good idea - bad idea

Some people in the area are rightfully upset that the Globe 'monument to world peace' doesn't have benches or anything that makes a good public square. These people organized a little rally to bring down chairs and show that you need to put the public into public spaces. The city was reserved about putting in benches because drug dealers and the homeless tend to use them for extended periods and that scares away people. Looks like someone from the 'sit in at the globe' just proved the city's point. And leaving a couch on the sidewalk is littering. Someone's going to have to take it away, but now instead of smelling like your musty basement, it's going to smell a lot worse.

I applaud the people behind the sit-in for wanting to make a difference, but adding window dressing isn't going to change the nature of the area overnight. There's still crime, there's still homeless people and there's still drugs. I saw three of the local Brock St. rummies smoking crack in the middle of the afternoon. Unfortunately that's still a part of this area, and no amount of benches and statues will change that. Maybe the OVER THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS spent on the globe could have gone somewhere else? I'm just sayin'....