I agree! When I saw that they had tried to block this off with tape earlier this week (they expect us to go all the way back to Riverside Ave?) I could not imagine for a minute they would leave it like this all week!

Another demonstration of how pedestrian unfriendly Medford is.

Instead of fixing it, they left a backhoe to block the way. As Chuck correctly points out, there's no other way to safely walk through that area. https://seeclickfix.com/issues/3840341-construction-vehicle-blocking-sidewalk

After putting everyone's safety at peril for a week and especially last night when we were forced to do the limbo under heavy steel equipment, we finally have a new sidewalk. Not that any attempt was made to take the opportunity to regrade this to a safer slope. No signs or alternate paths were ever placed. This project had to violate so many codes. No doubt this is MassDot ignoring the well being of everyone in the area yet again.

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