tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post2465983084334394120..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Meetings of Interest in the Week AheadCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-88325290163579930912018-10-28T14:23:45.230-04:002018-10-28T14:23:45.230-04:00While there's no accounting for tastes, and we...While there's no accounting for tastes, and we're a long way off from the days of the Roeblings, I'm not one to disparage the appearance of the existing Ferry Street Bridge. I especially love seeing it in paintings, and have enjoyed painting it (and repairing it) myself. <br /><br />Following the bridge's successive modifications we'll never know if it's now more or less attractive than the day it was built. Either way, and no insult to the existing bridge, it's not antitechnological to acknowledge that civil engineers are capable of producing some of the dreariest and/or ill-fitted bridges. <br /><br />Indeed, we've already placed and accepted aesthetic limits on the design simply by <br />choosing this or that engineering firm to stay within a fixed budget. Given the aesthetic shortcomings of the profession generally, and the City's statement two years ago that the purpose of the next bridge is purely functional, we can only hope the Creighton Manning engineers will show us examples of their previous bridge designs. <br /><br />It's more plausible, though, that like every other "information meeting" we've attended in Hudson the purpose of the gathering is to reveal the design we'll have shoved down our throats. <br /><br />If that's the case, as I predict, then the joke will be on our community of aesthetically-minded residents who've repeatedly proven themselves incapable and clueless regarding the fate and appearance of the local environment generally. <br />unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.com