Civic Seating

Word on the street is that Stanhope had one of his mates tell him that the seats were uncomfortable so he put a hold on the replacement of the old seats.

I suspect that they’re improving the amenity by making it less comfortable for the unemployed, homeless and drug addicted to wile away the hours cluttering up our open spaces. Good on them for taking the initiative.

Ahh Jon is just stimulating the economy buying, building and replacing stuff that doesn’t need to be bought, built or replaced.

I don’t think the old blue ones are that comfortable to sit on in the first place and they’re normally covered in bird sht anyway.

so much for sitting and reading at lunch time.

Aren’t these things part of the “Canberra Central Design” project. It’s on the TaMs website somewhere and includes street signs, seat, bins, bollards and god knows what else. Butt ugly and completely impracticle IMHO, just look at Childers St. Someone, somewhere is making a motza out of the design and construction rights no doubt.

They are also “upgrading” the light poles by the looks of it so they look like the ones around the Canberra centre.

“City Traders were paying for this ‘upgrade’ of the seats”

Thus ensuring that the citizens of Civic have nowhere comfortable to sit other than at their establishments.

Taking a another look at them this morning, it appears they will be much loved by taggers and skaters.

Yes, I posted on this a few months ago. There was an article in the CT recently about the future of Garema Place, Canberra Centre management and expansion etc, that mentioned that the City Traders were paying for this ‘upgrade’ of the seats and bins.

I work in the middle of Garema Place, and every day I walk past the eyesore they’ve created. Seats and bins have been coralled inside fencing for some months now, with the new bench seats all wrapped in plastic, and signs proclaiming the corrals are ‘construction zones’. But there is nothing being done!

A daily irritant, but not one that you can blame on the Government, apparently. Whoever is doing it, please get on with it.

Re this subject been posted before.

Bugger, I thought I was being all cutting edge, four corners, ACA, prize winning journalistic….. I was even going to call it seatgate. 🙂

To now quote the original poster as she said it so much better than me:

“Where am I going to sit now? Damn it. What idiot chose these without sitting on them first!”