Rink in Cabot Square raises eyebrows
Not everyone is happy with the city’s plan to put in a refrigerated skating rink in Cabot Square. Says here it’s “an effort to encourage harmonious cohabitation between residents in the area and the homeless people who regularly visit” and although I’m trying to imagine how this is supposed to work, it’s not coming into focus.
Tom H 08:32 on 2020-11-30 Permalink
I imagine it would be somewhat similar to the situation at Place Émilie-Gamelin, where they inserted the large’Jardin Gamelin’ bar/beer garden. The homeless population would be pushed off to one far corner of the space, which the city would probably prefer anyway because it makes it easier for surveillance. I find it to be no small accident that the particular corner homeless folks in Place Émilie-Gamelin were pushed to (the north-east corner) was the one nearest designated SPVM parking and furthest from the metro entrance. At Émilie-Gamelin, there is the grassy slope that was designed to be a ‘buffer’ area between the two groups, but often it just remains empty.