His list of proposals include:
- Action to stop e-bikes and scooters being ridden on pavements
- An end to ‘street scars’, where gaps in street paving are replaced with tarmac
- A “galvanising” national goal to reduce the amount of litter
- Councils to sort dumping of fridges, mattresses and broken cars
- Action to stop phone boxes and street furniture being covered in graffiti
What a bastard /s.
It’s almost as if he’s annoyed by the total decimation of local services that used to be able to handle such things his party has brought about since 2009.
Local services is part of it, but I also think there’s a lack of communication around safe, considerate societal behaviour. For example: There used to be PSAs all over the TV, but there’s nothing now. We don’t need to go back to 70s one that traumatised kids but some common understanding of what’s accepted is missing.
Guess the death of broadcast media doesn’t help.
Admittedly, I don’t take the train or bus anywhere near as much as I used to, but when I did there were always poster adverts about being respectful towards other riders and staff. Have those gone away, or is it that there is another influence supplanting that messaging?
Perhaps phones being much more engaging that people actually spend a lot less time reading the PSAs and adverts around them?
In a weirdly similar way, I remember pre COVID there used to be so many more drivers that would be blasting music with their windows down that it rarely deserved a second thought. It’s much more rare to hear it nowadays, to the extent that when I do, it seems so much more obnoxious.
I think most applicable surface now just contain commercial adverts. Side effects of needing other revenue streams because investment is so bad? Maybe.