BOSTON – On Monday, June 9th at 2 p.m., Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn will hold a City Council hearing to discuss pedestrian safety, traffic-calming infrastructure and expansion of the Safety Surge program in the City of Boston. Pedestrian safety has long been a top priority for Councilor Flynn. For over 7 years, he has held hearings and advocated for traffic-calming infrastructure – such as raised crosswalks, speed humps, and pedestrian safety islands with rapid flash beacons – to be placed on our main streets, commercial roads and high traffic corridors, where the majority of vehicular and pedestrian foot traffic meet. In 2018, he recommended a detailed 12-Point pedestrian safety plan to the city based on the use of this infrastructure.

In 2019, after a pedestrian fatality at the site

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