"On the pavements : the plague..".

A walk along the trolley line in Angers down town makes notice that the pavements are already completely mudged by a plague of cigarette butts, chewing gum spits, dog excrements even if these urban equipments were laid only a few month ago. The case raises several problems whom the first is the lack of respect for the architectural design of the construction and, moreover, for the work people achieved in difficult conditions because the weight of the materials and the special postures they had all days long.

But, this fact reveals too the real insensibility the inhabitants have to ecological (and economical) necessities in spite of the stance they exclaim in the polls. How long time will nature (wind, rain, snow, ice, heat) need to erase these ugly marks ? And how much it will cost to the city to do it with men, machines and detergents?

In addition, the inhabitants seem, one by one, relatively, unconscious of the image of the city they contribute to damage. Angers is, like many french towns in comparison of others in europeans countries, quite dirty. It's probably the result of a lack of education inhabitants (as the French as a whole) have for public assets whom they will have nevertheless to finance the maintenance, among other things, in the (difficult) years to come.

The same day this article was published, the Angers medias announced the purchase by the city of a lorry dedicated to clean these pollutions.