Boston City Councilor Ed Flynn is pushing for the city to ban mopeds, scooters and other e-bikes from being used to make third-party food deliveries, given the “safety crisis” that he says those drivers create by flouting traffic rules.

Flynn on Wednesday plans to introduce an amendment to a mayoral ordinance that was approved by the City Council in April as a way to curb “dangerous” food delivery scooter operations. The city ordinance requires all national third-party delivery platforms, particularly Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub, to obtain liability insurance for all workers utilizing their platform in order to receive a permit to operate in Boston.

Flynn’s amendment would go a step further, by banning those third-party drivers from using motorized bikes to make deliveries. The city

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