David Archer picked up a Zipcar in the North End. A city councilor wants youth workers to use the cars to get to crises. (Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan) Globe Staff Photo / David L. Ryan

Hip, urban car service might aid street workers

But some doubt Zipcars fit role

By Donovan Slack

Globe Staff / February 17, 2005

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They are dispatched to the scenes of gang shootings and stabbings and just about anywhere that teenage angst threatens to erupt into violence. The city sends street workers to pressure points all over the city, but how they get there is now up for discussion. (Full article: 799 words)