Photo of the Day, Boston Style: Part XII (2019)

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So this new bus line I'm taking dumps me out here at the parking lot under I-93 that apparently is now known as the Underground Art Park.... allllllrighty then! Even on this gloomy day, the pops of color made this cavern feel surprisingly upbeat.

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chrisbrat said:
so i've wondered about this for a while and a couple of friends have asked me -- i'm wondering if anyone on AB has any insight:

so they/we spend millions upon millions of dollars and interrupt traffic patterns for years in order to do a (very nice, by the way) refurb on the longfellow. it was both a structural and an aesthetic sprucing up and i think it looks quite nice.

why, when there are plenty of solutions available out there -- discreet, non-expensive -- didn't they do something to protect the tops of the "salt and pepper shakers" so that they aren't nearly immediately covered in tons of seagul and pigeon crap?

it just seems like such an easily preventable problem and, given the $$$ spent on the rest of the project, why not spring for what would amount to about $200 dollars worth of pigeon spikes?
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The 2 large fountains in St. Peter's Square in Rome have to be scrubbed regularly...the algae grows in abundance otherwise. I guess there's nothing wrong with actually budgeting money to maintain the Longfellow on a regular basis...which ought to include a good steam cleaning of the turrets. It's a long term investment, something Boston is not always known for until a building, fountain, park or monument is practically in peril of falling down.
 
fair enough, but they haven't been de-birdshitted yet and i doubt they ever will be until 40 years from now when the thing is falling down again and in need of another multi-million dollar refurb (as you alluded to).
 
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