Leeside 2014: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Leeside 2014

Every year when the weather gets better, I dust off one of my bicycles and ride off to my local skate park Leeside. Unfortunately a few months back, midway through an upgrade project, Leeside was set ablaze by vandals.

The Good

New stairs have been built to access Leeside from the street...

... and the graffiti memorial is still relatively intact...

The Bad

Leeside is closed. All construction seems to have halted, and a majority of the skate park is unusable.

The Ugly

This is what it looks like now, after the fire...

... This is where the fire caused the most damage...

As you can see graffiti artists have already started their process of rebuilding.

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