Lincoln's Log

The parking authority in town clearly is ratcheting up enforcement in search of more revenue. People who have lived in Old Greenwich for 15 years or longer are getting tickets for the first time. I saw this parking officer chalking up cars last week. I have never seen that before.

Also, the proposal to put meters in Byram, Cos Cob and Old Greenwich is a non-starter. The small businesses don’t want them. The residents don’t want them. There must be another way to save money.

AHA! There is. I saw this contractor ripping up the turf at Binney Park earlier this week. when I asked him what he was doing, he said he was re-turfing the grass because it was “bumpy.” No doubt some soccer parents have complained that the grass field is uneven. But how much are we spending to re-grass the field? And is this the way we want to spend tax dollars at a time when we have slashed $4 million out of the school budget?

I say let the kids play on bumpy grass. It’ll make them better players in the long run.

Finally, it was good to see the town get around to sweeping up the leaves. Didn’t it seem like forever that the leaves were on the roads clogging up traffic this year?

This picture of leaves dumped onto the parking spaces at Old Greenwich is particularly galling. I pay to park at the train station. Taking up three prime spaces with leaves is selfish and rude. Can’t the town get after those homeowners?

A frequent Lincoln’s Log reader alerted me to a sidewalk construction project in Riverside that she thought was another example of unwise spending at this time. So your intrepid reporter went down to the scene and snapped this shot. I’m actually willing to cut the town a little slack on this one. I remember walking to Eastern Middle School years ago when my son was a student and recalled that negotiating the road leading to the school on Hendrie Avenue was a little tricky, especially at night.