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Citizen complaint of the day: Lights out in my painting of a neighborhood
By adamg on Sat, 11/03/2018 - 11:56pm
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about the street lights on Bowen Street in South Boston being out, but, OK, we admit we posted this because it's a cool photo that looks more like a painting, and that's just not something you see very often in 311 complaints.
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That is a cool photo.
Kinda seems like an empty movie set.
Wow
What a beautiful street.
We should make more like that.
If only the sidewalk on the
If only the sidewalk on the left was wide enough for a wheelchair or stroller.
Sidewalk
Just go on the street if it’s too narrow.
A woonerf!
Cars are allowed, but cars are guests!
Easy fix
No sidewalk needed if driving isn't allowed
They can cross the very narrow street
and use the other sidewalk. Or do what people have done in Boston's narrow streets for centuries and walk in them. That's what I did as a kid and still do if necessary today. See a car coming, move out of it's way. People back in the day rarely batted an eyelash at this local custom.
If narrow streets and sidewalks were that much of a serious issue for baby carriages Beacon Hill would have been demolished fue to violations of the ADA . FYI: My dad became paralyzed when I was 10. He had a wheelchair.
Do we adjust the sidewalk to meet modern building codes?
Or restrict access to emergency vehicles, deliveries, snow and trash removal?
Not being cute, just explaining the conundrum of building in and around neighborhoods designed before there were motor vehicles.
Remove the sidewalk for best access
A narrow street like this could be usable by all modes, but have protections for pedestrians if the sidewalks were removed and traffic calming measures were put in place. Narrow sidewalks on a narrow street are more of a hindrance for chair users than no sidewalk due to curbs.
I live in a town where many streets do not have sidewalks.
I'll take sidewalks any day over any "traffic calming measures".
You mean like the ones on
You mean like the ones on historic Beacon Hill and the famous North End?? (yeah, okay).
Thomas Hart Benton?
Is that you?!
SOUTHIE
The toughest part of Southie today is finding a parking space or a condo for under a million dollars.
Or what about
a million dollar condo with no parking?
It would be a better picture
It would be a better picture without that ugly lightpole.
Just around the corner...
...is the diner where the Nighthawks hang out.
Except they can never go home
No door on the diner.
Seriously
How can I get a better copy of this photo??
I'll frame it
I just went to the 311
I just went to the 311 website and downloaded the image.
https://311.boston.gov/reports/101002719342
Adam, I thought it was a painting...
Brings new veracity to the term picturesque, and more specifically, yes Neal, that does look like classic Thomas Hart Benton. Among american cities, I love how Boston has so many of these unusual, non-generic spaces. All the cookie-cutter autopolises and sprawlvilles are employing urban planners and landscape designers to recreate what we have here organically...and they more often than not wind up with Ye Olds Potemkin villages.