To wander around Aberdeen city centre you would think you had gone through a timeslip and found yourself in a post-apocalyptic scene after a nuclear Armageddon. Like Chernobyl.
Bushes, weeds and shrubs growing out of the roof and sides of buildings.
Union Street, Bridge Street, Crown Street.......
Everywhere!
Why is it that no one seems to maintain the outside of buildings anymore?
Why are there no laws to enforce that the exterior of buildings are kept clean and attractive?
The granite of Aberdeen can be beautiful but currently, .........it's a mess.
Why aren't the Council doing something about this?
It's pathetic that the only people cleaning up streets and buildings at the moment are the volunteer army from OurUnionSt. And well done to them. I take my hat off to you. But isn't this what the public pay their Council Tax for? Why are we relying on volunteers to clean up our city centre?
Are the Council so locked up in their LEZs , bus gates and cycling fanaticism that they simply can't be bothered to care anymore about how Aberdeen looks?
Have they ever surveyed the tourists that visit Aberdeen to see what they think of it? There's plenty of them getting on and off ships nowadays. I wonder what they make of it all?
Then again, if the Council can't be bothered to ask city centre businesses what they think of bus gates, I doubt they can be bothered to ask tourists about their visit to Aberdeen. And closing the Tourist Information Centre won't have helped either.
What a bloody mess our city centre looks.
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