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Citizen complaint of the day: Stop treating the Riverway like Allston

A disgusted Riverway resident complains about a mattress that's been sitting in front of 376 Riverway for weeks now:

When is the city going to collect this? Makes neighborhood look blighted - this isn't Allston.

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Is there some humor here that I am missing? Some parts of Boston have more trash than others. Ha Ha.

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I admit I laughed when I saw that, though, but it was because it's just so absurd, not out of any wink-wink-Allston-sucks vibe.

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Funny, I read "this isn't Allston" as "this isn't a neighborhood you usually neglect and ignore even when citizens are begging you to perform normal city services." Which is what the city does to Allston.

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Yet this points to a problem on both sides of the argument.

I see tons of TV sets and old computer monitors that are left uncollected around the city because the residents do not understand they are haz-mat requiring a special truck to pick it up. In Boston, there is no extra charge for this (some towns do charge). You just need to call it in and give them the address and a few days before your regular collection day.

Most residents fail to understand this and simply keep putting the same monitors out week after week and complain that it never gets collected. I have personally told numerous people how to do this and they respond, "well, I don't want to call city hall..." which is defeatist to the process. Granted that some residents in Boston have a deep-seated fear of anything that smacks of authority or other formal process.

For me, I call it in, it gets picked up, and life is beautiful. Of course some of my neighbors think I am charmed as a result, or have some "in" with the city. Geez.

By any stretch is there a moratorium on picking up old mattresses due to fear of bed bug infestation? Has the resident leaving the mattress on the sidewalk called the Dept of Sanitation to ask why it hasn't been picked up? Nice story but many unanswered questions.

Sidebar note... you may be interested to know that if you leave a washer, dryer, or AC out for collection (AC's need a special pick up too, not the others) there is a burgeoning junk metal business developing in the city and there are dealers cruising the streets from the night before collection, picking that stuff up for profit. You may find the large metal item left out the night before is gone in the morning.

Anything with steel, aluminum, or copper is desirable.

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That might be the funniest thing I've read all week.

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Your front door opens on a highway. Removing a mattress doesn't fix that.

Allston is peachy in comparison.

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..so concerned, move it.. jeesh

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So much for the Emerald Necklace crap.

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You seem to be confused about what it is.

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Real parks don't have highways running down them.

I'm pretty sure Olmsted never envisioned what would end up happening to his "parkways."

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The Riverway is as close to being in Allston, without being in Allston, as you can get.

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The Riverway adjoins the Fenway, the Longwood Medical Area, and Brookline. You could sort of claim that it also adjoins Mission Hill. It is nowhere near Allston.

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