RE “STATE’S cuts leave Greenway wanting’’ (Page A1, July 21): Someone should tell the CEO of the New England Aquarium that brown grass in dry July and sprigs growing between cobblestones are not a “tragedy.’’ A tragedy is when someone dies before his time.
The Globe gives too much coverage to the Rose Kennedy Greenway, which tends to take the public’s focus away from other parks and preserves throughout the city and state. The Greenway serves its essential quieting mission as it is, and no great harm will betide if fully beautifying it takes 50 years. To say that the Greenway has to be expensively transformed immediately into the gardens of Versailles or St. Petersburg during an economic downturn could be called the myopia of Narcissus, as well as poor public policy.
David A. Mittell Jr.,
Jamaica Plain 
