Allston Rat City? More like Boston Rat City, with rat amusement parks, rat buffets and rat highways, disgusted residents tell City Council

Lexie Gross wears her feelings about rats on her shirt. A hearing led by City Councilor Ed Flynn today started with city officials talking up efforts to combat rats that include: Installation of sound sensors in North End, Chinatown and  South Boston sewers to track the squeakers as they head underground for the winter, installation of rodent-resistant trash dumpsters at some BHA developments, park work that includes new trash receptacles and better design to reduce rat hidey-holes, and ongoing efforts by 14 full-time rat fighters to kill and track rats and even more ISD inspectors to fine slob landlords and homeowners who leave out the stuff rats love to eat. Since Jan. 1, the city has responded to 6,018 rat complaints, issued 785 citations and treated 750 locations for rats - including using a device that injects rat burrows with carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide to suffocate them - and installed rodent-resistant trash receptacles across Chinatown and Mattapan Square.  But then Flynn