Beautiful park was left like a landfill site

[GlasgowMan]

Beautiful park was left like a landfill site
http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5055029.html

THIS was the shocking state of a top Glasgow park after one of the hottest days of the year.
Joggers, dog walkers and people on their way to work met a sea of rubbish strewn across Kelvingrove Park.
Parts of the park opposite the city's top tourist attraction – the refurbished Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum – looked like a landfill site with broken bottles, drink cans and litter and overflowing rubbish bins.
Park users and politicians condemned council chiefs for not sending in bigger hit squads to clean up the mess as people flocked to the park in sizzling temperatures on Wednesday.
It is an offence to drink in public parks and warning signs are clearly displayed on all the entrances at Kelvingrove.
Yet picnickers were clearly flouting the rules with empty beer cans and wine bottles making up much of the rubbish.
Elaine Sneddon, 43, a marketing manager from Kelvinside, visited the park with her two children Gio, 5, and Elena, 2 and was one of many appalled by the amount of rubbish.
She said: "It's disgraceful, I think tourists would be quite surprised if they were visiting the museum and came into the park.
"If you've got young children and they are running around tripping on glass it could be very dangerous."
"People are not supposed to drink alcohol but how do you police that without causing a riot?"
"You go overseas and you see parks there which are are well kept.
"It could be much better kept and they should clean it up earlier, but people should also take more responsibility."
Deborah Ritchie, 35, of Hillhead, regularly goes jogging in Kelvingrove and was astonished by the scene yesterday.
She said: "It's disgusting. The council should have people patrolling all the time and they should be issuing on-the-spot fines for littering.
The council obviously doesn't have enough workers and is not doing enough litter patrols.
"It can't cope with the volume of litter."
Mark McLaren, 32, a graphic designer of Kelvinbridge, said: "There's no real excuse for the park being left like that.
"People shouldn't have to walk through that amount of rubbish."
And drama student Isaac Closs, 19 of Anniesland, added: "The people creating the rubbish should take more responsibility for their own litter."
Nationalist MSP Sandra White called for more action from the council.
She said: "Glasgow is unfortunately the litter capital of Europe and it doesn't do us any good.
"I do think the council should have more people in the parks and streets and should fine people for dropping litter."
"You can't condone dropping litter, but the council has got to do more.
Bins are overflowing and are being left for as long as 48 hours before they are emptied."
MSP Pauline McNeill said: "The parks are going to be full of people and you have to make provision for that.
"But there's really got to be a 50/50 responsibility between the council and park users."
The Kelvin MSP added: "The crowds must have been enjoying the weather, but there should surely have been a quicker clear-up."
In the two main police beats which cover Kelvingrove there were just 26 public drinking offences recorded in 2005/06, as well as five incidents of people being drunk and incapable.

Publication date 21/07/06

[Jimbob]

That's shocking, You know the orange march a couple of days ago. decided to come to Glasgow even though the march was on becuase the weather was great, but the city was the dirtiest I've ever seen it! people were actually kicking it as they walked, and then going to Glasgow Green the whole park was a mess!! cider bottles everywhere.

[Jack Rabbit Slim]

This ties in directly with the 'Poor state of Glasgow cleanliness' thread (probably should have been posted in there really).

Why is this kind of public littering so prevelant in Glasgow?? That comment from Nationalist MSP Sandra White that "Glasgow is unfortunately the litter capital of Europe" really shocked me! I have heard a lot of stereotypes and jokes about Glasgow's cleanliness over the years, but I thought it was probably all false mutterings that no longer applied to the city, but from what I've read in these kind of hreads and the comments from other forumers, I think there is actually quite a lot of truth in what I've heard.

Every major city or town in the world has litter issues to some degree or another, but it is not usually a major cause for concern, as on the whole people generally don't want to mess up these nice areas, and there are always plenty of clean-up initiatives to sort it out if there is a problem. But Glasgow seems to have had this problem for quite some time now, and plenty of politicians have preached about it at some time or another, yet nothing seems to have changed...I can only assume then that there are either insufficient city sanitation methods, or the people in Glasgow generally just litter more??? (No offense to any Glaswegians here or anything, that's just what I have to conclude).

Most other UK cities have improved quite a lot over the years on this matter. When I went to Edinburgh a couple of year ago the streets looked well kept (I only went round the nicer areas though, so might not be true for all the city); and the same is true when I have been to other places in the UK- London, even though it has a city of seven and a half million people, still looked almost immaculatly clean when I went there last year, especially the parks and shopping streets. The same can mostly be said for Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Cardiff etc etc. As a tourist in a city, how clean it is will reflect quite heavily on my overall impression of the place, and I think this is the case for a lot of people, so Glasgow should get its act together and let people focus on the great architecture, thriving nightlife and charming character, rather then let them see what Mr Bob McBobby has thrown away last night!

[Chief]

It's an utter disgrace. Our people have no respect whatsoever for the city. It's a regular occurence to see people chucking things out of cars or just dropping things on the street when you're out and about in this city.

Until people get some basic manners and take some pride in their city, there's nothing the council can do about it. Depressing.

[Seth Gecko]

I blame the parents.

[Seth Gecko]

The Boy David among 65 charged for drinking in Kelvingrove Park

[M_Riaz]

That Church spire leaning beyond them trees seems to be pissed too .

[maccoinnich]

A blanket ban on drinking in public is ridiculous.

[The Boy David]

Originally Posted by Seth Gecko

The Boy David among 65 charged for drinking in Kelvingrove Park

Very good, Seth. Very good indeed.

Now back to your bigoted and racist contributions to every thread in the Stadiums section of this website.

[Seth Gecko]

[loose canon]

just back from hols so heres a late contorbution just tipical of glasweegians let the corpy clean up our mess even if the bins were over flowing the stuff cosumed was more than likley brought in a bag so why not take it home in a bag or in a street bin further down the street although I have noticed they are becoming few and far between now a days remember when there was a bin on every lamp post with mr happy on it I say bring back Mr Happy

[Momus]

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