A RECENT article in the Evening Press featured a local butcher in Middlethorpe, Dringhouses, who had been forced, 'big brother' style by City of York Council, to remove a small advertising board from the side of Tadcaster Road (June 6).
They decided it was a danger to passing motorists, although there are no reports of the board jumping out and hitting passing cars.
Last week, the council erected four very large new bus shelters only a few hundred yards from where the offending board had been and what is plastered across both ends of these bus shelters, and yes, you've guessed it, huge six foot by four foot advertising posters.
These are tacky, grotesque and very much out-of-keeping on what was once the prettiest entrance to our city. Not any more.
But what rankles most is the hypocrisy of it all. So come on city council, practise what you preach and get rid of these intrusive posters, they are an absolute eyesore!
R Pattison,
Lindale,
Woodthorpe, York.
Updated: 11:38 Saturday, August 11, 2001
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