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From the Newsletter- April 2005 |
ENGLISH HERITAGE’S STREET CLUTTER AUDIT
I suppose it was asking too much to expect to receive the 560 copies of this clever little audit, that I asked for several times since last October. This was despite a personal request made at a meeting some of our Executive Committee had on February 25 at the Queens Square office. Amongst many other topics; profuse apologies were received and a promise to get the matter rectified. I have since received an apologetic letter with a promise of delivery ‘soon’.
I wish I could be selective in how my taxes are spent!
Yellow Signs
So many times has the Society been criticised by council officers or councillors for moaning, moaning, moaning! Well, if improvements took place as a result of the first justifiable moan, that would be the end of the story.
But as far as the Yellow signs are concerned - see many past Newsletters - the promise last year by the Clean and Green Board to tackle this plague seems to have had the opposite effect - there are even more of these irritating little yellow perils than before! To add insult to injury it seems that applicants for the signs can pay for an extra six months location!! So, combined with the spreading nightmare of street signs and other ‘scrap metal’ how anyone - even seasoned residents - can drive safely around Bristol is as mysterious as the Bermuda Triangle.
Doubtless no one from the Council will respond to these criticisms. But if they wish to find out the painful truth about how ‘illegible’ the city is, I suggest that a Councillor or a traffic engineer -- or both together preferably -- persuades a complete stranger to drive them from A to B across the city using signage only - not forgetting to take a compass, blankets, sandwiches, paracetamol, wet flannel . . . .
Clean and Green Board
Despite the comment above, we are pleased with the progress this committee continues to make. Our representative has been Elizabeth Watts Miller since last summer, and she has been enthusiastically participating in the vigorous efforts in trying to tackle the large range of issues uglifying Bristol.
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Alan Elkan
Convenor: Amenities & Trees Group
924 3775
email: alan@fortytwo88.demon.co.uk.
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