This graffiti along the Channel Parkway in Penticton is supposed to be getting removed.
Image Credit: Facebook/Penticton
August 18, 2023 - 12:02 PM
It took a week and possibly the intervention of the media, but obscene graffiti is going to be removed from the Channel Parkway abutment in Penticton.
A post to social media on Aug. 8, included an image of the graffiti with words asking a question about a sexual act. Others commented the answer to the question, about 50 feet further down the channel, was just as offensive.
“There are thousands of tourists (including the hundreds of families with children) that are slowly channel floating by this very offensive graffiti every day in the summer months these past few years that it has been there,” the post read. “Why don’t any of our elected officials or city managers bother to step up and think of sending a couple of maintenance workers with some grey paint to cover it up so our city doesn’t look anymore trashy then it needs to be?”
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While the comments suggested the writer should call the city, the graffiti was actually on property under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure.
“The ministry is working with local authorities on the removal of the graffiti on this retaining wall,” the Ministry said in an email to iNFOnews.ca five days after being asked about the mess. “Graffiti on ministry infrastructure in the Penticton area should be reported to the maintenance contractor, AIM Roads, at 1-866-222-4204.”
AIM Roads did not respond to a request from iNFOnews.ca for a comment by publication time.
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