This is interesting - shows how peoples' views vary. When I first came here we used to get all sorts of plants growing on the streets (nothing rare - centaury, ragwort, poppies &c) which attracted a lot of invertebrates. Most of us thought them very attractive and useful.
However, one political party took the same view that you do and now we have regular spraying (of glyphosate, I suppose) and bare streets (also bare patches in the gardens because they're not too careful). Some of us are pressing for the weed-killing to stop ... So, I would be happy with your situation but am sad about ours, which you, apparently would prefer .... It's a funny old world.
Ditto potholes in roads - I used to be furious to see a couple of men spending several days filling in little holes in the road - at great expense both financially and environmentally - when they could have been doing something more useful. As a cyclist, yes, I did have problems with potholes from time to time - just learned to ride more carefully! Obviously there are different grades of potholes and some are seriously bad but I do think that in most backstreets cars should not be travelling at more than 20mph and small holes in the tarmac are no problem. .... I have, nationally, been pleased to see that councils increasingly are not wasting money and energy smoothing out urban roads on an annual basis .... so, there we go, opposing views again!
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Originally Posted by Monkster  On a trip to town this week I noticed that there were more than the usual amounts of greenery growing out of the pavements, in front of peoples houses and even growing out of the tarmac on the roads!
Now, I tread these pavements all the time but this year everywhere is looking more overgrown and uncared for than ever.
I've also noticed that many mini-ponds are developing in every road I see, known to the untrained eye as 'pot holes'!
............I feel despair that my own town is looking so run down.
Is it all down to money, inadequate leaders, apathy or are they just plain useless??  |