The old, flower-bedecked pergola had run along the south bank of the #Maiwar for more than two hundred years. When #StarfleetMedical had redeveloped the old Children’s Health precinct at the eastern end, they’d toyed with the idea of extending the Grand Arbour further, adding a little greenery to the unshakable grey human-inflicted dreariness of #Meanjin’s metropolitan core. The boffins in the city cabinet had vetoed it. All good things, they said, must come to an end – in this case, a physical one.