City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) says requiring third-party delivery companies to buy insurance for their deliverers isn't enough to reduce Boston road mayhem - he now wants an outright ban on the use of mopeds and e-bikes to shuttle food around the city.

Other councilors, however, say a ban like that would hit immigrant and minority drivers the hardest, and that the city should look at stepped up outreach and education to get the two-wheeled drivers to obey the rules of the road first.

The insurance requirement is mandated in an ordinance, approved in April, that has yet to even go into effect.

The council took no formal action today on Flynn's proposal to amend the new ordinance. Instead, Council President Ruthzee Louijeune sent it to the Committe

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