[Note: Images from this story and more are available on Picasa Web Albums. Check out these one's of the storm itself. Thumbnails will remain.]
As promised, I went out early Monday morning to document the pedestrian situation in the high-pedestrian traffic area on East Ave. Local people walk to this plaza for services, and many, many kids walk to Shea high school.
Another attempt at photo-journalism:
- This is the sidewalk looking up East Ave toward Shea High School.
- Kids. School. Cars. Danger.
- Pedestrian-eye view.
- No caption needed.
- A new perspective on the bus stop: looking down.
- The sidewalk on East Ave headed towards downtown. The pile I’m standing on is a good 4-ft, and the pile on the left is over my head.
- This particular pile overhangs the curb by about 2 feet. It’s just at the split of East Ave and George St. [Note: this is NOT the East Ave Cafe's snow pile.]
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Don’t you wish that people were writing that we’re Chicken Littles and nattering naybobs going on and on about something isn’t really that important?
I guess nobody thinks we’re over-reacting now.
I live downtown and for the past week, my dog has been vacationing in the ‘burbs with family because I have nowhere to walk him!
Man, I want my dog back.
Ugh, I could go on and on with a rant concurring with everything about the snow and the poor handling- esp the pictures, as I live in that neighborhood. My mother in-law lives in Barrington and comes now and again to take care of my daughter and was blown away when she saw the sidewalks and streets and shocked that school was on that Monday. (Alas- Barrington and Pawtucket are economic worlds apart)
We battled the storm and cleared the snow 3xs from the sidewalk in front of our house- the plows came once. We live on an awful hill and heard the cars spinning tires all night.
Have you forwarded the picts to the city??
Amy, I know at least one person inside City gov is a regular reader. Plus, they have to come through the city to get to City Hall, and they have eyes.
As Holmes told Watson, “You see, but you do not observe.” Or, in this case, do not care.
It’s frickin’ East Ave. George St over the highway. Big intersections. These are the most traveled streets this side of the river.
But I have to comment on the deplorable condition of some of the side streets. I was on a block of Belmont that is an irregular pattern of ice 6 inches thick. All around the back streets off Pawtucket Ave, East Ave, Pleasant. I guess everybody’s hoping for a thaw this weekend.
Melissa, I saw on your blog that you go to the Gano St dog park. What’s the Pawtucket dog park scene, non-existent? I’d guess so, if you go down to Gano. Definitely something to think about. I like the small dog parks in Manhattan. That’s easier to do in a dense environment like Pawt.
And a doggy doo shout out to the great independent space on Propect Ave in BKLN, under the highway ramp: The Poopy Palace. Late at night, crack o’ dawn, always sumpin goin on.
Frymaster: when Pleasant View Weed & Seed was active (no longer, as the five year grant cycle ended), there was some idle discussion about turning some green space into a puppy park, and some VERY vociferous dissention!
So, as far as I know, the doggie park situation is non-existent. I wonder about the interest in having one.