Why is Gurney Drive always dirty?
For the longest time now, there has always been complains of the horrible smelly, dirty beach front of Gurney Drive. Of course, the public will always blame the council for not doing their duty. I used to do that too until recently, when I’ve started taking regular walks there, I noticed something.
It is NOT the council’s fault that Gurney Drive is dirty. On the contrary, it is THE PUBLIC’S FAULT that the beachfront is dirty. These are my observations on my walks along Gurney Drive:
Council workers sweep and collect piles of rubbish strewn across the beach, the road, the crevices of the rocks on the beach and the whole area at least twice a day. I can see probably hundreds of kg of rubbish was collected EACH DAY.
So, is the council doing their job or neglecting their duty? I don’t know about you, even I DON’T sweep and clean my house TWICE A DAY! Don’t forget, the council is in charge of cleaning up the WHOLE of George Town so they also have to allocate workers in other areas. So, I feel that all this ‘It’s the council’s fault that Gurney Drive is dirty’ crap is really NONSENSE. Why do I say that? Read on.
At least 7 out of 10 people who ‘picnics’, hang around or just spend time there DO NOT use the rubbish bins provided. As far as they are concerned, those plastic rubbish bins are for decoration and any rubbish they have, they leave it on the ground, on the ledge, on the seats or the more ‘hardworking’ ones, they throw it INTO THE SEA / BEACH.
So, is it the council’s fault that Gurney Drive is dirty? Who put the rubbish there in the first place? The council or the public? It is the IRRESPONSIBILITY of the litterbugs that caused Gurney Drive to be dirty.
Just think, the council workers cleaned it up in the morning and then by noon, idiots have already left their litter strewn around. Council workers did a second round of cleaning up and by late evening, more morons have left MORE litter.
It is a vicious, never ending cycle. ALL THANKS TO LITTERBUGS of Penang. So, Gurney Drive is dirty BECAUSE of irresponsible idiots who litter. Unless these people change their mentality, there is no solution to it.
And if you still want to blame the council for not enforcing by summoning the people for littering. Let me tell you it will not work because there IS NO political will for this to happen! BN government, PR government, bah, they are all the same.
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Gurney Drive
Walk along in the evening breeze
Many years ago while I was staying there
Dirty beach for all to see
The sun set glowing
The sky peaked with starry stars
Yet the debris floating in
The people surrounding me
They couldn’t care a bit
The unconcerned parents
The children bad habits
All rubbish throwing in
The bad image dirty place
Rats and cockroaches
Having fun at our dirty habits
Throwing rubbish into the beach
The line of unsightly debris
The Pearl of the Orient
She cried that day
The government of the state
Pushing up high rise buildings
Bending on feeding the economy
The bad habits never change
The quick solution
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 amJail them make them clean up the dirty beach
Wearing tags to say
‘We must help the environment
And keep the public places clean’
The condos there do not have sea view anymore! More like mud view! Yikes!
The Queensbay Mall sea front is destined to have the same fate as Gurney Drive.There are many hawkers’ vans along the road in the evening (looks like Gurney Drive years ago) and I have seen rats scampering around.
I think hawkers should be banned from this stretch of road too.Why isn’t anyone doing anything about the hawkers? With the current economic situation, I would not be surprised if more people go into hawking food illegally for extra income.I guess they would be thinking ‘If ‘they’ can do it and get away with it. I am jumping on the band wagon too’
Penang always have a big problem in this area ie: illegal hawkers. Looks like no one wants to touch this sensitive issue.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:51 pm