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January 15, 2012
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January 15, 2012 at 11:42 PM
Ya gotta wonder whose the greater vandal – the hoodlums who put graffiti down or those dummies cleaning it up. Better still, those head honcho dummies who decided on the colour for the yellow brick road so that its become an irresistible temptation. Which dummy is supposed to supervise and make sure that there is some kind of quality control going on around the place. Should all be docked pay cos its sub standard work.
January 16, 2012 at 10:08 AM
In most cases its vandalism to lay this hideous yellow concrete it in the first place. Providing kilometres of this yellow blank canvas for spray can enthusiasts has to be a no no.
One blogger on this site a few days ago, said that they were sick of the uninspiring corporate uniformity that is being forced onto our parks.
This is a very good observation. And if you think about it, corporate uniformity isn’t just happening in our parks, it has creep into every corner of Glen Eira’s soul.
Maybe the moderator could explore this corporate or [corpirate] model for running our councils. Newton is a 100% die-hard corporate (MODERATORS: word deleted). And this is obvious in the running of the council, his style his arrogance and his anti-democratic out-comes are all hallmarks of his corporate disease.
Do we really even need a CEO, I for one could see Glen Eria functioning without a CEO. Are we shareholder Glen Eira Limited, or are we residents wanting a functioning sustainable community similar to that was bequeathed to us.
Can the corporate model built around securing profits for absentee shareholders run a community?
January 16, 2012 at 3:53 PM
Way better than the cheap-n-nasty black tar they have put through some parks and other areas which tree roots penetrate in months. To think they pay people big bucks to come up with this wasteful stupidity.
January 16, 2012 at 4:11 PM
Your a sick individual Smart Aleck. I was always taught not to blame the victim. If you are that Smart Mr Aleck tell us what the path should be constructed of, and what colour it should be.
January 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM
The only “sick” people are those who gave permission and decided upon concreting every available square inch of parkland. When the works were going on in Caulfield Park I spoke with one of the workmen and asked about the atrocious colour. His response was a laugh and then “don’t blame us – it’s council. We do as we’re told”. It was pretty clear that he also thought the design and colour were ridiculous.
You ask what colour and what materials. Anything but concrete. How about simple gravel that blends in with the surrounding grass. It’s softer for runners, and prams, bikes can negotiate very well. It’s also got the added safeguard that it forces cyclists to go at a reasonable speed – not like the veladrome speeds that are happening now because of the concrete. It’s dangerous and someone is really going to get hurt. The least they can do is put up speed limits and make sure the edges are smooth. Simple stuff, but not for Glen Eira. The insistence on concrete everywhere is wasteful and environmentally and aesthetically unsound.
January 16, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Um! “Concreting every available square inch of parkland”???? With all due respect it’s silly comments such as that which bear not the slightest relationship to the reality that lead the powers that be to write us off as a fringe minority who don’t reflect the majority view of how council runs the municipality.