Heart of Frankston Campaign
School Students Have Their Say!
How to make Frankston a better place
Frankston is a big area. It has a wide range of shops and a beautiful beach. However, the centre of all this, has given Frankston a bad reputation. With buses and trains always passing through, many different people pass through also. Some of these people have helped give Frankston its bad reputation.
For example; people who are taking drugs. This is one of Frankston's biggest problems. I don't think I have ever been into Frankston and not seen someone who looks like they have been affected by drugs. The council needs to come up with ways to help fix problems like this, they could make a rehab centre to encourage and help those addicted, to stop taking drugs.
Another thing that makes Frankston's appearance bad is graffiti. To me, and I'm sure many others, graffiti is not a good look and it isn't just happening in Frankston, graffiti is everywhere: Fences, buses, houses, shop walls, wherever people can easily make their mark.
Something that the council might decide to do about graffiti is organise a group of people to start cleaning the graffiti from all the walls and buses. It could be a group of volunteers or even better, the people that have been caught tagging or shoplifting. This would be effective in two ways; if these people that have been caught are teenagers it would teach them a lesson and might actually make them think twice before committing another crime and would also be cleaning Frankston of graffiti.
Security in Frankston is definitely needed. If security guards are constantly walking the streets, people would be less interested in tagging and shoplifting. Security would also increase the safety of those taking public transport like, buses or trains. Especially when Frankston is where a lot of school students pass through before and after school.
Something that would significantly improve the lives of those in Frankston is a homeless shelter. Somewhere for people with no house or way of life. For those who have no money and can't afford food or a place to stay. This would really benefit Frankston and the people in it.
By Ashleigh Magri