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BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — Street design efforts on Tremont Street are expected to go under review after several complaints from residents and business owners about functionality.
The Tremont Street Design Project, which focused on fixing bike lanes, flex-posts, and restriping in the area, has created issues for some Bostonians, according to City Councilor Ed Flynn.
“The removal of road space and visitor parking spaces has made it almost impossible for commercial and delivery vehicles or patrons looking to park — visitors looking to go to the harbor,” said Flynn.
Flynn claims that the new road designs are costing businesses money in lost sales and customers while also impeding first responders' abilities to get to emergencies.
Road diet efforts that were meant to make Tremont Street safer for pedestrians and bicyclists have made life harder for shoppers and motorists.
"The constituency in my district, which shares Tremont, has expressed, virulently, they are in opposition to this,” Roxbury Councilor Tania Fernandes Anderson said.
Fernandes Anderson stated that while she believes bike lanes are a good thing, the city needs to do a cross-neighborhood study to see how they might affect people in different areas.
The city council voted to approve the order to have a hearing for a review of the project.
WBZ NewsRadio’s James Rojas (@JamesRojasMMJ) reports.