street vacuum. Brussels, Belgium
November 28, 2007 by Chris | permalink
i simply wasn't fast enough to get my camera to the ready. stopped at a light on my way to the airort i look over to the left to see if i could discern the origin of the telltale two-stroke whine. i expected to see a bored boiler-suited person blowing dust into the sky to ensure that urban asthma statistics would continue to climb. much to my pleasant surprise, i observed the opposite. a youngish chap was taking a long tube and hoovering the sidewalk and gutter of smallish litter. this had the side effect of also removing the obvious piles of dust and other detritus which normally accumulates in the city. what a difference from the new tube station at St Pancreas which already has a legion of dust bunnies running the freshly painted corridors.
