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Pg and e graffiti on new sidewalks!
också frågat...
Q. Please provide a detailed description of the location and size of the graffiti (e.g. "it is on the top right corner of the grey wall and is approximately 14")
A. On floor
A. On floor
11 Comments
Coco (Registered User)
Alun Whittaker (Registered User)
Right, a regular complaint of downtowners. Our number one and two problems are the ruinous condition of our streets, and rampant graffiti. How does City Hall address these problems? They send workers out weekly with armed spray cans of fluorescent paint to paint messages on our pavement and sidewalks with yet more graffiti. Yes, those streets that we propagandize our kids not to deface with spray can graffiti. Another case of: "Don't do as I do, do as I say!"
This paint, they claim, wears off quickly but: A) it doesn't, it lasts for months, B) the graffiti gets regularly replaced -- in places, two or three generations of the same message are visible, and C) insult to injury, no road repairs are ever performed on the marked up streets.
Stängt Rob C., Traffic Maintenance (Registered User)
The reason for markings is rarely road repair. There are numerous reasons for underground work.
Reopened Alun Whittaker (Registered User)
Yes, they are graffiti. Dictionary.com: "Graffiti: markings, as initials, slogans, or drawings, written, spray-painted, or sketched on a sidewalk, wall of a building or public restroom, or the like." You may believe that yours are necessary graffiti, and I'm sure that the gang members believe their graffiti is also informative, and necessary." Both are ugly, offensive, and unnecessary.
Normal, responsible people record this type of information by marking up a map, drawing a sketch, or taking a photograph. Only vandals and tom cats feel the need to leave their marks on street corners.
Stängt Rob C., Traffic Maintenance (Registered User)
Alun Whittaker (Registered User)
Rob C., Traffic Maintenance (Registered User)
Alun Whittaker (Registered User)
CCRC (Registered User)
Mills (Registered User)
Hi All, My intent was not to create a space here to troll one another (Alun, you started it, but Rob, there was no need to respond and further the issue), but to bring up the fact that I view these marks in my community to be as un-sightly as grafitti that would be illegal to do. There has to be a better way in this modern day of technology. I totally agree with CRCC and I am happy to write to the council or Public Works to tell them this in another way.
Thanks all.
Yours,
mills
Rob C., Traffic Maintenance (Registered User)
As for a better way, you may need to go beyond Vallejo to make a change. Here is the link to the best practices for underground markings. http://usanorth.org/calaw.pdf
This also has links to some of the laws associated with such.