To Town of Davidson officials:
We are keeping Sam Barger’s dog for a month. Walking him along the bike path, it has come to our attention that fellow dog walkers DO pick up dog poop in plastic bags BUT rather than carry the bags to the nearest receptacle, just deposit them along the bike path fence.
In addition, there is a continuing amount of plastic trash (bottles, cups) and paper goods that appear daily on the asphalt of the path as well as the grass borders. PLEASE can we have a waste container at Pat Knox’s driveway and another in the wider grass area at the roundabout and/or at the intersection of Davidson-Concord Road and Westmoreland Drive.
When the bike path was first proposed, we understood that a town employee would pick up trash along the route twice a week. Fiscal restraints in the town probably tossed that line item out a long time ago but PLEASE consider waste receptacles/trash cans at the indicated places ASAP. A bike path border of carefully tied plastic bags filled with dog poop is unacceptable to us.
Hugh and Brenda Barger
Concord Road
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I’d agree with Hugh and Brenda about the pet waste receptacle/bag dispenser along the jogging/bike path, although we’d need to put it into someone’s contract somewhere for pick-up and restocking. (Maybe, and I’m only speaking for myself here, we could build it into my [McConnell] neighborhood’s contract if the Town can’t pay for it.)
I’d suspect that the bottles, cans, and other trash that accumulates along that stretch of road are not thrown there by Davidsonians, so much as they are by drivers passing through town…not exclusively so, but it’s the first ‘non-town’ place where motorists think they can toss something unnoticed. It’s tragic that in this day and age, people still do that, but they do. (I also suspect that some of the litter is also inadvertently blown out of vehicles–particularly pick-ups–as they speed up coming out past McConnell or down from the roundabout at the crest of the hill.)
I’m glad Brenda and Hugh continue to ‘mind the store’ just past my neighborhood; their property (and the Knox’s) provide a lot of beauty and quiet; it’s also symbolic of our Town’s rural heritage. None of us should take that for granted; we wouldn’t litter, or leave dog waste bags, along Main Street, and we shouldn’t do it in their ‘front yards,’ either.