Comments on: Observations on Sixth St. sleepers

By: re:place Magazine

re:place Magazine — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:24:12 +0000

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By: waferboard

waferboard — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:47:01 +0000

Those steel bars are interesting from all sorts of angles. I've noticed the numbers of sleepers has gone down. They haven't disappeared though. Panhandlers use the bar as a sort of arm rest and as a space divider. The bars are also, inadvertently I presume, garbage catchers. Stuff that gets over the barrier seems to stay there.

By: WIll

WIll — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 04:13:26 +0000

When the Royal Bank building was built across from the mall on 6th avenue, I immediately noticed the street sleepers and panhandlers in the alcoves of the building. It was not long before the property owner installed steel shapes in those spaces to prevent that. I think it is a shame tey didn’t make the steel shapes bike lockups.