Once upon a time we needed phone booths - because hardly anyone had a mobile phone. But now, since almost everyone has a phone, they are dinosaurs, their vandalised skeletons decaying in our busy streets.
Mostly nowadays they seem to be used as public urinals, or as advertising for local fast food restaurants.
Shepherd's Bush Green can feel like a bit of an obstacle course at the best of times, so one less phone booth is surely a good thing.
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| This one too, please |
There is still one one pointless phone booth left on the north side of Shepherd's Bush Green...with any luck LBHF will take this one too.
Not everyone agrees: This from Christine Shuttleworth today: "I have never posted to a blog before, but had to express my amazement at the plea for phone booths in Shepherd’s Bush to be removed. First of all, there are still a few people around who don’t have mobile phones (in 2016, only an estimated 62.9 percent of the population worldwide owned a mobile phone), and removal of phone boxes (as most people call them) is a disservice to these people. Secondly, they are part of London’s history and heritage, just as are our distinctive red buses and pillar-boxes. If they are vandalised and decaying, surely the answer is to restore them to their former glory and maintain them properly, rather than remove them."
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