Wednesday, January 24, 2007

If you give a town a greenway...

If you give a town a greenway,
They're going to want to use it.

If they're going to use it,
They're going to want to use it year-round.

If they're going to use it year-round,
you're going to have to clear the snow off of it.

If you're going to clear the snow off of it,
for Pete's sake, clear the snow off of all of it!


As far as I can tell, the path was cleared only as far as the entrance to the Winona Lake Hotel condos, which is right across the street from this picture. So, what — it's only cleared so that Hotel residents can get to the Boathouse restaurant for lunch? The number of tracks walking off the other side of the street lend some credibility to this idea. Thing is, look at the tracks that go off into the snow — there are a lot of them. But they're not going towards the Village and it's shops, so they must not be worthwhile, eh?

OK, I'm done ranting for a few minutes.

2 comments:

jps said...

Greenway? Green it certainly is not, even aside from the snow :)

James

Andy said...

Good point. With the snow in winter, and the goose droppings in summer, I guess it averages out to a Beigeway...