New Town bins must go
I REMEMBER the day they were unloading the horrible grey plastic planters in Town last year and asking the guys what they were for and responding that they look hideous. Well, eventually the message got through and they have mainly been removed after the outcry from the general population. Now I don't want anyone to think I am against recycling, far from it, as all our plastic goes through the dishwasher before we bag it for collection. Not sure how environmentally friendly this all is, but her indoors has taken this task under her jurisdiction and that is the way it will be done. But have you seen what they have done in Town with all the new recycling bins scattered all over the place?
Who on earth has agreed this? St Peter Port is a very old and attractive town but is being eroded by a number of recent initiatives with road markings and signage and other very tacky bits of street furniture but these new bins, which I assume are to ensure among others that cruise ship passengers have somewhere to dump their rubbish, are truly truly hideous.
Can we have yet another campaign to kick the administration to remove them, preferably recycle them and if it is thought really necessary to install something less intrusive to the eye and more in keeping with a town built some hundreds of years ago?
On another matter, I was in Mikanos two weeks ago and what comes bowling into the harbour but one of the old Condor cats. OK, it was not full of cars but it turned round in less than 15 minutes, a very slick operation and not a yellow jacket in sight.
Something to learn there, Condor.
G. M. OLDROYD,
St Martin's.
