City council for discussing traffic safety after the 5-year-old was killed by bus

The Boston city councilors once again had problems with the safety of pedestrians on Thursday, after 5-year-old Lens Arthur Joseph was fatally hit by a school bus in Hyde Park on Monday.

“In the hearts of many residents in my district, the conversation about the safety of transport security and the safety of pedestrians has been very strong in the head since the tragic death of lens,” said city councilor Enrique Pepen, the Hyde Park. “And we all know that the examination has not yet been completed and tries to achieve the special features of what happened, but we all know that it was a vehicle, a school bus and a child.”

Lens Arthur Joseph, kindergarten teacher at the Up Academy in Dorchester, was hit by a school bus around 2:45 p.m. near the 107 Washington St. in Hyde Park. The boy was taken to Boston Children's Hospital, where he died.

An investigation of the accident continues, and the police in Boston and the Suffolk office stated that they have no new updates or charges on Thursday.

The city councilors Pepen and Benjamin Weber sponsored a hearing order on Thursday to discuss the safety of roads. Pepen lifted several topics, including “more cross -streets, stop signs, speed houses, cross guards and everything the drivers slow”.

“There is really no answer to all of this,” said Pepen. “We have to look at this on a holistic lens. So I strongly ask the administration to take this seriously and act faster than just a hearing.”

City Councilor Sharon Durkan, chairman of the planning, development and transport committee, found that the question of speed hump and pedestrian security four times on the

The family of Lens Arthur Joseph has set up a Gofundme campaign after “overwhelming public relations work and the desired support of the community nearby and far” to help with this tragedy.

At the campaign position, the boy Ricardo Joseph wrote that the lens at only 5 years “had so many great dreams for themselves and a imagination over his years”.

“At the age of only 3, the lens could say with confidence that I would like to be a pilot,” wrote Joseph. “At the age of 5, the vision had changed and he told someone who would listen that I would like to become a police officer. The smile 'smile has lit up every room in which he was, and his energy was unsurpassed.

The kindergarten teacher liked to ran outside, played with his siblings and cousins, watched planes fly and saw fast cars.

“Objective was a beautiful, curious and intelligent boy who took us too early,” wrote Joseph.
… “If we mourn and put this heartbreaking new reality, we would like to expand our appreciation for the generosity and compassion, which is shown by everyone that is also affected by the tragic loss of our loving lens.”