Police seek photos, videos related to crash that killed young boy in South Boston

No more fooling around. No more putting the needs of motorists over people living and walking on a street. Enough is enough. This is absolutely tragic and preventable.

- Speed humps
- Red light cameras
- Separated bike lanes
- Raised crosswalks
- Remove parking where necessary to create sight lines
- Whatever else is necessary

We know what works yet are not doing it. What more do we need to witness before we do something? This innocent child is dead for being on the SIDEWALK. This is a public health crisis as bad as the opioid epidemic yet our political leaders act like these are just unfortunate acts of god. I call BS on that and everyone else should too.

Let's dedicate money toward hiring cops that are soley dedicated to writing tickets to drivers for moving violations just like we have people dedicated to writing tickects for parking violations. Time to shift the focus to pedestrian safety.

Two pedestrians were hit and killed by a driver on Beacon St. in the Back Back years ago and NOTHING has been done to improve pedestrian safety there. The only thing that has changed is that a dedicated bike lane has been created thus moving parked cars further into the street so now pedestrians trying to cross the street have to fight with cars zipping through red lights with a diminished line of vision into oncoming traffic. We pedestrians can't see over cars when they're that far away from the sidewalk! Cars run red lights and stop signs and hit and kill people. Drivers still drag race down Beacon St. and all we pedestrians and residents hear about is more bike lanes! Bike lanes do not help pedestrians! I would much rather see cyclists take the full lane as the are lawfully allowed to do and drivers better just damn well get used to it, slow down and pay attention, and if you can't do that as a driver then stay the hell out of Boston!

This is entirely correct. The only difference between a Boston impeded by car-gorged arteries and a Boston that is safe for people not in cars is that in the latter case fewer pedestrians and cyclists die.

Impede impede impede--speed bumps, bike lanes, all of that. Make it impossible for cars to go fast. All that happens now is cars act like pent up bulls stuck in gridlock most of the time, only to explode into a murderous full gallop at every opportunity. Stop the madness. Impede the progress of motor vehicles. All that I am calling for in effect, is a stop to motorist's ability to do Maximum Psychotic Burst Speed.

I don't care what bicyclists do as long as they stay off the sidewalks.
Sidewalks are for pedestrians.
Bike lanes are for bikes.
The rest of the road is for motor vehicles.

If cyclists and pedestrians want to venture onto the vehicle lanes when the traffic signals say "no", good luck to them but they're not allowed to complain if they get hit by a car.

Cyclists riding on the sidewalk are not allowed to complain when I push them off onto the road.

Motor vehicles are also prohibited from driving on the sidewalks.

Is there a good database that tracks these things? Like collisions and injuries before roadway changes at a particular location, and then after traffic calming modifications have been made? As someone who bikes and walks religiously and drives occasionally, I feel like biking has been made safer, walking has been made more complicated, and driving has become more dangerous. But that's just anecdotal and emotional. Are we quantifying all of this in any way that we can actually track the efficacy of the changes?

It was a massive success, nailed hundreds of speeders the first week. Pays for itself in a few months then it’s revenue. I’ve heard police don’t want to do this because insurance premiums get jacked up so fast for moving violations they don’t want to look like they’re hanging citizens out to dry for Liberty Mutual. But I could care less, I drive the speed limit in the city so I don’t kill anyone. Centre Street Roslindale/ West Roxbury from Weld to Holy Name is insane and I worry every day that awful accident is about to happen. People drive with “highway mindset” that when the car in front of you slows down just go around it. I’ve had people go around the car that stopped for me in the crosswalk and almost hit us. At the rotary you rarely don’t hear someone three cars back honking when someone lets pedestrians cross. There’s one officer who patrols traffic and does a great job but he can only be there so many hours in a week and stop one car at a time.

and a bunch of morons will tell you that nobody drives anymore. 3500 cars go up L Street at rush hour every day. And no, bike lanes will do nothing.

There is almost ZERO traffic rule enforcement across the city of Boston (period). The only way to enforce laws is with consequences! No one wants a ticket, however, most ignore the traffic laws if no one is there to enforce them.

Something as simple as using a directional signal. ZERO enforcement, means nearly no one uses them. I am a lifelong Boston resident and I travel all over this country regularly. The threat of traffic law enforcement is non-existent in the city of Boston! Where other states patrol and enforce traffic laws (besides speeding and DUI).

The city needs to get back to basic traffic enforcement in order to help restore some sort of traffic order in this city.

IMHO