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Shoddy sidewalk grate$ on nerves - Hub runs up $479G Huntington Ave. fine |
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Written by Marie Szaniszlo
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Boston’s priciest sidewalk just got more expensive, putting taxpayers nearly $500,000 in the hole as the city continues to defy a court order to make the Huntington Avenue walkway handicapped accessible.
“I’m speechless that no one in the administration or the City Council has done anything,” said John B. Kelly, who uses a wheelchair and heads the Neighborhood Access Group. “It says to me the rule of law doesn’t enjoy much respect in this city.”
Last August, the Herald disclosed that the state Department of Public Safety’s Architectural Access Board had been fining the city $500 a day since November 2005 for failing to repair an uneven, sloping stretch of brick on Huntington Avenue from Gainsborough Street to Massachusetts Avenue. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view/2008_07_04_Shoddy_sidewalk_grate |
