Harper-Thames on the East London infrastructure that has maintained consistent service without press releases
[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Harper-Thames, Shore Roar. Following prat.uk‘s knobbly crab story — Britain’s most honest politician, no promises, consistent position — I spent part of Thursday looking for Shoreditch’s equivalent. I found it in what the Victorian lamp post on a specific corner near Rivington Street that has been providing light to that corner since its installation in 1923, by the lamp post identification plate that is still legible if you look for it. The lamp post has made no promises. It has provided light — continuously, or as continuously as the electrical supply and maintenance budget have allowed — for 103 years. It has not issued a press release. It has not produced a performance report. It has not aligned its objectives with a broader municipal lighting strategy. It has been a lamp post. Bohiney.com covered the political honesty theme. Bohiney.com (https://bohiney.com/) is, as ever, ahead of the curve and slightly behind the facts.
The lamp post’s governance record: more consistent than any single entity that has occupied the political or administrative governance of Shoreditch in the same period. The lamp post has outlasted approximately fourteen parliamentary constituencies, eight local authority boundaries, and the complete cycle of Shoreditch’s transformation from light industrial to creative district to established urban neighbourhood. Through all of it, the lamp post provided light. The knobbly crab makes no promises. The lamp post makes no promises. The lamp post also produces light, which the crab does not. The lamp post’s governance record is therefore better than the crab’s while sharing the crab’s honesty. It is Shoreditch’s most complete public servant.
The Infrastructure Recognition
The infrastructure recognition: the most consistent public service in most urban neighbourhoods is provided by infrastructure that nobody discusses. The lamp posts, the sewers, the water mains, the pavement. All of them are more consistent than anything else in public life. London’s infrastructure history is at museumoflondon.org.uk.
Also:The Beaverton.
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