Globe's Interest in story stirs the pot

Posted by John B. Kelly

Boston Globe Statehouse reporter Andrea Estes will have an article in tomorrow's paper about access in the Fenway and around Ruggles, and the struggle of our little group to have our holiday party. It seems that the open letter that Eileen Brewster and I sent Mayor Menino and Governor Patrick caught the interest of the globe city desk, because it asked Estes on her way to work to check access around Symphony Plaza East at 334 Mass Ave. (I realized the letter wasn't specific on where the access problems were, but the story was powerful enough on its own.)

DCR told Estes that it would be out in the Fenway at 4 p.m., and indeed a Department of Corrections crew was out there. They chipped at the ice for a little while, threw down some salt, cleared about 50 feet of the path from my service road to the Westland Gates, but did nothing else.

So the path a still isn't clear. I still can't go that way.

Before DCR came, Lidia Alvarado went out and took a bunch of pictures, showing a variety of violators, from the Boston Symphony Orchestra to Cappy's pizza. The collection is at the Neighborhood Access Group Flickr site.