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Removing benches deals with homelessness as effectively as cutting bus service since the homeless often ride the bus.

Being able to sit in public and take in the scene is a vital part of feeling connected to a place.

Removing benches is not an attacck on the homeless, it's a dereliction of civic duty. Those who decide to do it do not know what they are doing. What they are doing is eroding public space and our subsequent exposure to and respect for it.

In no way is it any kind of solution to the homeless problem, or any problem.

It's a measure that makes us feel relieved in the short-term, and like we've done or accomplished something, but all it really does is highlight our stupidity and lack of imagination.

by Jazzy on Oct 22, 2011 8:21 pm • link • report

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