Roughly 1,500 city employees are set to go on strike and the city has also run out of hotel rooms, leaving thousands of delegates still scrambling to find a place to stay
Delegates to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow may want to avoid venturing too far from their hotels lest they run into piles of garbage, angry picket lines and gangs of rats.
About 30,000 delegates are slated to attend along with 130 world leaders, including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden. There will also be thousands of activists who want their voices heard, such as the group Extinction Rebellion, which is planning a campaign of “deliberate disruption” during the conference. More than 100,000 people are also expected to march through the streets on Nov. 6 as part of a day of global action.
The pandemic has already left many civic services in short supply, and complaints have flooded in regarding overflowing litter bins and marauding rats. Social media have been filled with photos of vermin, and at least two sanitation workers had to be hospitalized recently after being bitten by rodents.
She added that garbage collection was interrupted during the pandemic and, as a result, the rat population has increased by 25 per cent. However, she said, the city has put out 150 additional garbage bins and staff have committed 12,000 hours of extra work to spruce up the downtown. “I’m confident that visitors coming to Glasgow will see, as they always see, an incredibly vibrant, diverse and welcoming urban space,” she told the committee.
Ms. Aitken, a member of the Scottish National Party , had been hoping COP26 would boost the city’s international profile and draw attention to its remarkable transition from a post-industrial wasteland to a thriving community with a number of trendy neighbourhoods such as South Side and Partick. She and other civic leaders have been counting on a successful summit outcome so that Glasgow will forever be associated with progress on the fight against climate change.
To help put the city in a good light, 1,000 volunteers have been enlisted by the SNP-controlled council to help visitors get around during the summit and to promote “the best of what Glasgow and Scotland has to offer.”
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