Finger-Pointing Do-Nothings

Posted by John B. Kelly

Evening after evening I would swear to myself that I would immediately return home and file a complaint about this inaccessible sidewalk in the park across the street from where I live in The Fenway. I wrote about it a little bit recently, but just today filed the complaint with the access board.



Boston really is special, because of a thing called "jurisdiction." Whose jurisdiction is this sidewalk, which is apparently on land owned by the city of Boston, dug up by the city of Boston through its water and sewer commission (at least it looks that way, because the patch surrounds one of its utility covers), but administered by the State Department of Conservation and Recreation through its "Muddy River Reservation"?

I would think it would be the water and sewer commission, but we will see at some point. The point now is to file the complaint.

The location is hard to describe, because the main reference point is a road whose name almost no one knows. It is called Agassiz Road, and it is a one-way road that cuts through, or bisects, The Fens below the Victory Gardens and above the War Memorial.

And this patch of sidewalk is just below the intersection of Agassiz Road and Park drive