#urban-maintenance

#urban-maintenance

“West Street is looking fabulous, it's great to see people out in the town centre enjoying themselves,” he said, noting that recent power-hosing works had made “a real impact” on cleanliness. “That's the standard we want to maintain,” he added. “I know it is not always easy, it is a challenge, particularly at weekends. Hopefully we are getting buy-in from business owners as well on that.”

I think it's something that we can just easily do as a community. I would really love to start a monthly cleanup where I come out with other people, because it's much easier to do a quick sweep than obviously what I've been doing over the past few weeks, which is painstaking.

The city is at a crossroads. Some areas of the town are 30, 35 years old and may need more attention than the newer areas. We have a dichotomy of needs in that we have to provide services to both the old and the new sides of town.

The only things that I have to memorialize my [child] are these ghost bikes. Hightman's father told Streetsblog that he has few reminders of his child, who used they/them pronouns, and called the ghost bike's removal heartbreaking and upsetting. There was also a ghost bike for Hightman in their native Virginia, but that was removed as well.