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October 4, 2005
Language test
Do you respect public property?
What happens if you have a new open space? Some say that vandals and other inconsiderate people will wreck it - whether it is a bench, a park or garden, a grass verge, a bus shelter or whatever.
Perhaps that's because people don't respect the idea of public property - its not mine, its not yours, but it is ours - and treat it accordingly. But people do look out for the state of the neighbourhoods, and can keep an eye on things, reporting street lighting faults, picking up litter (mainly dropped by school students and from cars).
Our local Council has even carried out a 'ward audit' for Bishopthorpe, and 'issues picked up during the survey passed to the relevant departments' says its newsletter.
Can we have a copy of the audit too?
Anyway, this notion of caring for public space is something that is taken seriously, and here is a fine example of it taken in a park in France. Here, an old man comtemplated a pigeon, a young mum pushed her child around in a buggy, four men repaired a wall and worked on the planting, and a teacher took her class in to show them the plants.
Roughly translated this says 'keep your dogs on a lead'.
Posted by bishopthorpe at October 4, 2005 4:30 PM
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