If you were referring to the late senator, the photo was uploaded to the Flickr site back on July 25th. It wouldn't be a bad idea to dim the lights on the Zakim Bridge in his honor though.

Because it was taken late at night.

There is work to make that stretch of the river accessible. Take the park and playground on the Charlestown side. Perfect? Hardly, when you go there you can tell how much more work remains to be done, but better than what was there before, and it's a start.

Yes, I admit I thought the photo was cool because I'm easily distracted by shiny things, not because I was thinking about urban-development and land-use issues.

Unless the people you know walk on water, I wouldn't expect to see anyone in that picture.