UPDATE: I went by the BP Gas Station around 3 p.m. Friday, Aug. 29th and noticed the big ball of yellow tape was gone. I did notice that a straggling piece of tape was left behind.

Well, at least the bulk of it was cleaned up. It is up to the residents and the town government to ensure our town is kept clean and kept safe. This is done because we all should have pride in the way our town looks. To me, it just seems that the tape was hastily picked up “because we had better do it now.” It never should have gotten to this state in the first place. Thank you for the clean up.

I am sure many of you have seen this scene captured in the photo above if you  have been driving by the now closed BP Gas Station across from the Notch Store on Rt.68-70 in Cheshire.

Where did this yellow tape come from? It obviously came from the BP Gas Station which was cordoned off by the Town and the State Department of Environmental Protection when approximately 10,000 gallons of gasoline “leaked” into the soil around this gas station.

The tank was removed several weeks ago. A fence has been put up but there is still a hole where the tank or tanks used to be. There is a plywood sign with the scrawled words “closed” in front of the station.

If you remember, there was yellow tape cordoning off this area from the public. it says “caution.”

So, after the tank was removed and the area cleaned up where did the yellow tape go? You got it!! Right across the street to blow around in the wind. In fact, if you look closely at the photo, you can see the tape starting to intrude onto the roadway.

First of all, I wonder what SLOB just dumped the tape there in the first place. You could not wrap it up and either throw it away or re-use it? And even if it were vandalism, you mean to tell me, no one on our Police Department has seen this or anyone in Town Government or the Town Council? Come on!!! How lazy can you be???

I will tell you straight up, If I or any member of the public without the right “connections” or right last name did this, we would be getting a knock on our door no time flat from law enforcement.

Can you imagine if your neighbor had this tape around their property after doing construction and just “threw” it on your front lawn? No, you couldn’t imagine it now could you.

What if the tape was strewn across the people that run our town’ s lawn or property for that matter.

How would they like it. THIS IS AN EYESORE!!  GET RID OF IT NOW!!

Do the people who run this town have to be TOLD everything?? I.E.: the rusty barrels that sat for years at the old Huxley Garage until UTH had a photo of it. Then a few days later after the photo ran, the grass was cut and is still being cut, and the barrels removed?

I know people have been complaining about this gas station. Well, get the owner to restore the property, or condemn it and raze the building. Don’t just leave it.

As I have said time and time again: it is AMAZING what the authority in this town “SEES” and what they “DON’T SEE”

They supposedly “saw” my husband putting up a “no mall” sign on a telephone poll several months ago and actually had the police call our house to tell us.  They don’t see this mess in the photo above. What if the wind blows and it gets tangled in a vehicle or a bicyclist or motorcyclist for that matter and that person gets in a serious accident!!  Nope, they don’t see that but they “see” my husband allegedly not stopping at a stop sign at the corner of Carriage Drive and Academy Road/Rt. 68-70 at rush hour 5:30 p.m. Yeah, right.

Do you realize how much traffic is going down that road 45-50 mph around a blind curve on BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD at that time. And yes, you just sail right through–I DON’T THINK SO!!

Please, clean this up before there IS a serious accident from the tape blowing onto someones windshield or getting tangled in the spokes of a motorcycle or bicycle. THANK YOU!!!