Good news/bad news about the sidewalks
After many years of neglect, placing pedestrians in considerable danger, stubbed toes, sprained ankle and wrists, countless personal injury lawsuits, countless financial settlements, we are finally getting around to repairing our brick pavers sidewalks.
That it is shameful it took so long to fix our Coconut Grove sidewalks. Coral Gables, City of South Miami, Key Biscayne, Miami Beach or even Brickell would not have tolerated this dangerous and unsightly situation for all these many years.
How does that adage go about forgetting history and repeating the same mistake over again and hoping for better results? Perhaps installing thousands of new bricks with the potential of future breakage is not the best solution. Some communities such as Miami Beach, Coral Gables and Key Biscayne have wisely chosen to install coquina sidewalks which are concrete embedded with seashells. They are a significantly lower cost, seldom crack or place pedestrians in danger and require little maintenance.
Harry Gottlieb
Coconut Grove
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posted by Tom Falco at 4:00 AM
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5 Comments:
Where is the update for the mitigation on all the trees that were decimated?
They aren't all fixed yet. Any idea when that might be?
Trees are to blame for the situation. Need to be replaced for new ones.
Keep the old trees and replace the sidewalks AGAIN if necessay in 40 years from now. Grovites dont want some perfectly tamed and manicured fake-topia like some planned community out in west bumboof#@k. The Grove is already getting too gentri-fried as it is.
Center Grove has never - ever - looked this ugly, for so long. Might as well replace everything that still stands, while the cataclysm continues.
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