Photo of Damaged Mural under Winderemere/Adelaide Bridge finished 3 months ago by summer students hired by LUSO and Youth Unlimited through government grants. It was a noble project doomed to failure because the spot chosen for the mural was hidden from site from Adelaide traffic and park/trail users. The other side of the bridge and nearby pillars had been vandalized with large graffiti even at the time the mural was unveiled and celebrated.
This had been documented on this site and the KLCA site and reported to LPS specialist repeatedly in the previous year.
Had it been put on the retaining wall parallel to Adelaide, it would have probably been left alone as it is in public view most of the time.
No suggestions for the mural or its placement were ever solicited from nearby residents of the huge, neighbouring apartment complex by the different groups which decided to place it under the bridge. As usual we were left out of the decision making, similar to what happened in Adelaide-Wells Park the previous year when a meeting was finally held once all decisions were made.
Residents of Kipps Lane were not informed or asked for advice before this project was undertaken. Especially the ones living next door to the park and bridge where I have lived for 9 years.
This Counters the Argument in Just Released Kipps Lane Survey about the Supposed Safe and Neighbourly Atmosphere on Kipps Lane. The City admitted the serious violence, crime and severe social problems on Kipps Lane at the outset of the Initiative in May 2007. It is quite hard to believe that the citizens told surveyers en masse that this neighbourhood is so neighbourly and safe with adequate services. Especially since only 1 in 4 agreed to answer the survey. The KLI has not even pointed out which areas of their project even bothered to fill out the survey. Was it the poverty stricken rental section? or the affluent single home dwellings?
