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Your views: Cross Gates sculpture
Read and leave your views on the 'crossed gates' roundabout sculpture.
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE 'CROSSED GATES'?
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YOUR VIEWS:
A ridiculously childish interpretation of "Cross Gates" and, as has already been noted, not even a linguistically correct one!
If they'd been erected for a fiver I'd still want them pulled down...in fact can't we just sell them for scrap and put up something more fitting.
Did nobody suggest a tribute to John Smeaton or a bigger memorial to the Barnbow munitions workers?
Unbelievable.
Michael Waddington
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Complete waste of money.
Helen Whitaker
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It's the wrong sculpture. Crossgates means crossroads.
Could we replace it with a sculpture of crossroads?
Clare
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At the approach to Garforth, along the Selby Road from Colton, stands a simple piece of stone bearing the name of the area, neatly surrounded by seasonal planting.
It is an attractive, pleasing, if understated, piece of 'artwork' and infinitely preferable to the monstrosity which Cross Gates residents and visitors are met with on the roundabout at the junction of Cross Gates Road/Ring Road/Cross Gates Lane.
I expect it also cost a great deal less.
I have been a resident of Cross Gates since 1961 and was not aware of any public consultation to gauge opinion on the proposed gates, neither were the majority of people I have spoken to on the subject.
The ensuing furore certainly speaks volumes.
Mary Jones
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My first impressions, and, I have to say, those of most people I have asked is that some council workmen who were intending to work on the site had erected a barrier.
Get them removed. They look ridiculous and convey nothing.
Would get a better design if you asked the local school kids to join in
Mick Ryan
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There are a lot of cross people in Crossgates and no wonder.
These gates have cost the council tax payers 100,000 and nobody has a good word for them.
I can hardly believe that the City Architect has designed them as there is no artistic merit whatsoever in their design. They were started in November 2008 and are still not finished.
I say to the council be brave and cut OUR losses and remove them.
As a footnote the money would have been best spent in cleaning up Crossgates and also dealing with the mini lakes which appear on Austhorpe Road after heavy rain.
Valerie Jackson
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Hats off to the person who had the courage to erect their own sign on the crossed gates we would not normally condone vandalism but feel strongly that the Council is not being completely honest about the people of Crossgates voting for these gates.
Having being residents of this area for over 40 years we know quite a nunber of people and not one that we have spoken to knew anything about the gates untill they were erected, so who voted?.
One comment by a visitor "what is the scaffolding for on the roundabout" speaks for itself.
Colin and Jennifer Chappelow
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The gates are an embarrassment - maybe they will look better when they are finished!
Angela Ougham
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