have now been winterized. I wondered how these ergonomically stupid, aesthetically putrid benches were going to work in the winter, what with the snow + all. I somehow thought they'd be carted away, with further expense, + tucked away until next summer. I was so wrong. Instead, they got four little striped Danger! Danger! bedsteads to protect our threatened knee caps.
Oh my + these ridiculous slabs are parked in the smack dab in the middle of the Plateau which houses the greatest number of artists in ALL of Canada. Artists who would have appreciated a shot at designing actually cool + functional benches for their neighbourhood. Hopefully with Project Montreal now in power in the Plateau, things will change...?
Oh + re: the Project Montreal. They're talking a lot of making new green spaces. Super idea, especially if that includes green spaces for people who walk their dogs 365 days a year. And hey, how about some garbage cans? How is the urban forest supposed to stay clean without garbage cans?
Aren't they hideous? Quebeckers are not so much too liberal as too much joie de vivrey to care about things like municipal governance.
Hardly any one even bothers voting, let alone giving a seconds thought as to how those ugly pieces of expensive doggy -- no, I won't insult anything to do with dogs --ugly pieces of well, ugly pieces got there. Who paid for them. Who ordered them, etc. Oh, don't get me started, I won't be able to sleep.
Posted by: edith | 11/30/2009 at 09:20 PM
Well tie me down and pelt me with bagels if you must, but that looks like an installation for public bondage. You Quebeckers are so liberal.
w
Posted by: w | 11/30/2009 at 06:51 PM