10 October, 2010

The confusing destruction of a bus shelter

Located boulevard Birgé (Angers city), this bus shelter has been severely damaged on the night of october 9th. Several back and side glass panels were smashed, leaving hundreds of small pieces scattered on the pavement and the street, endangering the zone fors drivers of cars and bicycles. In a visible effort to expand the breakage, the garbage can has been destroyed and its contents scattered below the shelter.

Who is going to pay for that? Probably not town hall because the company JCDecaux pays a fee to the city and will cover the costs of repairs by charging the advertisers who in turn will charge the producers and so till... the consumers. But, these are not the only damaged. The first victims are surely the users of that bus shelter who are certainly not wealthy persons.

Are they retired, workers of the factory nearby or school children? Probably they are modest households the authors of such inept act may be didn't want to punish? So why is the reason of such misconduct : drug abuses, overdrinking or simply disappointment, annoyance? The result is only damaging more citizens already in bad economic conditions. The destruction of something designed to give protection is a little bit indicative of the confusion of many people in Angers and elsewhere.

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