Worst Violation Yet:: Mass Ave.

Posted by John B. Kelly

Shouldn't this be an outrage?

Many, many people, including many apparently "normal" people felt compelled to walk in the street to get around this inaccessible sidewalk on Massachusetts Avenue between Columbus and Tremont.


Photo: James Kowalski, August 17, 2006

The above photograph was taken last Thursday, August 17.

Showing more speed than previously noted, Cicconi & Sons laid concrete the following day, but still provided no "temporary pedestrian passageway," as state building code requires.

I saw teenagers and elderly people in the street!


Photo: A nice gentleman from Kurdistan, August 18, 2006

Now which kind of access do contractors strive to maintain? Access for the people living in the buildings (which they of course should), but not access for people trying to travel by.

When teenagers on the way to school used the street instead of a snow-blocked sidewalk, and one was hit, Governor Romney fired the commissioner of the Department of Conservation and Recreation, and also fired a number of staff.

Who will Mayor Menino fire?