I think you vastly overestimate the city's competency with maintaining greenery. Greenery at face value is refreshing. Weeds are also green, and that's the type of green we'll be seeing after the first year. The feds won't pay for weedkiller once the interstate is decommisioned.
Easy - roll out some old Dome turf and call it a day.
proper landscape maintenance is expensive, especially to the extent that is being touted. Talking millions of dollars annually and I’m sure that is not being factored in. That’s why we’ll end up with weeds, dead grass, and sickly trees.
you could volunteer to help keep the city weed free, you seem to have a stray hair about it for some reason.
Volunteering isn’t a solution; it’s a band-aid. I’m not against weeds. I’m against the idea of medians that will eventually harbor these weeds unless there’s a guarantee that the feds will pay for upkeep
Actually no, it’s not. They made their decision. Now it’s about executing the grid plan using common sense and weedless initiatives. No point in debating the tunnel and commute times any further. Kind of like the pointless man vs zone debates.
The tunnel was a diversion. If you read the details about what it would entail, you would quickly conclude that it was not a serious option--just a Hail Mary by a few local special interests. The whole process is maybe 2 years behind where it should be because of their political shenanigans.
I had a couple of days of meetings there a while ago. I parked kitty corner to the hotel and walked a block to the main entrance. It worked out well for me...
With snow they have to do something. Medians overrun with weeds do not present a crisis. Show me a well-manicured median in the city and it will be the first. The city is facing an annual budget deficit. They will not allocate $3 million every year for this and I don't blame them.
Our clients are generally 65+
people over 65 can't park in a garage and walk a block?
so what you do is, you pull in to the parking garage that is 1/2 block from the hotel. you get a ticket from the thing and then you park. on your way out, you pay and exit the garage. if that is too complicated for your clientele than i would posit that the hotel syracuse wasnt the place for your event to start with.
This is my favorite thread on the board. Alternately entertaining and informative.
Is Erie Blvd outside of their wheelhouse? That's the closest analog I can come up with for BL81. Those medians are just fugly and attract panhandlers.
