Where do the folks that left their rubbish out on the street think it’s going to go?
Civic East Oxford
A catalogue of civic neglect in East Oxford
Category Archives: Obstructions
A hole in the road
Somehow a while ago a hole appeared in the concrete utilities cover belonging to some local telecoms provider. I informed the council about it after about a week and they, to be fair, responded quite quickly, and told the utility company about the hole, and the company concerned put a little plastic cordon around it. That was over a month ago. The cordon’s still there, it blew over the other day, I stood it back up. The hole’s still there. If you were to fall down it, you’d break your leg. It makes a nice obstacle for people in wheelchairs, on mobility scooters, or using a walking frame.
It’s taking a while for the owner of the cover to repair, so by the 24th November, and after someone thought it would be fun to nick the sand bags weighting-down the barrier, it looked like this:
A close up of the hole….
Temple Dental this morning
The Temple Street Dental Practice in Temple Street, East Oxford, is insistent on leaving polythene refuge sacks out on the street over the entire weekend. They say this is because the arrangement with the refuge collector is that they collect early on Monday morning. Not only do we have to put up with their bags full of mixed waste (recyclable materials, non-recyclable, food waste, and medical waste) but often a crafty fox, or other animal, such as a drunken student rampages the sacks leaving rubbish all over the pavement and road.
It’s a frequent occurrence. Here’s the results from last weekend (that time I bagged up their refuge):
On a good day it looks like this:
