Carl Zehr Square renovations

[dtkvictim]

We haven't been able to have nice things for a long time. Nice things get destroyed be the idiots roaming the city. That said: I have never loved naming anything after anyone. I have always thought of it was wrong. Perhaps I am not the only one -- but my guess this was done so we can't have nice things, and not as a message of any sort.

When they rebuilt the IHT, they put in attractive wooden benches. It wasn't long before they were vandalized by spray painters. Removing the paint also removed the finish, ruining the look of the benches. They had to replace them with easier to repaint black metal ones.

I think most of the benches are still wooden ones, no? The ones that sometimes have "bike holders".

I once saw a near-naked man sanding all of the paint off of the bridge at IHT/Henry Sturm Greenway, which I assume is there to help prevent corrosion.

And just north of there by the train tracks, I'm pretty sure someone cut down one of the light posts on the trail. I heard sawing noises, and a woman leaving from there was on the phone (presumably with the police) asking to have someone sent out. I decided to walk a different direction, but the light post was knocked over and cleanly cut next time I went through.