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Bad enough restaurants are taking over…
… sidewalks. Now beer gardens invading public parks.
Please explain why beer/food at the pond is a bad thing?
I think someone should do this every weekend in the Summer!
Trash, noise, crowds of people.
All the things one seeks to escape by being in nature.
Nature?
Pinebank? Nature?
Are you actually a sentient chipmunk and the idea of a patch of trees next to a softball field is nature since everything looks so big to you?
Do you ever get out of your car?
Or even roll down a window?
Is this in part about the
Is this in part about the commercialization of public space and the tension between the good for firms, customers and whatever vitality this provides the neighborhood and the fact that not everyone is served (taxes aside) by this commercialization of public space because of exclusion, noise and vice (not that beer swilling is a vice in Bostonia.)
Also, in a post lock, stock and barrel transfer of wealth world to the finance bros and the monopolizing and corporatization almost every firm and and the branding of almost every pursuit and activity making independent firms seem rare, does that make it all the more galling whether, or not this specific case is a mom and pop venture, or blood funnel adjacent concern?
@Frelmont
Yup.
If you are concerned about
If you are concerned about noise and pollution then blame the DCR for surrounding the pond with roads full of drivers blasting music and honking horns, at points mere feet away from the edge of the pond.
I do.
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The Greenway
Has had a summer beer garden for quite some time.
Pinebank is not on the main path around the pond - it's a sort of plateau up the John Hancock steps from the main pond walkway.
On the Common as well.
None of them are an asset or belong on parkland.
The Pinebank is an especially nice quiet spot for relaxing. It won’t be when it’s converted to a noisy beer garden party spot.
So you decide
So you decide what is an asset ? i think these are huge assets and will visit the one in JP both weekends. I am with the above commenter and I think this should be a year round thing
Yes, I do.
You’re welcome to your own opinion as well.
I don’t imagine you understand the need for or appreciate green space, however, and that these will be your first visits to an actual park.
you must be a blast at parties
Wow, so smart. It's funny because I run at the Pond and the Arboretum several times a week. You do not get to decide what is an asset. Just because you're an asshole doesn't mean people have to listen to you.
LOL
But yet you can’t resist reading my comments or responding to them with tired clichés.
I don't think theys from
I don't think theys from around here @Lee. :]
Ok Abe Simpson
This is great! Not to mix Simpson references, but I, for one, welcome our new restaurant and beer garden overlords.
The Biergarten at the Fresh
The Biergarten at the Fresh Pond Mall parking lot is now less troublesome this season when they unblocked the main exit route branch, which they had decided to block encouraging driving through spaces, or taking an out of the way travel path to get under the bridge and onto Terminal Rd.
Now if only they used concrete wheel stops in all the parking spaces to get people from driving through the spaces like uncivilized maniacs.
Cambridge can’t regulate traffic in the mall yet it is essentially (generously?) the only conduit for access to service roads, parkway and Cambridge city roads.
Do you own a map?
Only conduit? Try "cut through for special folk to speed through and not have to use the main roads". You can use the parkways, not the parking lots.
Ya. Word.
Ya. Word.
I think Lee is concerned that
I think Lee is concerned that Pinebank is going to turn onto Bostons Common with tents, and trash and drug use. And rightfully so.
Are you sure that isn't caused by Shakespeare?
Incidentally, at one time …
… the Pinebank had a theater.
And at one time ...
It was home to the Children's Museum. But then it moved and the city let the building decay until they could justify tearing it down.
You're right - it can be a nice place to relax. Wards Pond could be as well, if they'd put in a couple of benches.
The beer garden will only be there for a total of four days over two weeks, and not on Sundays, at least.
Sounds like a good way to drive off…
… Bald Eagles and other wildlife that make their homes by Jamaica Pond.
No more so than ...
The Honk practice jams that get held there.
For what it's worth, though, when I've seen eagles or hawks, they've been way on the other, Parkman, side of the pond (I did once see a heron catch a fish in the Pinebank side, but that was unusual, herons tend to gather on the Parkman or Perkins side). The wildlife you tend to see on the Pinebank side are turtles, but they don't seem to mind noise from up the hill.
I’d say neither is good for wildlife.
But a beer garden is going to cause a lot more noise for a longer period than a Honk jam. Much more light pollution and much more trash.
As far as turtles go, as intimately as you may know them, I’m not sure you’re qualified to gauge their reactions to disturbances in their habitat. Nor are they the only wildlife at Pinebank.