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Ice removal, T style
By adamg on Sun, 02/18/2007 - 5:43pm
Boston requires property owners to clear the sidewalks in front of their property. Naturally, the law doesn't apply to public authorities, such as the MBTA, which maybe is why one entire side of Belgrade Avenue in Roslindale Square (from South Street to Corinth Street) is covered in ice - it's next to the T's Roslindale Village commuter-rail stop. They couldn't even be bothered to clear away the ice at the bus stop where seven different lines are supposed to pick up and discharge passengers (that's the retaining wall for the train station parking lot next to the sidewalk). Picture taken Sunday afternoon, several days after the nor'icester.
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Comments
Icestairs
You know, I wasn't even going to write on this topic, for fear of looking like a whiner, but you have provided the opening! Two or three days after the storm, the steps leading down to the Newton Centre stop from Braeland Road (the main entrance for inbound passengers) were so ice-covered that they represented a real hazard to anyone attempting them. While that problem persisted, the T had assigned two very pleasant gentlemen to help people buy Charlie Cards in the heated ticket machine booth. I wondered: Maybe one of those guys could have been chipping away at the ice instead? Or would that have been working out of job classification!?
Ice stairs part deux
The stairs and side walk were the same at the Bellevue commuter rail stop in Rosi. Myself and another woman had to help a senior walk on the sidewalk (each of us had one of her arms) and then down the stairs of death. There was no sand and zero attempt to de-ice the stairs. I guess this is what our rise in cost gets us.
Ice Bridge
Yes, also mucho kudos to the MBTA for cleaning up the bridge over the train tracks between Alewife and Fresh Pond! Great job! It looks like a small child walked over it and threw sand down at 20-foot intervals. Well, at least they tried.