Wolfman3 t1_j6zclej wrote on February 2, 2023 at 11:21 PM

Reply to comment by jojammin in Roadway will remain open at base of the Roland Water Tower by locker1313

How is it lame? The residents advocated for the road to stay open, and so it did.

If there was a "real park" and one was traveling west across Cold Spring or north up Roland, there would be no easy access to the community.

And so what that there wasn't a road there when Grandison Hoe owned it?

jojammin t1_j6zhqkk wrote on February 2, 2023 at 11:57 PM

False. The majority of residents in the surrounding neighborhoods voted for a park. We took a vote to close the roads and reviewed multiple plans for the park. A vocal minority of old people who didnt understand how to access a web page then put up a stink, said they were disenfranchised (there were signs everywhere saying how to vote online and at the park itself), called the process racist, got the mayor's ear and he reopened the road.

mixolydienne t1_j6zlcoc wrote on February 3, 2023 at 12:23 AM

Hmm, reminds me of what happened with the Monument Street cycle track...

imperaman t1_j6zjfk0 wrote on February 3, 2023 at 12:09 AM

>west across Cold Spring

What a tragedy, a driver may have to drive literally one more minute from the water tower to 40th St in order for everyone to have a public park.

>or north up Roland

Why would you travel north on Roland to enter Hoes Heights? That doesn't make any sense. You take 40th to Evans Chapel and go north from there.

>How is it lame? The residents advocated for the road to stay open, and so it did.

The residents are lame. Lame residents live in that neighborhood. They indicated that by sacrificing a park because it would make a TINY inconvenience to their lives. They confirmed it by wokewashing the preference.

KingBooRadley t1_j75ggld wrote on February 4, 2023 at 5:15 AM

Please explain what "woke" means in this context. I have no idea what idea you are trying to convey.