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Boston committee reviews $9 million USDOT Safe Streets grant to redesign nine high‑risk intersections
Summary
The committee heard Streets Cabinet staff describe a federal Safe Streets and Roads for All grant to fund design, engagement and construction of safety improvements at nine city intersections; staff said the grant agreement is signed and work must be completed by summer 2029. The council did not take a recorded vote at the hearing.
Councilor Sharon Durkin, District 8 city councilor and chair of the Boston City Council Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation, led a June 18 hearing that included docket 0720, an order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend $9,000,000 in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Safe Streets and Roads for All program.
The grant is intended to fund "low cost, high impact" safety and design work at intersections the administration identified as high crash or high risk. Lydia Housley, capital projects design director in the Streets Cabinet (Public Works), told the…
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