Why Billie Tyler Hates Bricks -- will anyone listen?

Posted by Billie Tyler


MY STORY ON THE BRICKS
by Billie Tyler, who lives at Symphony Towers on Massachusetts Avenue, right around the corner from the bricks on Huntington Avenue. She moved into Symphony Towers about two years ago and experienced the new bricks firsthand. She uses a power wheelchair for mobility.


I shop a lot at Stop & Shop in Brigham Circle.

I go early in the mornings, as to miss the crowds. I don't mind going up on the bus -- it's quicker. but coming home I run into crowds of people going to work or school.

I would rather come home on my own but once I hit the bricks at Parker Street and Huntington Avenue my bladder won't hold! I even have trouble if I take the bus home and get off at Gainsborough Street -- in that short block my bladder starts working and sometimes I don't make it. So I go up Gainsborough to St. Botolph St. and home, long but safer.

What I would say to people coming to this event?

Help us get rid of this brick, please!

If the sidewalk were totally smooth?

It would be like living in another world.