I'm firmly against the expansion for safety reasons

Unless you regularly cross from 66 Milton Road to the parking lot, you would not have a true understanding of the perils. Cars ignore the crosswalk, lights blinking. They exceed the speed limit. If a car stops, the other behind it just moves to its right, approaching the curb, and swings by, at speed. For a pedestrian, that's a blind spot. And, dangerous.

I had surgery January 6 and needed a walker. It was even more unsafe. One time, as I entered the stripe, with yellow lights blinking from the 66 Milton Road parking lot—I kept my eyes on a car leaving Blind Brook Lodge, the property, and making a left turn. Surely, the driver would see me, and stop? But I paused. It saved my life. There is data that says left-hand turns are the most challenging for drivers: they look left, then right and, without looking left again, gas it. This alone—the traffic that comes in and out with 125 people and deliveries, daily—makes it a challenging and unsafe crossing. And what else makes it unsafe? Dozens of cars who mistake that lot for RAC parking, and speed through it—making it unsafe for all of us.

Add in the buses parked in front of our building on both streets, often illegally, blocking our access to the stripes. Have you been on 66 Milton during a typical day? Are you aware of these issues? The lack of pedestrian safety? We live here. And, we want to be safe. More building? More cars? More buses? On a two-lane street? Who would even think of proposing this. Unless it were someone who does not live here.