Interesting article on reconnecting the broken links of Boston’s Emerald Necklace (“Stringing the Emerald Necklace back together,’’ Metro, April 16), but I wonder if anyone would be willing to take on that final, uncompleted portion of the necklace linking Franklin Park to Marine Park by way of Columbia Road (think of the Boston Harbor Islands as the clasp of the necklace). Called the Strandway (as opposed to the Riverway or the Arborway), the scheme runs through Dorchester from Blue Hill Avenue at Franklin Park all the way out along South Boston’s waterfront to Marine Park and Castle Island.

This plan is from 1897, and is held at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, the repository for the historical landscape design records of the Olmsted firm, preserved and cared for by the National Park Service.

Purists may balk, but wouldn’t it be wonderful to extend to other parts of Boston what has so greatly benefited the communities of Back Bay, Brookline, and Jamaica Plain?

Anthony Reed

Dorchester