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HOPKINTON, Mass. (AP) - The Boston Marathon is offering to put up fences near homes at the starting line to prevent runners from relieving themselves on lawns.
The Boston Athletic Association also will have about 30 additional portable toilets in place before Monday's race. Both measures are intended to address an annual complaint by residents of suburban Hopkinton — that runners use lawns and shrubs to answer nature's call before the 26.2-mile trek, rather than wait on long lines for the toilets.
"Every year, we want to get more proactive about this problem," race director Dave McGillivray told the MetroWest Daily News of Framingham.
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