Gayfield Square

Reader Shaun Hodge has contacted us with a story of bureaucratic confusion and departmental inefficiency. It would be laughable if there weren't a real threat here to pedestrian safety. And, as the author concludes, it raises serious questions about accountability, inefficiency, and how public concerns are handled.

Hodge's admirable persistence is worth chronicling in full. His campaign unfolds below, told in his own words and images. Council officers' names have been obscured by us in line with Spurtle policy.