Simple repaving not enough to make Hyde Park Avenue safe, Forest Hills residents say

Walkers pause at one of the avenue's worst intersections, at Ukraine Way.

Forest Hills residents and people who travel Hyde Park Avenue yesterday held a "safety walk" to look at everything that's wrong on the road and come up with ways to press a City Hall administration into making safety improvements - nearly a year after a Forest Hills man died under the wheels of a turning MBTA bus at Forest Hills station when both had a green light, and almost a week after a hearing at which administration officials announced a plan that consisted mainly of repaving the road.

At an ad-hoc strategy session at the end of the walk from Pagel Playground to Tower Street, the roughly 20 people in attendance agreed one of their next step would be a march right down one of the car lanes on Hyde Park - after