Asked the City Manager to confer with the Director of Traffic, Parking and Transportation and report back on what steps can be taken to improve the safety of large trucks and minimize or prevent dangerous conflicts with bicyclist and pedestrians, provide an update on the City's Pilot Program on truck guards and the 2015 accident report of the fatal bike collision at Cambridgeport Whole Foods and analyze the traffic pattern in Inman Square

How it started

May 23, 2016 · Proposed by Councillor Timothy J. Toomey: a formal request from the Council to the administration.

What happened

May 23, 2016 · ✅ Order adopted as amended. The Council's request went to the City Manager.

Present and voting at this meeting (9)

Craig A. Kelley
David Maher
Dennis Carlone
E. Denise Simmons
Jan Devereux
Leland Cheung
Marc McGovern
Nadeem Mazen
Timothy J. Toomey

Adopted by voice vote. A voice vote records the outcome, not individual positions. No member's yes or no is on the record (though a member can ask to be recorded in the negative in the minutes). Showing the members who cast recorded votes at this meeting. Rule 6 requires a roll call for spending over $50 or on any member's request; state law requires one for every vote when a member participates remotely. · photos: City of Cambridge

What’s next

⌛ No response on the docket: nothing has been filed back under this request's number. Answers sometimes arrive as other items; this ledger tracks only this one.

The document a council order

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City of Cambridge

IN CITY COUNCIL

May 23, 2016

ORDERED: That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to confer with the Director of Traffic, Parking and Transportation and report back on what steps can be taken to improve the safety of large trucks and minimize or prevent dangerous conflicts with bicyclist and pedestrians within the City of Cambridge.

🗓 The meeting where this was taken up: May 23, 2016