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Vandals have attacked the "Joyriding" exhibit outside the Roxy Art House – a car stuck in a basement. What say you, culture lovers?

Why do people do stuff like this? Here we have a guy trying to add something interesting, something that will get people talking and perhaps liven up our streets a little. And along come some neds and trash it.

Drunken Master

"Why do people do stuff like this?" I thought you were talking about putting the car in there in the first place! The "artist" says "I thought it looked better in pristine condition" – it would have looked even better on the road in full working order! Where's the art in this garbage?

Curious Yellow

Excellent! Much more thought-provoking than the original piece and most likely not an art degree between the lot of them.

Von Trippenhoff

I thought in the first article the artist made out he had owned the car and no longer had any use for it so wanted rid of it. Kind of ruins the story around the car now, it's just some random heap picked up from a scrapyard.

iPodShuffle

Too many so-called artists (ie posh people with more money and conceptual ideas rather than talent) pull off stuff like this. What a waste of a car! At least the so-called neds actually are being eco friendly and recycling waste. Laughable that people refer to it as a "feature". If someone did the same publicity stunt in Wester Hailes it would be regarded as vandalism.

Vanderbrock

The latest crisis over Edinburgh's trams project has divided the city over whether to scrap the scheme or carry on.

Classic local authority incompetence – will anyone lose their job? Nah!

Trambuster

Look, Scotland is full of whingers, we are famous for it. In Manchester no-one wanted the tram, now it's there it has majority support. This is an old city, the project was never going to easy.

Son of Hamish

It seems pretty obvious that TIE and CEC are frantically trying to find a way to keep this disaster of a project staggering on until the next Scottish elections in the hope the SNP will lose power and that whoever is in power is stupid enough to pump in yet more cash from a public expenditure pot that will be substantially reduced for absolutely no economic benefit to Edinburgh or Scotland.

DonaldK

And from (eventually) moving vehicles to parking, as the city council looks to replace cash parking meters with a system involving mobile phone calls and credit cards …

And will the hotline have a freephone number? Will it hell!

Ed Park

Surely the time and cost involved to the motorist to use a mobile phone to contact a call centre, relay car info and then credit card details (maybe in public as well) is far greater than of putting pennies (well more like 1 usually!) in a machine – again it is for the convenience of administration rather than that of the driver.

There are simpler options out there. People are only trying to park their cars, not sign up for a finance agreement, for goodness sake. Why not just add credit card readers to existing P&D machines?

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