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click on either collage, or any image in this posting, for a larger version. You can see the results of the City’s planning and oversight omissions for yourself with a quick look at the next two collages one shows bollards at Rivers Casino at Mohawk Harbor on the west side of the facility, and the other shows bollards along the east end and rear of the Casino complex. For my taste, if they had spawned at least a few snowman-shaped bollards, we would have been better off. They’ve permitted a bumper crop of bright yellow bollards to sprout along Mohawk Harbor. Sadly, it seems, weaponless and voiceless Snowmen have been appointed or hired to oversee design and implementation of Schenectady’s most important development of this Century.

The Sentries assigned to protect Schenectady from harmful outsiders on the day of the 1690 Schenectady Massacre instead went off to a Mill Lane pub for some brew, leaving behind snowmen and open stockade gates to greet French and Indian marauders from Canada.

In the opinion of many folks in Schenectady, parking areas and pedestrian walkways should not be this pedestrian. The bollards are, in addition, taller than the average bollard (which is 3.5 ft., and not 4′, 5′ and 6′, as at Mohawk Harbor), increasing their visual impact. Instead, there are, by my recent count, at least 180 bright yellow bollards (that is,15 dozen) surrounding Rivers Casino and detracting from its attractiveness. “They” - the Developer Galesi Group, Casino Owner Rush Street Gaming, the Planning Commission, Mayor Gary McCarthy and City Hall in general, Ray Gillen and Metroplex, and County government - could have and should have made this crucial project more attractive, to help bring in tourists and repeat business, and for the sake of residents who deserve a beautiful harbor district. Q: “Then, how the heck did all those yellow bollards get here?”

Q: “Weren’t they supposed to make Mohawk Harbor and the Casino a classy, attractive destination?” A: “That’s what they promised.” Q: “Why are there so many and why are they so tall?” A: “Only God, Ray Gillen, and maybe Mayor McCarthy, know”. Q: “What are all those big yellow things called, Son?” A: “Bollards, Mom.”

A Conversation We Might Have Over-Heard at Mohawk Harbor on Mother’s Day:

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