The Square
Sir,—“Detached” social workers, Ms Ruth Buddicom and Ms Karin Schaeper (“The Press,” August 9), are trying to tell us that the recent troubles in the Square are being blown up out of all proportion — what a load of rubbish. Ms Schaeper further tells us that her precious young people want free food in the Square on a Wednesday, the banning of motor traffic around the Square, and they also want the right to ride their bicycles across the Square as well. Why stop there? What is wrong with turning the Square into a massive video game parlour, or turning it into a tent village for anyone who fancies a rest for the week-end? Why not provide scaffolding so that the young people can finish the grafitti job that they have already started on the Cathedral? Why not let the place get totally overrun by young people so that tourists can finally get the message that the Square is not safe to walk through at night? The Square is a disgrace and an eyesore.—Yours, etc., GEORGE PERATA. August 9, 1985.
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