| Topic: | Re:Ealing's Park Rangers | |
| Posted by: | Eugene Wroblewsi | |
| Date/Time: | 22/11/10 18:22:00 |
| Unfortunately I view the redundancy of the Park Rangers as a good thing for Ealing, not a bad thing. While it is never good to lose jobs, there is little or no role for the Park Rangers in Ealing in their present form. Politics have meant that a valuable role of "Park Keeper" has been supplanted by an environmentally-focused activist job description that does not fit the requirements of Ealing. For example, a friend of mine (with a bicycle) was stopped from picking up a not-very-large piece of broken fallen branch to take home for his living room fire on a piece of COMMON LAND by a ranger who suggested that the wood was to be left for beetles to breed! This is Political Correctness gone mad. The Park Rangers spend days with heavy equipment digging fallen tree trunks into the ground on Ealing Common for a beetle breedery, however, they will not stop cyclists who are illegally terrorising park users in places like Walpole Park. There are now no "No Cycling" notices left on our recreational spaces as the Park Rangers have removed them making many of our parks unsafe for small children, mothers with prams, and the elderly due to the inconsiderate encroachment by illegal cyclists. We have bye-laws to make the highly-densely-populated Ealing a safe place to live which our Park Rangers just ignore while following some other agenda of their. Another area where the Park Rangers have detracted from the qaulity of life in Ealing is their personal and petty vendetta against barbecues on ANY common land or park in Ealing. One would think that in this day-and-age they would understand that perhaps setting aside a section of the park as suitable for barbecues might be a good idea, or perhaps allowing barbecues so long as they are lifted off the ground so they do not damage grass as is allowed by other councils around the country! However, this is not the case and each summer brings a clutch of paper notices around Ealing saying: "No Barbecues"! To conlude, cutting the Park Rangers is not a "soft option", it is a necessary change to restore the pleasant and people-centric nature of Ealing as it once was with clean ponds in Walpole Park (something else the Park Rangers ignore) and recreation for Ealing's residents; not beetle breederies! |