Sand trap (grr...)
Between the Science Museum and the Hatch Shell they've been working since last fall on a slowly-proceeding baseball field project (a seemingly horrendous waste of time and money). The construction has closed the river-side mixed-use path for over 6 months. It has also blown a pile of sand onto the Storrow-drive side path, which has been a hazard to bikes, rollerbladers and joggers all spring and summer. It's gotten to the point where it covers all but 6 inches of the sidewalk to an inch or two deep. It's bad enough that normal pedestrians will go out of their way to avoid it.
Every so often I will see a work crew or parks department crew (whatever the MDC now is) working along the esplanade, but they have never done anything about the sand trap. So, Friday, a crew was picking up trash right near the spot. I stop, and ask one of the young women working there if they have a broom or something that they could use to remove the sand. She was very pleasant and said yes, they could handle it. I suddenly felt much better about the parks department, and wondered why I hadn't stopped to ask before.
Four days later the sand trap is still there. Maybe, like the snow under the Harvard St. bridge, the only way to get needed public services is to do them myself. Maybe the wading pool a bit further down Storrow has a broom I can borrow...
Grrr (plus 1).
Every so often I will see a work crew or parks department crew (whatever the MDC now is) working along the esplanade, but they have never done anything about the sand trap. So, Friday, a crew was picking up trash right near the spot. I stop, and ask one of the young women working there if they have a broom or something that they could use to remove the sand. She was very pleasant and said yes, they could handle it. I suddenly felt much better about the parks department, and wondered why I hadn't stopped to ask before.
Four days later the sand trap is still there. Maybe, like the snow under the Harvard St. bridge, the only way to get needed public services is to do them myself. Maybe the wading pool a bit further down Storrow has a broom I can borrow...
Grrr (plus 1).