I want to thank and congratulate the City of Hayward for a recently installed sidewalk. The rather long sidewalk was poured into place along Industrial Boulevard, between Hesperian Boulevard and Tennyson Road.
Nobody uses it.
And by “nobody” I mean very few people ever walked beside that stretch of road prior to the pour—and very few people will need to walk there now. But the minority of people who do walk along Industrial Boulevard deserve a sidewalk—and that is why I want to thank the city.
I want to thank them for installing something for the people, despite our numbers being low. That auto mechanic, that checkout clerk, that maid, that EMT, that student, that sheet metal fabricator, that grandparent with a stroller: they will not have to walk in the dirt, the bio-waste, the glass and the shards.
So many times, a city will put up these imagined barriers of “worth it” and nothing will make the cut. Not enough humans will use that thing…to deserve that humanity.
Nobody is going to use your new sidewalk, Hayward. From all of us nobodies that will…thank you.
Andrew Cavette
Fremont
