NOAH BIERMAN'S article on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway ("Not-so-green acres," Page A1, July 13) touches ever so lightly upon the major drawbacks. The Greenway is too narrow, hemmed in by traffic lanes on both sides, and interrupted more often than not by cross streets to ever amount to a place of refuge and repose akin to the great pedestrian boulevards of Paris or Barcelona.
Something is missing here. Maybe I'm getting old, as I remember the elevated highway that had become, in my lifetime, part of the urban fabric. Although it separated the city from the waterfront, it physically was connected. (If they had painted it and hung planters along its route, it might have survived another generation.)
Now we have a long, meandering void; not a vibrant vest-pocket park such as Post Office Square or the Waterfront Park, but a green wasteland.
Who wishes to be surrounded on both sides by three-lane surface highways?
The Champs-Elysées it is not.
CONSTANTINE L. TSOMIDES
Newton Upper Falls
The writer is principal and CEO of Tsomides Associates Architects Planners.
