So when is somebody going to get bonked in the head by one of the dead trees along the Charles?

By adamg on Sat, 08/01/2009 - 9:16pm

Mike Mennonno notes somebody was recently critically injured by a rotted-out tree limb that fell from a tree in Central Parks and that the DCR has been ignoring him for more than two years when he calls to complain about dead trees along the Charles River bike path. He posts photos from a copse of tree corpses:

... As I rode by this morning I realized there were actually three dead or mostly dead trees in the space of a few hundred yards along this well-traveled portion of the path near the new work-out station. I also noticed that each of the dead trees seemed strategically placed where a large overhanging dead limb could best fall on someone: over a park bench, above a water fountain on the main path, at the intersection of the main path and a pedestrian overpass. ...

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Meh, the Back Bay Fens has

By anon on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 10:35am.

Meh, the Back Bay Fens has had dead/rotting/missing trees with falling branches and dangerous sink holes for years. Hell we have had a burnt out missing bridge since 1961 and notorious invasive reeds that create an isolated areas for all manners of criminal activity.

Do you really think the city or state cares about public safety in parks? Hardly! The public got random. now heavily gang tagged, blue light telephones in random places when some thug's stray bullet hit the Governor's Office window. Other than that, public safety isn't a priority in the parks.

I've been hounding the DCR

By NotWhitey on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 11:31am.

I've been hounding the DCR (with whom I have had good relations in the past) for two and a half years to absolutely no avail

You mean you didn't get a call-back from the Governor? Shocking!

Cutting down a full-sized trees costs over $1000. When is the last time a dead tree branch attacked a taxpayer? Now balance the two.

Cost of cutting down a tree

By anon on Sun, 08/02/2009 - 5:40pm.

Cost of cutting down a tree > cost of retaining lawyers

Neglected tree branches still falling on joggers (and kills one)

By anon on Thu, 08/06/2009 - 1:01pm.

PHILADELPHIA (Aug. 6) -- A woman jogging in a Philadelphia park has been killed by a falling tree branch just days after a similar incident in New York's Central Park left a man comatose.
Police say it was a freak accident that killed the woman Wednesday evening in Fairmount Park, one of the biggest parks in the world.
Chief Inspector Scott Small says a 30-foot-long branch fell on the woman from 50 feet above. He says she was killed instantly.
Police say it's possible the unidentified woman didn't hear the branch breaking because she was wearing a portable music player, which was still playing when they arrived.
On July 29, a Manhattan computer engineer walking to work through Central Park was hit on the head by a 100-pound rotted tree branch. His mother said over the weekend he was getting better.