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Talking Rubbish

caldrail

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Our local councillor, SP, is a man with a mission, and he's talking rubbish. Yes, I said rubbish. His five point plan on waste issues in our area is now posted through everybodies door - he means business. Well good luck SP. I know you mean well, but lets be honest, if you want to cure fly tipping what difference are adverts, thicker bags, and busibodies telling you to recycle a bottle going to do? Not a lot. Old mattresses, discarded clothes, and an endless supply of black plastic bags will still mysteriously appear overnight. You can only enforce a law if you catch the law-breakers. So if you can rustle up some civil servants to lurk in dark alleyways at night to catch fly-tippers, why couldn't you rustle up a few to catch the moron who disabled my car? Ooops... Too late.

 

New Library Update

They promised us a new library. A new purpose built custom designed enviroment for community learning. No really, I've seen the artists impressions. Actually, it didn't look too bad on the painting. But.. aaah... what exactly are those big green compost bins along the roofline? They weren't on the artists impression. Lets see... It could be a defensive ring of machinegun turrets to ward off new zealand pensioners who won't shut up.... It could be an early warning radar system to give advance notice of my arrival... Or is our new library the spearhead of an alien plot to study human beings? Or did someone forget to tell the artist just what an ugly building it was really going to be?

 

Old College Site Update

The demolition of my old college has begun. Typically for Swindon College, nothing seems to be happening yet. Wooah, hang on a minute... workmen spotted.... standing around talking.... deciding whose turn it is to make the tea... Hey, its a start isn't it?

 

Canal Project Update

A straw poll for the local paper asked 1,000 people whether they wanted a canal through Swindon. They said NO! Good grief, are these people serious? Where else are they going to leave their shopping trolleys?

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docoflove1974

Re the college:

 

When I was working on my bachelor's degree, there were these new plans for a new building on campus. Supposedly they hired this really hip and trendy architect to work with symbolic ideas for the design. By the time I finished my master's, the Social Sciences Building was up...and it is fugly. If you look from a bird's eye view, it's supposed to represent a geographical cross-section of California: mountain range (Coastal Range), valley (Central Valley), mountain range (Sierra Nevada). Whatever...perhaps if you're on acid. But once you see it on campus image 1 image 2, you understand why we the students called it the Death Star. It's hideously fugly. Now, granted UC Davis doesn't have a 'building uniform', where certain elements must be used in all buildings...so there is no congruency among the campus buildings. But still...this things is just wrong. Plain ass wrong.

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caldrail

In the case of the new Swindon Library, it isn't so much that the building is ugly (it fits into Swindon very neatly), its that the original artists impression looked quite classy and those carbuncles on the roof weren't depicted. Is this going to happen with the Old College site, due by be replaced with a pedestrian shopping mall? Or the burned out Locarno in Old Town, due to be turned into an italianate square? Or the Graville Street Car park redevlopment, a new pedestrian way linking the Brunel Center with the Old College site? Surel an artists impression should depict the finished article, not some rosey eyed vision of cultural bliss? You might argue they need to sell the design. Ok, I accept that, but if you fail to impress the buyers do they want you to build another?

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