City councilors raise concern over teens riding shopping carts through South Boston

A pair of Boston metropolis councilors are hoping to stop the reckless use of buying carts in South Boston. 

The neighborhood has an ongoing downside with younger folks utilizing buying carts from Cease & Store to “careen by the streets,” Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty wrote in a letter to the grocery chain, which was additionally revealed in Caught in Southie. 

Flynn and Flaherty mentioned that they’ve acquired a number of complaints concerning the challenge from residents. Each younger adults leaving eating places and bars and youngsters have been seen rolling by the streets close to the Store & Cease at 713 E Broadway, they wrote. 

Youngsters using inside a buying cart not too long ago rode down the pedestrian ramp from the I Avenue aspect of the Tynan College in the direction of the car parking zone on East 4th St, in line with the councilors. They crashed right into a resident’s car, and the incident was caught on digicam after midnight. One other cart crashed into the identical resident’s automotive within the weeks earlier than this incident, they wrote. 

Flynn and Flaherty have been working with the Boston Police Division and Tynan College management to analyze the difficulty additional. They’ve additionally reached out to different departments in metropolis authorities to search out options, they wrote. 

“Within the curiosity of public security, private property and high quality of life points, I wish to respectfully request that Cease & Store work to deal with this matter by trying to keep their buying carts on-site, maybe by way of technological upgrades and an digital system, and stop them from being taken off premise,” they wrote within the letter. “This is a matter that requires a number of companions to work collectively. We ask that Cease & Store, as a important a part of the South Boston group, to please step up as a superb neighbor and be a part of the answer.”