Today,
molovinsky leaves downtown Hamilton Street, and travels twenty blocks west to Cedar Park. As an advocate for the traditional park system, I have been waging a war against the riparian buffers, which make our magnificent parks an unsightly mess. In Allentown, because the storm runoff systems are piped directly into the park streams, these token buffers are just a useless, unsightly insult. This hot summer, this insult is added to injury, because Cedar Beach Pool is closed. Along the entire length of Cedar Park, there is not one area cleared of high weeds. You would think that out of a mile of creek side, we could mow the grass for at least fifty feet, so that some children might enjoy the stream, as generations have in the past.
photo by molovinsky
above reprinted from July 29 of 2015
UPDATE JUNE 10, 2021: I haven't made much progress in my park battle against the weed wall. There is now a very small area on either side of the creek by the wooden cross over bridge, just west of the Rose Garden, where a mother with children can access the creek...There should be more such spots. The park system still struggles to find lifeguards to man our swimming pools. I still speak out on such issues.
It's a damn shame ... Besides this ,WHAT ABOUT the beautiful bridge in LEHIGH PARKWAY . YOU CANNOT GO THROUGH THE PARKWAY FOR YEARS . DOES ANYONE HAVE A PICTURE OF BUMPBER TO BUMPER TRAFFIC GOING THROUGH THE PARKWAY, OVER THE BRIDGE, FROM DECADES AGO ! IT WAS GREAT . GROOVIN, ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON !
ReplyDeleteEnvironment kooks are ruining the country. Yes, the weed wall is horrible to look at, and has virtually eliminated miles of fishable spots.
ReplyDeleteConsidering that in conjunction with the reeds lining our parkway creeks, City Council, in their less-than-infinite-wisdom, made it illegal to walk or swim in any of the creeks within the city limits. The parks are owned by the citizens of this city, not by city council.
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