITH THAT.

3:00:44THE ROADS IN DORCHESTER DANISH

3:00:46FOR EVERYBODY NOT JUST THE

3:00:47CYCLIST, THE PEDESTRIANS AND

3:00:48THE DRIVERS AND CARS AS WELL.

3:00:49WE NEED TO MAKE THAT BETTER FOR

3:00:50EVERYONE.

3:00:50THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:00:52UM I'VE EXPERIENCED SOME

3:00:53OF WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT

3:00:54ESPECIALLY WITH MASS.

3:00:55UM, SO UM OKAY.

3:00:57DOROTHY FENNELL UH WE'RE GOING

3:00:59TO GO ONLINE NOW AND WE I'M

3:01:01GOING TO I'M GOING TO AUDIBLY

3:01:03SAY YOU'RE AT TIME BECAUSE IT

3:01:04CAN BE HARD TO HEAR THE BUZZER

3:01:06UM, WHEN YOU'RE VIRTUAL DOROTHY

3:01:08FENNELL THEN WE'RE GOING TO GO

3:01:10TO MIKE BRODSKY THEN WE'RE

3:01:11GOING TO GO TO A NALA AL BOOYAH

3:01:13I'LL BE BOOYAH.

3:01:15AND THEN SARAH FREEMAN.

3:01:19CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY YES GO

3:01:22AHEAD OKAY SO I SHOULD ADD.

3:01:23THAT I'M AT HOUSE.

3:01:25AT FRANKLIN PARK AND TODAY.

3:01:27>> IN FRONT OF A POLICE

3:01:27OFFICER.

3:01:28AT A STOP SIGN IN A CROSSWALK I

3:01:31ALMOST GOT HIT BY A CAR.

3:01:33SO, UH, MY NAME IS DOC FENNELL.

3:01:35I'M A TRANSPORTATION PLANNER

3:01:36WHOSE WORK IS FOCUSED ON

3:01:37HELPING MAJOR INSTITUTIONS

3:01:39SOLVE EMPLOYEE COMMUTES.

3:01:40I'VE WORKED FOR ORGANIZATIONS

3:01:42LIKE LONG THE COLLECTIVE MAPK

3:01:44IN A BETTER CITY AND IT'S

3:01:46IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT TODAY I

3:01:48DON'T SPEAK FOR THEM.

3:01:49I DON'T WORK FOR THEM ANYMORE.

3:01:50BUT THOSE EXPERIENCES HAVE

3:01:51REALLY SHAPED HOW I APPROACH

3:01:53URBAN MOBILITY.

3:01:54I'M ALSO A MOM TO THREE BOYS

3:01:56KIDS 13, TEN AND SEVEN.

3:01:58THEY RIDE THEIR BIKES TO

3:01:59SCHOOL, TAKE THE BUS AND

3:02:00SOMETIMES GET DRIVEN.

3:02:02I ORGANIZE OUR SCHOOL BIKE BUS

3:02:03THAT COUNCILOR WEBER HAS

3:02:04JOINED.

3:02:05COUNCILOR MURPHY HAS JOINED OUR

3:02:06WALK IN SCHOOL BUS AND WHILE

3:02:07THEY'RE NOT HERE TO TALK ABOUT

3:02:09HOW GREAT IT WAS, I'VE HAD

3:02:11POSITIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH

3:02:13COUNCILOR MEJIA, BOTH HER

3:02:14BROTHERS AND FITZGERALD WHILE

3:02:16RIDING THEM AROUND AND IN FRONT

3:02:18OF MY CARGO ELECTRIC UH BIKE.

3:02:21SO I COME TODAY WITH THREE

3:02:23SUGGESTIONS SOME HOMEWORK AND A

3:02:25POSITIVE ATTITUDE BECAUSE I

3:02:26THINK THAT THESE ARE THINGS

3:02:27THAT ARE ACHIEVABLE FIRST AND

3:02:29THE LAST PERSON TO TELL ANYONE

3:02:30THAT THEY NEED TO RIDE A BIKE.

3:02:32BUT I WILL SAY AND I THINK IS

3:02:34IS HELPFUL IN THE CONVERSATIONS

3:02:35THAT YOU HAVE COUNCILOR DURKAN

3:02:37,IS THAT WE NEED TO BE MAKING

3:02:40SURE THAT IT'S POSSIBLE FOR

3:02:41THOSE THAT WANT TO ARE ABLE TO

3:02:44DO SO SAFELY.

3:02:45UM, I THINK YOU NEED TO MAKE

3:02:46THE CASE THAT WHEN IT COMES TO

3:02:48IT'S ABOUT MOBILITY.

3:02:49IT'S NOT AN ALL OR NOTHING

3:02:51PROPOSITION.

3:02:52WE DON'T DRIVE OUR CARS EVERY

3:02:54DAY.

3:02:54WE DON'T RIDE OUR BIKES EVERY

3:02:55DAY.

3:02:56WE MAKE THE CHOICE THAT MAKES

3:02:57SENSE FOR THE WEATHER AND FOR

3:02:58WHERE WE'RE GOING.

3:02:59UH, BUT THE POINT IS THAT WE

3:03:00NEED TO BE HELPING PEOPLE GET

3:03:02OUT OF THEIR CARS.

3:03:03THIS IS MODE SHIFT AND IT'S

3:03:05REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THESE

3:03:06ESPECIALLY SHORT NEIGHBORHOOD

3:03:07TRIPS WHICH ARE THE MAJORITY

3:03:10OF WHAT WE'RE DOING IN OUR CITY

3:03:11OVER 50% OR THREE MILES OR LESS

3:03:14,WHICH IS THAT WE ALL KNOW IS

3:03:15LIKE A 2020 FIVE MINUTE BIKE

3:03:18RIDE.

3:03:19UM, I HAVE A FEELING THAT THOSE

3:03:20WHO ARE STILL PRESENT HAVE

3:03:22ALREADY DONE THIS.

3:03:23SO PLEASE SHARE WITH THE

3:03:24COUNCILORS WHO HAVE HAD TO

3:03:25LEAVE OR COULDN'T MAKE IT THE

3:03:27HOMEWORK SECTION WHICH IS

3:03:29PLEASE GO VISIT THE BIKE

3:03:31NETWORK IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD,

3:03:32WALK IT, RIDE IT, FIND THE GAPS

3:03:34.

3:03:35EXPERIENCE IT, TALK TO FOLKS

3:03:36WHO ACTUALLY USE IT.

3:03:38I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT

3:03:39FOR COUNCILORS HERE WHO HAVEN'T

3:03:41DONE THIS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IT

3:03:44REALLY FEELS LIKE TO RIDE THIS

3:03:46,KICK THE TIRES ON THIS

3:03:48INFRASTRUCTURE.

3:03:49LIKE OTHER FOLKS HAVE SAID,

3:03:50THIS IS PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE

3:03:52AND WE ORDER TO TALK ABOUT IT.

3:03:53WE NEED TO ACTUALLY KNOW.

3:03:54ABOUT IT.

3:03:56UM SECOND OUR CYCLING AND

3:03:57WALKING NETWORK GO HAND IN HAND

3:03:59AND OUR RESIDENTS AND VISITORS

3:04:00THEY ARE USING THEM

3:04:01INTERCHANGEABLY.

3:04:02UH, THE MINUTE YOU GET TO YOUR

3:04:03CAR, WHETHER IT'S AN MBTA PARK

3:04:04AND RIDE LIGHT OR YOU'RE ON

3:04:06COLUMBUS AVENUE NEAR WHERE I

3:04:08LIVE, UH, YOU'RE A PEDESTRIAN

3:04:09AND IF YOU GO ONE STEP FURTHER

3:04:11YOU'RE ON A BLUE BIKE AND

3:04:12YOU'RE A CYCLIST.

3:04:13SO, UH, SOME STATS FOR YOU.

3:04:15BOSTON IS ALREADY THE FOURTH

3:04:17HIGHEST PERFORMING BIKE SHARE

3:04:18SYSTEM IN THE U.S. I BELIEVE WE

3:04:21HAD 4.6 MILLION TRIPS IN 2025.

3:04:23KIM FOLTZ CAN CORRECT ME.

3:04:25UH, BUT THAT'S WITH OUR CURRENT

3:04:28FRAGMENTED GAPS NETWORK.

3:04:30SO IT'S WORKING PEOPLE ARE

3:04:31RIDING THESE BIKES.

3:04:32UM, SO THE QUESTION IS IMAGINE

3:04:34WHAT WE COULD DO IF WE FILL

3:04:35THOSE GAPS.

3:04:36WE COULD DO A LOT AND WE ARE

3:04:38VERY PROUD TO CALL OURSELF

3:04:40AMERICA'S WALKING CITY.

3:04:41AND SO NOW I'M GOING TO

3:04:42CHALLENGE US AS WE BUILD UP A

3:04:44NETWORK THAT WE SHOULD BE

3:04:45AIMING TO BE ALSO AMERICA'S

3:04:48BIKING CITY.

3:04:49I THINK THERE'S TOURISM

3:04:50OPPORTUNITIES LORI.

3:04:53THANK YOU DOROTHY.

3:04:54THAT WAS UM THAT WAS REALLY

3:04:56GOOD.

3:04:56I MEAN.

3:04:56CAN I MAKE.

3:04:57>> ONE LAST POINT?

3:04:58YES.

3:04:59>> OKAY.

3:04:59>> I HAVE ONE QUICK POINT AND

3:05:00THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT FOR

3:05:01THIS.

3:05:02SO I THINK THAT WE NEED TO BE

3:05:03MINDFUL ABOUT EXPANDING ON THIS

3:05:05TERM ABOUT BIKE NETWORK BECAUSE

3:05:07IT COMES BECOMES VERY

3:05:09POLARIZED.

3:05:09I'VE BEEN RIDING THE BIKE

3:05:11NETWORK I DRIVE TO I WE HAVE

3:05:13CARS IN MY FAMILY BUT I HAVE

3:05:15BEEN ON THIS BIKE NETWORK FOR

3:05:1825 YEARS.

3:05:18I TALKED TO CONSTRUCTION

3:05:20WORKERS, I TALKED TO MEDICAL

3:05:21WORKERS LIKE A MAN HAD SAID WHO

3:05:23ARE ON SCOOTERS BECAUSE THERE'S

3:05:25NO PARKING AT THEIR JOB SITE OR

3:05:27IN THE LONGWOOD MEDICAL AREA.

3:05:29I TALKED TO ELDERS WHO ON

3:05:30SEATED SCOOTERS OR UH ELECTRIC

3:05:33CHAIRS UM I SEE MORE AND MORE

3:05:36FAMILIES LIKE MYSELF WHO PUT

3:05:37THEIR KIDS ON BIKES AND THE

3:05:39IMPORTANT THING IS LIKE I'M NOW

3:05:40BICYCLING E-MOTOR MOTOR RIDERS

3:05:42,GIG WORKERS THEY'RE ALL

3:05:43CHOOSING NOT TO BE IN A CAR.

3:05:46AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT

3:05:48THAT WE TALK ABOUT THIS NETWORK

3:05:50AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT ARE

3:05:52SERVING MEAN LIKE IT IS IT IS

3:05:54WORKING LIKE I'M SEEING

3:05:56CHILDREN RIDE BY THEMSELVES AND

3:05:59THESE ARE OUR MOST VULNERABLE

3:06:01USERS AND THEY'RE IN SECTIONS

3:06:03IN DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.

3:06:03AND SO LET'S TAKE A MOMENT TO

3:06:05CELEBRATE THIS UM AND THAT I'M

3:06:07ALWAYS HAPPY TO TALK FOR

3:06:09TRANSPORTATION DEMAND

3:06:10MANAGEMENT BUT I WANT TO

3:06:12CONGRATULATE FOLKS LIKE YOU ARE

3:06:13DOING GOOD WORK.

3:06:13THANKS TO ABBY.

3:06:15UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:06:17YEAH, I DO THINK THAT HAS BEEN

3:06:18MISSING FROM THIS CONVERSATION

3:06:20IS JUST THE FACT THAT LIKE AT

3:06:22LEAST IN MY DISTRICTS UM, I

3:06:24MEAN, UH I MEAN I WATCH THE

3:06:26BLUE BIKES BE FULL AND THEN I

3:06:28WATCH LIKE 20 MINUTES LATER

3:06:30THEY'RE COMPLETELY GONE AND WE

3:06:32NEED MORE CAPACITY.

3:06:33UM, AND I THINK THAT LIKE IT'S

3:06:35VERY IT CAN BE VERY POLARIZING

3:06:37TO THE POINT WHERE PEOPLE YOU

3:06:38KNOW HAVE NOT VOTED FOR THE

3:06:40CONTRACT TO RE YOU KNOW, UP THE

3:06:42BLUE BIKES AND THEY VOTED FOR

3:06:44THE GRANT MONEY THAT WE GET FOR

3:06:45THE BLUE BIKES AND IT TO TO BE

3:06:47HONEST I THINK IT'S LUDDITE

3:06:50BEHAVIOR BECAUSE IT IS THAT IS

3:06:52ALL OF THE TOURISM DOLLARS THAT

3:06:55ARE FLOWING INTO OUR CITY.

3:06:56ALL OF THOSE TOURISTS ARE USING

3:06:58BLUE BIKES.

3:06:59WE NEED TO GET THEM BETTER

3:07:00TRAINED ON HOW TO STAY SAFE.

3:07:01AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING

3:07:03THAT'S COMING OUT OF THIS

3:07:03HEARING FOR ME.

3:07:04BUT ALL IN ALL I THINK WE NEED

3:07:06TO BE A LEADER.

3:07:07WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT THAT

3:07:09BEING A LEADER IN BIKES IS

3:07:11BEING A LEADER IN TOURISM.

3:07:13AND I THINK WE'RE NOT

3:07:14CONNECTING THOSE DOLLARS AND

3:07:15WE'RE NOT CONNECTING THOSE UH,

3:07:17THOSE MODES.

3:07:18AND I HAVE BIKED DIRECTLY UH,

3:07:21TO BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

3:07:23AND NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND BIKE

3:07:24PARKING EVEN ILLEGAL BIKE

3:07:25PARKING UM, FOR MY BIKE.

3:07:28SO IT'S VERY CLEAR THAT UM

3:07:30THERE ARE CERTAIN AREAS OF THE

3:07:31CITY WHERE PEOPLE ARE COMING

3:07:32FROM ALL OVER THE CITY AND THEY

3:07:34DO NOT HAVE BIKE PARKING SO WE

3:07:36HAVE TO INVEST IN THAT.

3:07:37SO UM, WE HAVE MIKE PODOLSKY

3:07:39UH, A NALA AND THEN SARAH AND

3:07:42THEN WE'RE GOING TO CLOSE OUT

3:07:43THE HEARING.

3:07:43I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES

3:07:44FOR THEIR PATIENCE.

3:07:46UM, AND AND EVERYONE WHO'S

3:07:47TESTIFYING FOR THEIR PATIENCE.

3:07:49THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:07:50OKAY.

3:07:51>> AND MALIA.

3:07:55HI.

3:07:56>> MY NAME IS ANNA YAHOO I LIVE

3:07:58IN JAMAICA PLAIN AND I WORK AT

3:08:00NORTHEASTERN SO UM UH MY BIKE

3:08:02COMMUTE IS.

3:08:03MOSTLY ON THE SOUTHWEST

3:08:04CORRIDOR AND IT'S REALLY REALLY

3:08:05LOVELY.

3:08:06I LOVE BEING ABLE TO.

3:08:07GET FRESH AIR EVERY DAY, SPEND

3:08:10TIME OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW ALL THE

3:08:12BEING ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THE

3:08:13SEASONS AND UM REALLY GET TO

3:08:15ENJOY THE BEAUTY OF THE CITY.

3:08:17ECHOING WHAT SOME PEOPLE SAID

3:08:18BEFORE THAT UM BEING ABLE TO

3:08:20BIKE SAFELY IS REALLY A

3:08:22BEAUTIFUL EXPERIENCE.

3:08:23UM, SO I'M GRATEFUL FOR ALL THE

3:08:25THE TIME THAT I GET TO SPEND ON

3:08:26THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR WHERE I

3:08:27FEEL MOSTLY PROTECTED UH, FROM

3:08:29CARS.

3:08:30BUT THERE ARE THOSE GAPS FOR

3:08:32ME.

3:08:32UM, IT'S HYDE PARK AS GETTING

3:08:35ONTO THE SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR

3:08:35COMING NORTH.

3:08:37UM, MY NEIGHBORS AND I HAVE

3:08:38BEEN ADVOCATING FOR, UH, SAFER

3:08:42BIKE AND PEDESTRIAN

3:08:43INFRASTRUCTURE ON THAT STRETCH

3:08:44OF ROAD FOR YEARS.

3:08:45I'M REALLY GRATEFUL FOR THE

3:08:48REPAVING THAT JUST HAPPENED AND

3:08:49SOME OF THOSE CHANGES.

3:08:50UM, BUT NOW WE DON'T EVEN HAVE

3:08:52A SHARROW.

3:08:53THERE'S ACTUALLY NO, UM, BIKE

3:08:55INFRASTRUCTURE AT ALL ON HYDE

3:08:57PARK AND IT'S SUCH A CLOSE

3:08:59CONNECTION TO AND YOU.

3:09:00>> SAY THAT AGAIN AN ALIA WHERE

3:09:02YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

3:09:02THE THE HYDE PARK UH,

3:09:05CONNECTING TO.

3:09:06YES WE HAD A WHOLE HERE ON THAT

3:09:08OKAY.

3:09:09YEAH SO FROM FOR ME IT'S FROM

3:09:10MARCO STREET UP TO THE

3:09:12SOUTHWEST CORRIDOR THERE'S THEY

3:09:14JUST REPAVED IT NOW THERE'S

3:09:15THERE'S NOT EVEN A SHARE OF SO

3:09:17UM I'M I'M HOPEFUL THAT THE

3:09:19OTHER CHANGES WILL SLOW DOWN

3:09:21TRAFFIC BUT, UH, BUT ACTUAL

3:09:23BIKE INFRASTRUCTURE WOULD BE A

3:09:25SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT THERE.

3:09:26UM, ONE THING I WANTED TO POINT

3:09:28OUT TOO THAT CAME UP A LOT IS

3:09:30UH, THE DOUBLE PARKING AND THE

3:09:32UM, THE HARMFUL DRIVER

3:09:34BEHAVIOR.

3:09:34UH, THERE SEEMS TO BE A LOT

3:09:37OF CONCERN ABOUT SLOWING DOWN

3:09:38TRAFFIC AND DOUBLE PARKING

3:09:39SLOWS DOWN TRAFFIC LIKE IT

3:09:41REALLY BLOWS MY MIND THAT CARS

3:09:42JUST STOPPED DRIVING IN THE

3:09:43MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND ON MY

3:09:45BIKE I HAVE TO GO AROUND THEM.

3:09:47UM, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT

3:09:49TRUCKS THAT HAPPENS A LOT ON

3:09:50SOUTH STREET AND JAMAICA PLAIN

3:09:51WHERE THERE'S ALSO JUST SHARROW

3:09:53THERE'S NO UM WHITE GATE BIKE

3:09:55LANE OR ANYTHING.

3:09:56SO UH EVERYBODY IS SLOW DOWN

3:09:58AND SO UM I WOULD LIKE TO PUSH

3:10:00THAT CONVERSATION TO SEE WHAT

3:10:02IF WE EVEN IF EVEN IF UH

3:10:04THERE'S A WAY TO TO CONNECT THE

3:10:06PEOPLE WHO ARE CONCERNED ABOUT

3:10:07BIKE TRAFFIC AND THE PEOPLE WHO

3:10:09ARE CONCERNED ABOUT CARS AND

3:10:11WASTE OF TIME HARMON ROAD AND

3:10:12THEN I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY

3:10:13THE OTHER THING I I WORK AT

3:10:15NORTHEASTERN AND SO I CAN GET

3:10:16HOME AND TO WORK UM PRETTY

3:10:18EASILY BUT GOING ANYWHERE ELSE

3:10:20SOMETIMES CAN BE CHALLENGING.

3:10:22SO WHEN I WANTED TO GO TO

3:10:23DINNER AT DORCHESTER A FEW

3:10:25WEEKS AGO, I OPTED TO BIKE BACK

3:10:27HOME AND THEN GET IN MY CAR AND

3:10:28DRIVE BECAUSE I ALSO DIDN'T

3:10:29WANT TO BIKE ON COLUMBIA ROAD

3:10:31UM WHICH WAS MENTIONED EARLIER

3:10:32.

3:10:32SO UM I JUST WANT TO ECHO THAT

3:10:34THERE'S THE THOSE GAPS IN

3:10:35CONNECTIVITY MAKE IT SO THAT

3:10:37BIKING CAN'T BE MY GO TO FOR

3:10:39THE WHOLE.

3:10:40FOR ALL.

3:10:40>> OF.

3:10:40THE WAYS I WANT.

3:10:41>> TO GET AROUND.

3:10:42THANK YOU.

3:10:42UM, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE

3:10:43WAS A, UM, YOU KNOW, A DINNER

3:10:46SPOT IN DORCHESTER THAT ALSO

3:10:47DIDN'T GET YOUR MONEY THAT

3:10:48NIGHT BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T GET

3:10:50THERE SAFELY.

3:10:51SO I THINK THERE'S A FINANCIAL

3:10:53COMPONENT, THERE'S A TOURISM

3:10:54COMPONENT, THERE'S A SMALL

3:10:55BUSINESS COMPONENT AND WE HAVE

3:10:57TO TALK ABOUT THOSE THINGS.

3:10:58SO THANK YOU.

3:10:59ANNA LEAH.

3:11:00UM, SARAH, UM YOU HAVE THE

3:11:03FLOOR AND YOU'RE THE LAST I

3:11:05THINK YOU'RE BELIEVE YOU'RE THE

3:11:06LAST PERSON TO TESTIFY SO MAYBE

3:11:09SO MAKE IT GOOD.

3:11:10SARAH I'LL TRY.

3:11:13>> TO MAKE IT GOOD AND BRIEF

3:11:15BECAUSE IT.

3:11:15HAS BEEN LONG.

3:11:17UM.

3:11:18THANK YOU ALL FOR.

3:11:20UH, HOLDING THIS HEARING ON

3:11:23WHAT FOR ME HAS BEEN, UM, A 30

3:11:27PLUS YEAR EFFORT.

3:11:29UM, I MOVED.

3:11:32TO JP IN 1993 AND IN 96 WE

3:11:37STARTED.

3:11:37THE ARBOR DAY COALITION.

3:11:41UM, AND IT'S BEEN VERY PAINFUL

3:11:45.

3:11:46UM, PREVIOUS SPEAKERS TALKED

3:11:49ABOUT UM, PERSONAL NEAR MISSES

3:11:55OR FEELING LIKE THEY'RE WASTING

3:11:57TIME AND FOR ME, UH,

3:12:02REPRESENTING A FRONT GROUP THAT

3:12:04IS TRYING TO ACHIEVE SAFETY

3:12:06WHEN THERE ARE CRASHES AND ON

3:12:10OCTOBER 11TH A FATALITY IT JUST

3:12:14FEELS LIKE THAT SHOULDN'T HAVE

3:12:17WHAT HAPPENED ON THE ARBOR WAY

3:12:20SHOULDN'T HAPPEN IN THE CITY

3:12:22OF BOSTON.

3:12:22IT'S A DCR ROAD BUT FOR A CAR

3:12:26TO BE GOING SO FAST THAT IT

3:12:28JUMPS A MEDIAN AND HITS A CAR

3:12:31THAT ON THE OTHER DIRECTIONS.

3:12:34IT JUST SHOULDN'T HAPPEN.

3:12:36AND SO UM, PUTTING IN A.

3:12:39REQUEST TO COLLABORATE I KNOW

3:12:41PEOPLE I CAN'T TELL IF THEY'RE

3:12:43STILL HERE.

3:12:44UH, CHRIS OSGOOD MENTIONED

3:12:46WORKING WITH THE T OR UM,

3:12:49CONNECTING TO THE PAUL DUDLEY

3:12:51WHITE PETS THAT ARE DCR.

3:12:54THE CITY HAS A ROLE TO CREATE

3:12:58IN MY VIEW SAFE CONDITIONS

3:13:02EVERY GAP IS A DETERRENT

3:13:04WHETHER IT'S COLUMBIA ROAD,

3:13:06HYDE PARK HAVE IT PEOPLE ARE

3:13:09NOT SHOULD NOT HAVE TO PUT

3:13:11THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE AND IT

3:13:13ONLY TAKES A MISSING SECTION TO

3:13:16MAKE THE WHOLE ROUTE NOT

3:13:19FEASIBLE.

3:13:19THANK YOU.

3:13:20>> SO OKAY, I'LL STOP THERE.

3:13:23UH, IF I MISSED ANYTHING BIG,

3:13:25I'LL PUT IT IN WRITING.

3:13:26THANK YOU.

3:13:28OKAY.

3:13:28>> THANK YOU SO MUCH.

3:13:29WE'RE GOING TO DO CLOSING

3:13:30STATEMENTS STARTING WITH BEN

3:13:31WEBER AND I'M GOING TO KEEP IT

3:13:32TO TIME BECAUSE I KNOW

3:13:33EVERYONE'S BEEN HERE FOR A

3:13:34WHILE, SO.

3:13:36UH YEAH, I DON'T KNOW.

3:13:38I WAS REMINDED OF GEORGE THESE

3:13:39GARDENS, THE DOCTOR STRANGELOVE

3:13:41WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GAPS.

3:13:42UH, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE

3:13:44MINESHAFT GAP HERE.

3:13:45WE HEARD ABOUT TOO MANY GAPS,

3:13:46UH, BETWEEN BOSTON AND

3:13:49SURROUNDING CITIES AND I MY

3:13:50MESSAGE IS REALLY FOR CHIEF

3:13:52OSGOOD.

3:13:53YOU KNOW, LET'S TAKE CONCRETE

3:13:54STEPS TO NARROW THOSE GAPS.

3:13:56LET'S LET'S AMEND THE TRUCK

3:13:57ORDINANCE.

3:13:58LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW TO HOW TO

3:14:00HAVE A COMMUNITY PROCESS WHICH

3:14:02WE WHICH WE DON'T WE HAVEN'T

3:14:04HAD FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS NOW

3:14:05AROUND SPEED BUMPS AND SAFETY,

3:14:08UH, MEASURES ON OUR STREETS AND

3:14:10AND YOU KNOW, HAVE ACTUAL

3:14:12CONCRETE GOALS AND MEASURES

3:14:15THAT YOU KNOW, HOW WE'RE GOING

3:14:16TO, UH, PUT IN THIS

3:14:18INFRASTRUCTURE TO MAKE OUR CITY

3:14:19SAFER.

3:14:20SO, UH, BUT THE FINISHED EARLY

3:14:23SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

3:14:24THANK YOU, COUNCILOR WEBER.

3:14:26COUNCILOR PEPEN.

3:14:27THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.

3:14:28I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU

3:14:29FOR EVERYONE FOR BEING HERE

3:14:30THIS TOPIC THERE'S A REASON WHY

3:14:33THIS IS THE NUMBER ONE TOPIC I

3:14:34SPEAK ABOUT.

3:14:34IT'S SAFE STREETS.

3:14:35IT'S A TOPIC THAT SOMETHING

3:14:37THAT IMPACTS ALL OF US NO

3:14:38MATTER WHAT FORM

3:14:39OF TRANSPORTATION WE TAKE.

3:14:41UM YOU ALL KNOW ABOUT THE

3:14:42ORDINANCE THAT WE PUT FORWARD

3:14:43WITH COUNCILOR BREADON AND I

3:14:44HONESTLY SEE THAT AS A FIRST

3:14:45STEP.

3:14:46I DO WANT US TO GET TO THE SAFE

3:14:48STREETS ORDINANCE PIECE WHERE

3:14:49IT'S SOMETHING CONCRETE AND

3:14:51TANGIBLE AND WE HAVE

3:14:52MEASURABLES TO MAKE SURE THAT

3:14:53THE CITY OF BOSTON JUST

3:14:54CONTINUES TO MOVE IN THE RIGHT

3:14:55DIRECTION AND WE DELIVER SAFE

3:14:57STREETS.

3:14:57I KNOW THAT THAT IS A

3:14:58COMMITMENT FROM CHIEF OSGOOD.

3:14:59I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S

3:15:00SOMETHING THAT WE HEAR.

3:15:02I CALL THIS THE SAFE STREETS

3:15:03CAUCUS.

3:15:03UM, FOR FOR THESE THESE FOUR

3:15:05COUNCILORS.

3:15:06>> HERE.

3:15:07YOU KNOW, UM, I KNOW THAT IT'S

3:15:09ONE OF OUR TOP PRIORITIES AND

3:15:10YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WE ARE

3:15:12SUCCEEDING.

3:15:13I AM SUCCEEDING AS A CITY

3:15:14COUNCILOR WHEN I GET A MESSAGE

3:15:15FROM A RESIDENT THAT SAYS NOW I

3:15:17HATE DRIVING ON THIS STREET

3:15:19BECAUSE OF THIS SPEED HUMP AND

3:15:20I'M JUST LIKE, WHY DO.

3:15:21>> YOU HATE IT?

3:15:22WELL, BECAUSE I HAVE TO DRIVE

3:15:23SLOWER NOW AND I'M LIKE THAT'S

3:15:24THE WHOLE POINT.

3:15:25WE HAVE TO DRIVE SLOWER.

3:15:27WE HAVE TO BE MORE MINDFUL AS

3:15:29AS PEOPLE BEHIND THE WHEELS AND

3:15:31MAKE STREETS SAFER FOR ALL

3:15:32OF BOSTON.

3:15:32THANK YOU.

3:15:33COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRATTON.

3:15:35THANK YOU, MADAM.

3:15:36CHAIR AND THANK YOU TO MY

3:15:38COLLEAGUES FOR LEADING IN THIS

3:15:39SPACE.

3:15:40>> AND THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING

3:15:40HERE.

3:15:41UH IT'S BEEN A REALLY GOOD

3:15:43CONVERSATION AND I THINK UH,

3:15:45IT'S GIVEN US A LOT TO THINK

3:15:46ABOUT AND UM, UM, LET'S JUST

3:15:49CONTINUE THE WORK.

3:15:50THERE'S SO MUCH TO DO AND WE

3:15:52HAVE A LOT UM WE HAVE A LOT WE

3:15:55CAN DO AND AS SOMEONE SAID,

3:15:56WHEN THERE'S A WILL THERE'S A

3:15:57WAY IT MAY NOT YOU KNOW IT'S

3:15:58NOT GOING TO GET DONE QUICKLY.

3:16:00BUT IF WE CONSTANTLY SORT

3:16:01OF CAN DOCUMENT, UH, PROGRESS

3:16:04TOWARDS STATED GOALS, I THINK

3:16:06IF WE HAVE MEASURABLES AND DATA

3:16:08AND WE MAKE PROGRESS YEAR ON

3:16:10YEAR TO STATED GOALS, UH, AS

3:16:12LONG AS WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS,

3:16:14LET'S DO IT.

3:16:15THANK YOU.

3:16:16THANK YOU.

3:16:17UM, AND THIS MIGHT BE MY

3:16:18VERSION OF THE MALAISE SPEECH,

3:16:20BUT I'M GOING TO PRIORITIZE

3:16:22HUMAN LIFE OVER PERSONAL

3:16:24CONVENIENCE IN THE CITY

3:16:26OF BOSTON.

3:16:26AND I THINK WE HAVE VARIOUS

3:16:28OPINIONS AND VARIOUS CHARGES

3:16:30OF CITY COUNCILORS.

3:16:31BUT THAT IS OUR GOAL HERE AND I

3:16:33THINK VISION ZERO HAS TO BE OUR

3:16:35GOAL.

3:16:36UM, NOT ONE MORE LIFE TAKEN ON

3:16:40NECESSARILY ON OUR STREETS HAS

3:16:41TO BE OUR GOAL.

3:16:42UM AND I THINK IT'S CLEAR THAT

3:16:45WITH COUNCILOR WEBER,

3:16:47COUNCILOR BEN, COUNCILOR AND

3:16:48OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT BRADEN'S

3:16:49LEADERSHIP LIKE WE ARE, WE ARE

3:16:52WORKING TOWARDS ACCOMPLISHING

3:16:52THOSE THINGS.

3:16:53AND I JUST WANT TO THANK THE

3:16:55ADMINISTRATION, UH, FOR COMING

3:16:57TO THE TABLE AND BEING CLOSE

3:16:58PARTNERS ON THIS.

3:16:59WE WE CANNOT WE CANNOT DO THIS

3:17:01WITHOUT PARTNERSHIP AND WE

3:17:03CAN'T UM WE CAN'T LEAD IN OUR

3:17:05CITY WITHOUT PARTNERSHIP.

3:17:07AND I THINK THAT ULTIMATELY IF

3:17:09I'M GOING TO UM IF I'M GOING TO

3:17:12SAY SAY ONE THING IT'S UM WE'VE

3:17:16DONE A GREAT JOB WITH GO BOSTON

3:17:192030 AND ALL THE PLANS THAT ARE

3:17:21IN PLACE.

3:17:21WHAT'S NEXT?

3:17:22HOW DO WE MOVE FORWARD FROM

3:17:23HERE AND UH, THOSE SPOT GAPS

3:17:26THAT EXIST WITHIN THE NETWORK

3:17:27THAT ARE THAT ARE HIGH CROSS

3:17:29BORDERS, HOW DO WE MOVE

3:17:30QUICKLY, AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE

3:17:32TO MAKE SURE THAT NO ONE DIES

3:17:34ON OUR STREETS?

3:17:35UH, WE'VE ALL BEEN RADICALIZED

3:17:37BY THIS MOMENT THAT WE'RE IN.

3:17:39WE CAN'T SQUANDER THIS MOMENT

3:17:40THAT WE'RE IN.

3:17:41WE NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY.

3:17:43AND I WANT TO THANK UM THANK

3:17:46EVERYONE WHO HAS SHOWN, UM,

3:17:48THEIR COURAGEOUSNESS IN COMING

3:17:49HERE AND THEIR TIME.

3:17:51I KNOW IT FEELS LIKE YOU COME

3:17:53HERE.

3:17:53YOU COME HERE AGAIN, YOU COME

3:17:54HERE AGAIN.

3:17:55BUT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS.

3:17:56WE TRULY ARE ALL OF THE

3:17:57CONCEPTS THAT WE'VE DESCRIBED

3:17:59HERE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WE'RE

3:18:00MOVING IN PARTNERSHIP.

3:18:02WE'RE TRYING TO GET THINGS

3:18:03DONE.

3:18:04UM, AND I KNOW WE'VE ALL LOST A

3:18:05FRIEND WE HAVE THIS YEAR AND

3:18:07RIGHT NOW WE ARE MOVING AS

3:18:10QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE TO MAKE

3:18:12SURE THAT WE ARE ACTUALLY

3:18:16DELIVERING ON THE PROMISE THAT

3:18:18IS SAFE STREETS IN THE CITY

3:18:19OF BOSTON AND I UM AND AND THAT

3:18:22MEANS NOT LETTING FEDERAL

3:18:24FUNDING GO ON USE THAT MEANS

3:18:26UH, MOVING FORWARD ON BUS BIKE

3:18:29PED INFRASTRUCTURE.

3:18:31SO I'M GRATEFUL TO EVERYONE FOR

3:18:32THEIR TIME THE DOCKETS ON THESE

3:18:34DOCKETS 1418 AND ONE FIVE FOR

3:18:38TWO WILL REMAIN IN COMMITTEE

3:18:39AND THIS HEARING IS ADJOURNED.

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