Does DRI Stand For Dumb Regrettable Ideas?

 

This afternoon around 2:00, I didn't see or hear any DRI activity at the first three intersections of Warren Street, nor anywhere on Front Street, all locations where Luizzi still has plenty of work to complete, mostly with the stone pavers (or whatever they are known as), which are about the dumbest and most unnecessary idea of all the "improvements" the project will bring us (and there are a few dumb and unnecessary ones!).  That's right, on a sunny and brutally hot Monday with no forecast of rain and with the DRI project past the deadline of June 30th, Luizzi had no workers in Hudson.  Not one person. Not one truck. One wonders where they were (Luizzi is based in Watervliet, wherever the hell that is) and if perhaps last week they just decided to give up on Hudson's west side and suffer the consequences... if Hudson City Hall even notices (or cares).

I took this picture a few days ago, but the barrel 
is still in the street.  Why?  What ADA ramp?

Are you missing a stone?

But I did notice something that appeared to be the result of recent Dumb Regrettable Ideas activity across from Promenade Park in the little one bench corner pocket park that always looks so unwelcoming, depressing and uninspiring, with no shade ever. 

If you leave stuff out, especially small heavy things, expect people, especially children, to mess with it. Possibly, of course, resulting in regrettable damage, injury or death.  You know how kids can be.