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Residents press council for public-restroom funding, bike-lane protections and release of South End Library capital funds
Summary
At the March 24 listening session, neighborhood advocates sought capital and operating changes: release of South End Library funds, pilot grants for planter barriers to enforce bike lanes in West Roxbury, and expanded public-restroom access near transit hubs.
Neighborhood advocates used the March 24 Ways and Means hearing to press councilors on several infrastructure and capital priorities.
Yvette Jaro, president of the Friends of the South End Library, asked the committee to support releasing capital funds approved for the South End Library project so construction can start. "We've been closed for almost 5 years," she said, urging the committee to influence…
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