Forest Park paths have some major problems

From DNA Info:

Nature lovers and joggers who frequent Forest Park say that the sidewalk and the main path in the park are so rundown that they pose a safety hazard.

“It’s horrendous,” said Ed Wendell of the Woodhaven Residents' Block Association, who goes to the park regularly.

The cracks and holes in the sidewalk along the main path in the park are occasionally patched, but the path requires major repairs, residents said.

“Almost the entire thing needs to be replaced,” said Wendell. “It’s broken and it’s dangerous.”

Wendell said that recently he took “two nasty falls in Forest Park.”

Last year, he said, he tripped on a cracked sidewalk, and a few weeks ago, he slipped on loose gravel.

You gotta love this town. The health dept tells you to walk and bike for exercise, but the transportation dept lets you fall in a hole while you're doing it.

Unfair ticketing in Woodhaven

From The Forum:

Owners have faced forking over as much as $350 per ticket – once fines have accrued while an individual fights the ticket in court – for garbage problems that are not their fault, but rather stem from people who dump everything from mattresses to pieces of paper on others’ property, according to Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association President Ed Wendell and Woodhaven Business Improvement District Executive Director Maria Thomson. The two civic leaders said individuals – many of whom are likely living in illegally converted apartments where the landlords will not allow them to properly discard garbage in an effort to not draw attention to the sites – will often dump late at night or in the day’s earliest hours. Not long after people have shed their garbage, Wendell and Thomson said the city will ticket owners for such violations as improperly disposed garbage or not recycling – and then remove the garbage before the owners know any of this has transpired.