What a piece on the front page of the Dorchester Globe (they are on Morrisey Blvd) today! Here’s Dotriderblog’s letter to them. I probably went over the top so they won’t print it, but they should as how ridiculous are the suggestions being made by Milton residents? Ah I haven’t said it yet, but it is actually more RACIST than ridiculous… Of course there’s never been a NIMBY in Milton ever before, but boy it hurts to see how blatent and insensitive folks can be when they are afraid. Here’s about the only photo of anyone acting like a gangbanger that I’ve taken in Dorchester in almost two years… http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbike/4444335510/ If Milton is afraid of this, then they better move further away from Boston…
Dear Globe,
There’s no fooling those folks in Milton as they are onto Boston’s plot to export our street gang problem by installing a bike path along their side of the Neponset River. Certainly there are legions of gangbangers who can’t wait to jump on their Treks and terrorize the residents there. One would think the Milton police chief would have come out and accused Ed Davis of hatching the plan himself!
If it wasn’t so untrue and fear-based that proposition might be laughable. Of course those promoting the Neponset Bike Trail have heard it all before since National Grid’s predessor in owning the Dorchester Gas Tank had that segment stopped for years due to the threat of bicycling terrorists who might attack there after 9/11.
The evidence on the Neponset Bike Trail as it exists today shows that the biggest criminal activity has been graffitti which tends to be generated by taggers who come in from the suburbs. With that evidence, the folks on the Mattapan side should be against putting the bike trail through Milton as who knows how many taggers would come streaming in with the improved access?
How about some common sense and facts in the discussion about the viability of a bike path? The evidence shows the fears of increased crime to be opposite of the actual results with other bike paths around the country. Add to that the benefit of increased property values to trail abutters and any good Miltonite should be leading the movement to install the path through their neighborhood instead of using the canard of spreading urban crime as an argument against it.
Meanwhile we’re heading into week 8 of no Talbot Avenue completion…Hopefully the hoo hah over in JP will quiet down enough that we can get a Bright sign installed this week as well…Peddle on!
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