The New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester, Mark Hayward column
By Mark Hayward, The New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester | |
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It starts on the curve of the
I describe the sidewalk as lost because when I think of a sidewalk, I think of block after block of concrete that leads me somewhere. Forty feet takes me nowhere.
How did it get lost? My guess is it happened years ago. It was a cocksure glob of adolescent concrete, all wet behind the ears, and ran off as workers laid sidewalks nearby. It reached
About a month ago, Dumont was walking along the sidewalk. Like a lot of the sidewalks in this city (even the normal ones), it held a winter's worth of snow and ice -- melted, refrozen and walked on. It was slippery, bumpy and hard.
Dumont, who lives on
Dumont, who is 74, needed a CT brain scan, antibiotic ointment, gauze wrap and four sutures.
"Mainly, it makes me mad," Dumont said about the ordeal.
What upended Dumont on
Some homeowners and landlords -- the respectable ones -- do so. But many others figure it's the city's responsibility and wait for the city sidewalk plow. The plow makes it to residential areas about three or four days after a snowstorm, if you're lucky.
Of course, you'd expect that retail businesses would shovel sidewalks outside their property. Don't.
"The whole season, it was terrible here," said
"They don't shovel up here.
In a statement emailed to me,
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So who should shovel the lost sidewalk?Some of it does get shoveled. The 10 feet of sidewalk in front of the bus shelter gets cleared within a day after a snowstorm, said
Whitten said the
You can guess the runaround she has gotten.
Her alderman,
Long said he thinks the city should clear the
So I'll close with Dumont.
She lives on about
The city should force property owners to shovel their sidewalks, she said. As for the lost sidewalk? "
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