Longest. Yardwork. Ever.

The Washington Post is reporting that the Georgetown Waterfront Park will not open until 2010. Work has already been going on there for at least three years (to lay sod and sidewalks, as best as I can tell), and it's another two years? To build a park? While hundreds of people run, walk, and bike in vehicular anarchy on their way to the Capital Crescent or the towpath? Can't they at least open one of their fancy new sidewalks for pedestrian use? Especially on Friday evenings, when everyone from everywhere is descending on Georgetown for their night on the town, and the last thing on their mind is to look out for anyone else?

I've watched buildings be torn down, the site excavated, and a new building, complete with parking garage, built and leased out in less time than it has taken these rubes to lay some grass.