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Community Path to be repaved between Davis Sq. and Cedar St. Path will be closed to all pedestrian and bicycle traffic for two days during repaving.
On Tuesday, May 2, and Wednesday, May 3, 2017, a portion of the Somerville Community Path (Davis Square to Cedar St.) will be closed as city contractors repave this section of the path. During this work, this portion of the path will be closed for all users, and both pedestrians and cyclists are advised to use the detour route, Morrison Ave., which provides access to Highland Rd., Willow Ave., and Grove St., during construction. This portion of the Community Path is expected to close again, temporarily, within the next several weeks as lane markings will be painted at a later date once pavement has settled.
This work to improve the Path is funded by the residents of Somerville through the Community Preservation Act (CPA). With additional CPA funds, the city, in collaboration with the Friends of the Community Path, will also hire a design consultant to develop additional improvements for the Path. In 2018, these improvements will address drainage and retaining wall issues and will include repaving of the section of the Path from Buena Vista to the Cambridge line.
For more information about the Somerville Community Preservation Act, visit www.somervillema.gov/cpa.
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Let’s hope the city will be as interested in repaving and fixing the roads and sidewalks on our streets as well, many of which have been in dire need of repair for years.
Community Preservation should include the rest of the “Community”, not just the bicycle paths and parks.
Nice try, but your backhanded swipe at the Community Path is fully transparent. As the article states, these improvements are being funded by Community Preservation Act monies, which is partly what they are there for. General infrastructure maintenance funding comes from elsewhere. Please inform yourself better – or consider being honest about it – before spouting off.
Wayan,
I am informed well enough about what the Community Preservation Act is. I did not say that the Community Preservation Act itself should include the rest of the city, but that “Community Preservation” in general should, regardless of what monies are funding it.
It just seems that the City is too interested in keeping up certain parts of Somerville and not all of it, judging from how poorly maintained much of our roads and sidewalks are.
We are all entitled to “spout off” about where we live. Perhaps you shouldn’t be so quick to spout off yourself until you read exactly what is being said.
Linda, CPA dollars are distributed via an application process, if there are eligible projects you want to see, you should write up a proposal or work with someone who is.
You shouldn’t need to write up a proposal for this or other work to be done. It is one of the city’s main jobs to maintain the roads and sidewalks. They have clearly not been maintaining the path, or many of our roads or sidewalks, based on my own experiences walking the city. Our taxes should be paying for this ‘service’, we should not be paying an additional tax, nor be required to ‘write a proposal’. Will we next be asked to write a proposal to have our trash picked up?
Let’s face it, the community path gets way more traffic than 99% of the sidewalks in the city.
Maybe you should heed your own advice and read exactly what is being said yourself. My comment addressed your obvious personal agenda of not so subtly slamming the Community Path, nothing more. Scratch the linoleum all you like. You can’t cover it up.
HUH?? When did I ever say I was against the Community Path??
The path extension runs behind my street. I used to walk the path to Davis Square every day to work, too, way before the extension was created.
I’m not slamming the path just because I’m saying that there are other areas of Somerville that deserve upkeep, too. Having parks and paths is essential in a large city, but just focusing on their maintenance alone isn’t helping the city any more than maintaining one room of a house keeps the entire house in good shape.
The Community Path extension is fairly new, so there should be little need for maintenance at this point compared to some of the oldest areas of Somerville.
If there are funds being held aside to encourage upkeep of the Community Path and Somerville’s parks, then it would be nice if there were also funds held aside in the same way to make sure that the rest of the city gets as much incentive with regard to maintenance. You ask people who live on streets badly in need of repair if they would agree.
I don’t have a personal agenda or any opinion I need to “cover up”. If I wanted to slam the Community Path, I would simply do it. I wouldn’t cloak it in so-called “subtlety”.
The only agenda that seems to be here is one of trying to create an argument based on an assumption that just isn’t true.
I guess there are some folks who assume that no matter what you say, you are saying something else. You know what they say about why you shouldn’t assume.