quasify

I almost didn’t mind Keyspan. When I would hear them jackhammering away in the morning I could take a perverse pleasure in knowing someone was doing real work. Also, I’ll give them that they managed to not blow up my building. The time they forklifted my car up the street to get at a manhole, making me think I had mistakenly parked in a ditch somewhere? In retrospect that was pretty funny.

But there has been a noticeable increase in disruptive activity throughout Allston since the merger with National Grid. If we need infrastructural improvements, then sure, ok (after all they’ve got to spend that 28% rate increase somewhere). But there ought to be a little more consideration about what tearing up streets does to the neighborhood. I get home today to find that they’re blocking off both sides of Parkvale all the way down to Brighton Ave from 7am to 5pm from now until June 13th. This is unreasonable in a neighborhood without off street parking. Further, putting up these signs today, after the construction has already started and the street itself was blocked in it’s entirely? The City of Boston requires a 48 hour lead time for a Street Occupancy Permit in residential neighborhoods. So National Grid, come on, give us a break. You can dig your holes, but don’t take a full month to do it, or at least give us one side at a time to park on.