YORK: Graffiti yobs ‘defacing city’

Graffiti yobs ‘defacing city'

NEW facilities installed in and around York are already being spoiled by vandals, according to a city councillor.
Coun John Galvin is angry that a new utility substation box near the pedestrian crossing outside York College has already been defaced and graffiti has been scrawled on new passenger timetable boxes at bus stops in the neighbouring village of Bishopthorpe.

Coun Galvin said: "Graffiti like this on newly-installed facilities is just sheer vandalism.
"It is appalling that facilities outside York College, a new £60 million building that has only been there for a couple of months, is being abused. The building is a showcase and it is on one of the prime routes into the city centre near the racecourse and there for all to see.
"At the moment there is only a little, but once it starts more is bound to follow.
He said it was absolutely soul destroying to see that there is also more graffiti of this kind taking place in nearby Bishopthorpe.

Coun Galvin said: "City of York Council and the bus company have worked hard to put in place a programme to refresh the bus stops and passenger timetable boxes in Bishopthorpe.
"How sad it is that now our efforts to improve the look of the area are being thwarted at every turn by this mindless vandalism.

"To the vandals doing this I would say how would you like it if I scrawled some graffiti on something that you valued like your car or bike? It is terrible to think what the state of their lives must be in to have to resort to something like this.
Paul Guilfoyle, York College's head of central learner services, said: "The substation is accessed by the utilities company and York College and we believe the graffiti has been there since before the students started at the beginning of term.
"We are working with learners to enforce an acceptable code of conduct and to date we have not experienced any graffiti problems on the new college site."

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