Wielding a high-powered pressure washer and a gleeful smile, Mayor Rob Ford got his hands seriously dirty and seriously wet in launching the city's graffiti eradication initiative in an alley behind St. Clair Avenue West last Thursday. But the final results of the mayor's efforts suggest his city-wide spray-paint purge leaves something to be desired.
Four days after the mayor's appearance, the remnants of colourful graffiti were still clearly visible in the alley. The pressure washer had stripped away several layers of graffiti but left behind flakes of paint and the clear outlines of gang tags. Neighbours said the eradication crew remained for two hours after the mayor left, but couldn't get the wall clean.
“Yes, it's ugly, but it's better than what it was,” said Jeff Gillan, who lives next door and is chair of the local business improvement association. “There used to be dirty slogans all over that wall that you can't read anymore.”
A spokeswoman for the mayor's office said the wall will eventually be covered with a mural.
One hopes the artists of the city organize to remove said "legal" mural for the atrocities they will be.
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