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As residents of the city, we pay the council our taxes to take responsibility for public issues such as this, so in my view it would be "shifting the responsibility" to charge individuals with managing this situation. Which, as has been pointed out, is of a scale that requires a large coordinated response.

I think you overestimate the benefits of contacting councillors. I've a friend who is involved in tenant rights advocacy, and the sheer uselessness of GCC and their cravenness in the face of landlords and developers cannot be overstated. Meaning, that if it's not causing a personal problem for the people who sit on the council, do not expect a meaningful response.

If it was a possibility, yeah I'd volunteer to try to control/exterminate them. For example, I've taken part in litter picking by the canal in the past. I don't think folk should be arranging this stuff spontaneously, especially since we're literally paying the council to do it for us, but people naturally get fucked off when the council spends years doing very little, and end up trying to do it themselves.

TBH it's the thing that fucks me off the most about Glasgow. People just do not care enough about the city's environment and infrastructure. Housing, public transport, cycling infrastructure, our architectural heritage, our public spaces. We create public bodies nominally to manage these things, they turn out to be incompetent and/or corrupt, so we just look the other way and excuse them, and try to pretend that everything's fine, even when the problems are obvious to everyone.

(Also, posting this on Reddit is quite literally raising awareness of the issue 😉)