Keith Sansum1
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For the past week or so the tram shelter has suffered broken windows and last night i noticed this has increased to 4.
Why do vandals do this type of thing?
if it's boredom when i was young we had no dosh but never resulted in smashing things up
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Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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kieth,as i said on another thread,at least two [2] of those windows where broken before christmass.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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this tim briane you are correct
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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must have been very recently i checked last week and all seemed ok.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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no two been broken over a week
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Good on the Council for using laminated glass, but the thing never got the promised paint-job.
Do it up and make a feature of it. Give it some publicity in tandem with other efforts going on to get the town ship-shape for the summer. The fact of the Lottery money being used elsewhere to help complete the 'transformation' of the townsfolk becoming towns-people, from being plain victims of circumstance into masters (and mistresses) of their own destiny, or at least more in control of their environment.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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agree it should be a feature, doubt if it will even be repaired now with lack of funds at the council. it has to go somewhere where it will be seen as well as protected.
i proposed connaught park, someone else suggested the transport museum, maybe the cruise terminal could be an option?
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I have been in touch with Property Services about redecorating/refurbishing the tram-shelter many times - before many of the windows were broken.
No money, is the answer, but either it should be redecorated and repaired, or moved and I would prefer it to stay.
It really is the broken window syndrome - as in so many other cases.
Roger
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Roger
Neil Law, Roger May, Bobby Royston and I still have money in our pot, if the Priory Forum, wanted to take on the replacement of the glass as a project I'm sure we could help
Sheila
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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that would only mean that replacement windows would be broken, we have to face facts that good money is being thrown after bad.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Some time ago i posted on here rather than GIVE IN to vandals why don't we try to catch them?
A local resident was happy to put a camera in his house,
I with others was willing to go into the local schools to explain to children the implications of the damage
as well as upping the anti.
All rejected
no wonder people cant be bothered these days.
As for the shelter i still firmly believe we should keep the shelter where it is end of
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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If the shelter is moved, the sub-humans will just find something else in the vicinity to vandalise.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Peter we agree here
not just that why give in to vandals
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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we are giving in to vandals now by making it an "aunt sally", we can only save this part of our heritage my moving it somewhere safer.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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So every time we get hit by vandals we cave in
strange attitude, why not try to solve the problem by dealing with the vandals
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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Yes it would be nice if the shelter was to stay but I would prefer my council tax to be spent on other things than this repeated glass replacement saga, my vote goes for its removal to the Transport Museum.
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Public flogging in the market square for the culprits? Or should we adopt Cameron's hug-a-hoodie approach? Once we find out whodunit, of course.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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My vote is to do something positive with the vandals or at least try that route
at the moment little done in that direction
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Guest 767- Registered: 30 Aug 2012
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I think we are looking at two problems here, the shelter and the vandals. Firstly the shelter, I remember the days when it had bench seating and all it's window glass, as a Victorian tram shelter I would guess that it is fairly rare and so should be protected, after all they moved the horse trough! To protect the shelter it needs to be moved and the transport museum gets my vote.
Secondly the vandals. If the shelter stays it sould be covered by cctv and when filmed and caught those concerned should face the full weightof the law.
We need to save the shelter first and deal with the vandals afterwards.
