Happiness survey makes national tv

[kalimba21.livejournal.com]

This aired nationally last sunday evening on cbs. It's mostly in davis sq.

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7382352n&tag=strip

Comments

[ron_newman]

Joe Curtatone did not build the Community Path. It existed long before he became mayor. The part west of Davis Square opened a couple years after the Red Line did, in the mid-to-late 1980s. The part from Grove to Cedar streets opened during Mike Capuano's mayorship in the 90s.

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

As far as I remember, we had recycling as well, long before Sleazy Joe became mayor.

[ron_newman]

I can't remember anymore if curbside recycling started under Dorothy Kelly Gay or Mike Capuano, but this confirms that Davis Square had it in 2003, the year before Joe became mayor.

I do remember a time before curbside pickup, when you had to bring recyclables on Saturdays to either the DPW on Franey Road, or the former incinerator site in Brickbottom. Lots of cars waiting in long lines.

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

Was he involved in initiating the single-stream recycling or the extension of the bike path? Honestly, it sounds like CBS just simplified some of the examples of things he's done that can now be nit-picked.

It would have been funny if CBS included "Residents hated how easy it was to park, so he fixed that too"

[ron_newman]

Yes, single-stream recycling began last year in Ward 5 and will soon be extended to the rest of Somerville.

Mayor Joe has built one short new section of Community Path in Somerville Junction Park, between Woodbine and Central streets. An extension fron Cedar to Lowell street should begin construction within the next two years.

I'll also give him credit for bike lanes, especially on Somerville Avenue and Beacon Street (though the latter street desperately needs repaving). Maybe CBS doesn't know the difference between bike lanes and bike paths?

[beezy515.livejournal.com]

Yes, that definitely seemed like they simplified things to fit the allotted amount of time for their story.

[somertricky.livejournal.com]

We brought our old bin when we moved across Davis Square into our new gigs, in the fall of 1999. That bin was pretty beat up at that point, so at least a couple of years prior, at least?

Could curbside pickup have existed as early as the fall of 1992? We moved to town then as already hardcore recyclers, and I don't recall schlepping recyclables over to the DPW yard...

[josephineave.livejournal.com]

We definitely had the blue bins and curbside pickup when I moved here in January 1994.

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

"...long before Sleazy Joe became mayor."

Huh. I thought only the Right resorted to impotent name calling.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Ha! Not likely.

[rosiewoodboat.livejournal.com]

Indeed Sir, indeed. But it is just as pointless!

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

And I say that as a liberal who has been targeted by liberal prejudicial name-calling.

[ron_newman]

I generally like the Mayor and have repeatedly voted for him, but he shouldn't get credit on national TV for things done by predecessors.

[pierceheart.livejournal.com]

Nor should he be referred to as Sleazy. But I considered the source.

[pywaket.livejournal.com]

I consider his re-installation of Stan Koty in city government, the ways he's done things at traffic and parking and his very cozy relationships with Pats towing and developers quite sleazy. You are entitled to your opinion, and so am I.

[fangirl715.livejournal.com]

My parents saw this, and promptly called me up to ask me just how happy I am, on a scale of 1-10. I think I told them a 6...anyway, that seemed to be the only part of it they remembered, probably beacause it tickled their funny bones.