Galeen Jones hates brick sidewalks

Posted by John B. Kelly

Galeen Jones has lived in the West Fens for over 20 years.

Galeen has been active from the start of our campaign against the Huntington Ave. bricks. At the January 3, 2005 Massachusetts Architectural Access Board hearing regarding Huntington Avenue, she testified

When I see bricks, I know I'm going to get dizzy and possibly incontinent.

Boston Herald writer Jack Meyers ("Disabled Bostonians seek ban on brick sidewalks," 1/4/05) reported

that the rattling she gets going over the recently installed bricks on Huntington Avenue sidewalks ``are the bumpiest'' she's ever felt.

On last year's access tour in the Fenway, Galeen said:

Huntington Avenue is like a four letter word to me.

This sums it up perfectly.

On her storyboard, she also wrote:

I don't believe Menino's priority is public safety. They see their priorities elsewhere.

I like to go fast when I'm in my wheelchair because I go so slow in my walker.

The vibration and the bumps make me dizzy and give me motion sickness.

The bricks can make me be incontinent.