>THE LOOK OF THE TOWN IS CHANGING FOR THE WORSE
“Is sports participation important for kids and their future?” is a red herring. Willingness to assault the fields’ countless neighbors all over town (and no, I do not live near any fields) with lights, noise, badly parked cars, and unruly participants, and acting as if that is par for the course, is callous and unforgivable.
NIMBY? The entire town is our back yard. Sure, the owners knew there were fields there when they bought their houses, but didn’t realize they were moving next to Yankee Stadium. And this appalling situation goes beyond even that.
THE LOOK OF THE TOWN IS CHANGING FOR THE WORSE because of the unacceptable clout of those who are not working for the greater good, as they claim. Merely driving around Citizens Park one night I was nearly blinded by the lights and gasped in shock. The poles are higher than the trees, the lamps are much too bright, and the whole setup is hideous 24 hours a day. Encountering the sudden glare after driving down a dark street may well cause traffic accidents. What about the waste of electricity when we’re about to have incandescent light removed from our lives?
What about blackouts, brownouts, surges? The whole thing is simply appalling. Why couldn’t just one field have been set up with lights and everyone invited to see how it looked? The answer would have been “Dreadful–get it out of there.” But no–hurry hurry, install them all and it’s too late. The town must stop accepting big donations (in this case, not nearly big enough to cover the tab) for things that are inherently bad and not generally wanted.
And when neighbors reasonably complain, they are ignored or insulted. How can things have come to this pass? Anybody who had anything to do with installing these lights and P.A. systems should be replaced. Learn who they are and VOTE in the spring.
