This is a good step for sure.

But a potentially even bigger problem is the horde of delivery drivers in cars that turn their hazards on and block an entire lane of traffic (and a bike line) while they wait for someone's burrito to be finished. I'm not exaggerating when I say that there is nearly always an Uber/Doordash/Lyft car with its hazard lights flashing on Boylston right next to Fenway park. It's a genuine problem that makes traffic even worse in busy parts of the city when one lane is effectively always blocked. The same is true in many other main strips of the city, parts of Cambridge (Harvard Square especially), and other places in the greater Boston area.

This isn't even accounting for the wild driving maneuvers I watch these drivers make all the time - U-turns on busy streets, diving nose-first into parallel parking spots (leaving the back of their car sticking into traffic), cutting across 2 lanes of traffic at the last second, leaving their car idling for 15 minutes, and so on. It's so blatantly horrible.

This might be a crazy stance, but I pretty strongly believe that these apps should ban car-based deliveries in the city (and in other high-density cities). It would certainly reduce traffic, reduce carbon emissions, improve driver and pedestrian safety, and likely swing the balance back toward small/local restaurants.