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Pepén and Breadon Use City Council’s Tools to Press for Safer Streets

Councilors Enrique Pepén and Liz Breadon used the Council’s limited tools to advance Vision Zero and demand public reporting on stalled street projects.

July 24, 20261 min read
Safe Streets Can’t Wait sign beside a call for Boston to prioritize making its streets safer

At a moment when Boston residents have been demanding that City Hall act with urgency, Councilor Enrique Pepén (District 5) and Council President Liz Breadon (District 9) stepped forward this week with two serious measures for safer streets.

Their first measure, adopted unanimously by the City Council on July 22, recommits Boston to eliminating fatal and severe crashes by 2030. The resolution calls on the administration to pursue ambitious infrastructure projects that protect people walking, biking, riding transit, using mobility devices, and traveling with children.

Pepén and Breadon also introduced an ordinance requiring the City to report publicly on its street projects each year. Residents who currently have to navigate an opaque landscape—with no clear point of contact for updates and little communication from the Mayor’s Office—would be able to see which projects are active, planned, paused, or cancelled; when they are expected to be completed; how much has been spent; where the funding comes from; and why promised work has stalled. Anyone who has spent years attending meetings, only to receive no follow-up, knows how important a measure like this is.

We applaud Councilors Pepén and Breadon for their leadership, as well as the colleagues who joined them. BBSC now wants to see action from the Mayor’s Office, which is equipped with the actual power to move projects forward.

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