SYDNEY’S STREETS

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30366, 15 February 1964, Page 13

SYDNEY’S STREETS

Tidy-up Plan Adopted (Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, February 14. Sydney, both city and suburbs, should soon have a much more pleasing appearance. The City Council has asked a firm of architects to design a “new look for Sydney’s ugly street furniture.” Metropolitan councils have been invited to take part in an anti-litter campaign, including a “Be Tidy Week.” The architects have been asked to investigate and report on how traffic signs, lighting standards, telephone booths, lavatories, letterboxes and litter bins could be made. “less hideous.” Aiderman D. Griffin, who raised the plea for the inquiry, said Sydney’s shabby, tatty street furniture made it a hick town. "Ugly, Hideous” He said nothing had ever been done to co-ordinate or supervise the design of this furniture. “The result is an ugly hotch-potch of hideous colour and ugly obstructions in our streets,” he said. The Sydney City Council, in a letter to suburban councils, said it had been concerned for some time over the untidy conditions being created in streets and public parks.