White banners of protest were hung out on the streets, and the names of pro-preservation scholars were scrawled on walls, as were accusations that their "insistence on preserving run-down relics disregards the security of people and property."
街上開始掛起抗議白布條，牆上書寫持保存主張的學者姓名，直指其「堅持保留破屋殘垣，罔顧民眾生命及財產安全」。