THE JULY 20 letter by the chairman and executive director of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy ("Conservancy seeks beauty, not power") only confirms the fear that the project has been botched. The so-called Greenway consists of a few postage stamps of green embedded in acres of paving stones, most horrendously in Chinatown, where a tiny garden is dwarfed by a concrete wasteland. Many of us had blamed the Turnpike Authority, which specializes in pavement, but now we learn that the Conservancy is equally clueless. Its leaders boast of "specialty lighting features, polished granite plazas, walkways of granite pavers, and ornate planting beds," hardly a design for inviting green space. Why not just call it the Rose Kennedy Graniteway?
STEVEN PINKER
Boston
