Yes, yesterday I met a nervous young youth in a lane way and although we were talking about Graffiti wrecking the community - he actually agreed. It was about graffiti on a wall not associated with public transport - I admit - but here came the connection with public transport - he had commit crimes on railway trains-and paid his dues to society!
He was defacing training and placing graffiti on them with others - he now preaches to the young not to do this anti-social thing and gets no response from the other youths - he advised you can be convicted for 6 months jail if found guilty - he has learnt his lesson. I think he is a great young man who has the courage to tell a stranger this and find him to be stronger person then he was before. He told these youths do this for boredom and they they want to be recognised for the creative art and signature they provide. To me, there would be other ways of doing this. There is a group in Mount Druitt called Community 2770, I think they should do something about this.
Back in May NSW Transport advised us of what they do and what we should do to prevent these youths doing if catching them doing this on trains. Also the major affect once you as an individual see something and get the right authorities notified, is ultimately reducing the ongoing cost of cleaning up these graffiti trains, which so stands at $55Million.
Here is there story:
He was defacing training and placing graffiti on them with others - he now preaches to the young not to do this anti-social thing and gets no response from the other youths - he advised you can be convicted for 6 months jail if found guilty - he has learnt his lesson. I think he is a great young man who has the courage to tell a stranger this and find him to be stronger person then he was before. He told these youths do this for boredom and they they want to be recognised for the creative art and signature they provide. To me, there would be other ways of doing this. There is a group in Mount Druitt called Community 2770, I think they should do something about this.
Back in May NSW Transport advised us of what they do and what we should do to prevent these youths doing if catching them doing this on trains. Also the major affect once you as an individual see something and get the right authorities notified, is ultimately reducing the ongoing cost of cleaning up these graffiti trains, which so stands at $55Million.
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Posted: Monday 16 May 2011
Volunteers in communities from all over NSW took part in the second Graffiti Action Day on Sunday 15 May. To support this important initiative, additional graffiti cleaning was carried out by CityRail staff across the network.
Graffiti Action Day is a partnership between the NSW Government and Keep Australia Beautiful NSW where members of the community are asked to volunteer and help 'clean up' graffiti at various locations across NSW.
With 1600 carriages, 307 stations and hundreds of kilometres of rail corridor, the CityRail network is a main target for graffiti vandals in NSW. Last year, total vandalism including the removal of more than one million graffiti tags cost about $55 million.
CityRail cleaning staff work tirelessly to remove graffiti every day so that trains can be returned to service, as quickly as possible, in a clean and tidy condition for the comfort of our customers. In addition, our security staff work closely with Police through the Rail Vandalism Task Force to detect, apprehend and prosecute these vandals.
How you can help
- If you see someone vandalising CityRail property, call our Security Hotline on 1800 657 926
- If you know someone who vandalises CityRail property, call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
