Sharon Durkin

My name is Sharon Durkin, District 8 City Councilor, and I'm the chair of the Boston City Council Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation.

I think it's important that, you know, we listen when we hear Teamsters and the Carmen Union, SEIU, and countless residents who feel blindsided by this.

Thank you so much, Carl.

Docket 1141 is adjourned.

My name is Sharon Durkin, District 8 City Councilor, and I'm the chair of the Boston City Council Committee on Planning, Development, and Transportation.

The goals for today's hearing is to gather information, hear from stakeholders, and better understand the regulatory landscape.

We must explore

I think it's important that, you know, we listen when we hear Teamsters and the Carmen Union, SEIU, and countless residents who feel blindsided by this.

Boston is a union town.

We're not any of those other cities.

I feel like for me in learning about this technology, I was very skeptical about the safety of it.

And, I mean, I've known people who have died in car crashes.

I know someone who died in the backseat of an Uber.

I don't think it was the Uber driver's fault, but...

I feel like as I learned more about the technology, I did take seriously the idea that there could be something safer about Waymo technology.

Is that something that you're curious about?

Did you know the bus in Boston is only $1.70?

That's amazing.

Yeah.

I was working for the T when they did fare raises, and one of my personal transit heroes, Laurel Padgett Seekins, fought really hard to keep the bus fares low.