To the Editor:
Even though I have lived in Manhattan for over a half a century, I still observe the “rule of the road” that I learned growing up in rural upstate New York some 70-odd years ago: “If you are walking on the road, walk to the left, facing the on-coming traffic.”
It seems, though, that most of the folks who take a Hardy Boat from Shaw’s Wharf down in New Harbor don’t know or disregard that rule. Every day dozens who park up in the old ball field (now Hardy’s parking lot) walk down to the wharf along the right side of Route 32, making it dangerous for themselves and tricky for the drivers heading the same way.
Might someone suggest to the Hardy Boat people that they post that “rule of the road” at the window where folks pay their parking fee and have their parking attendants stress that age-old safety advice?
