No Loitering - No Motorbikes - And don't walk on the paving cracks!
How interesting to see Canary Wharf Group having to revamp the tower - and devise strategies for the exodus of workers, for example, Clifford Chance - among others - moving out. During the 'noughties' Canary Wharf administered its estate with a ruthless rod of iron. They slowly slowly slowly squeezed out motorcycle parking until motorcyclists were forced to fight for spaces. (They claimed that motorcycles were an ugly blight on their cityscape!) Their wardens even removed motorcycles parked on the yellow motorcycle-parking delineation crosshatch adjacent to lampposts - for workers to return to to find it gone - a breach of 'inches'! I was one such victim. It was just sheer tyranny - because they could. I lost track of my motorbike and had to buy a new one costing £2½k. The old one was forfeited due to not being able to find where they had 'towed it away' to - and I needed transport. The book value was at least £700. How they now must wish that workers would return! That smart shopping centre is footfall hungry! Even now wishing they had motorcycles back to besmirch their cityscape! How tidy their 'cityscape' must look now without all those untidy workers! So some advice to all those hybrid workers not attending their offices at Canary Wharf: when you do decide to turn up, make sure you don't walk on the cracks in the paving; make sure you are smartly dressed; and don't loiter in those lovely grassy patches! We don't want you messing up that fine cityscape now do we?
By Charlie