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#1 of 76 Billboards Should Be Outlawed by steve_ HOST

Aug 27, 2007 (8:42 am)

In most states you see a commercial every mile. Or worse. How many more billboards can we tolerate? Lady Bird Johnson, where are you now that we need you?
 
Anyone up for a Ro-AD Trip?
 

#2 of 76 Not sure they should be outlawed by pf_flyer HOST

Aug 27, 2007 (8:46 am)

But I'm pretty sure that a lot of people haven't heard of the concept of advertising clutter!

#3 of 76 Re: Not sure they should be outlawed [pf_flyer] by steve_ HOST

Aug 27, 2007 (8:48 am)

Replying to: pf_flyer (Aug 27, 2007 8:46 am)
They are banned in Alaska - all you get are the little blue directional signs, except on the actual business property.
 
Of course, Alaska is more beautiful than anywhere else, right?
 
Here's a good synopsis of existing federal law from a scenic group in South Carolina.

#4 of 76 Re: Not sure they should be outlawed [steve_] by wlbrown9

Aug 27, 2007 (9:08 am)

Replying to: steve_ (Aug 27, 2007 8:48 am)
Not banned in Tennessee. Billboard companies tend to lobby the folks in goverment pretty well. Now we are starting to get electronic billboards. I think we need to remove most if not all the old billboards and not allow new ones. But I don't think that is going to happen.

#5 of 76 Re: Not sure they should be outlawed [wlbrown9] by steve_ HOST

Aug 27, 2007 (9:10 am)

Replying to: wlbrown9 (Aug 27, 2007 9:08 am)
Not banned in Tennessee
 

#6 of 76 Electronic billboards by pf_flyer HOST

Aug 27, 2007 (9:10 am)

They're a pretty neat idea ignoring the clutter. Makes it really easy to change advertisers, must be easier/cheaper than having to print things up and send a crew out to paste them up.

#7 of 76 Re: Not sure they should be outlawed [steve_] by fezo

Aug 27, 2007 (9:12 am)

Replying to: steve_ (Aug 27, 2007 8:48 am)
Vermont has similar billboard laws. There aren't any. There are small directional signs and that's pretty much it. I keep thinking 20 below and snow might not be that bad...

#8 of 76 Ya know by fezo

Aug 27, 2007 (9:22 am)

I don't mind putting the ads on the sides of barns - at least to an extent.
 
The electronic ones are the most distracting of all. Could definitely do without.
 
There has been a real thinning of the herd down here at the Jersey shore and Pinelands. We used to have Burma Shave signs when I was a kid. Those were fun.
 
A thing that will never
 
Come to pass
 
Is a back seat driver
 
Out of gas
 
Burma Shave.

#9 of 76 Interstate Pornography... by jipster

Feb 23, 2008 (4:14 am)

is what billboard advertisement is. Selling out the scenery and beauty of our cities and highways for a couple bucks... absolutely ridiculous. If you had never grown up with billboards in your city, and just happened to stumble upon them one day in your travels... what would you think? Corporate ghetto greed at its worse!

#10 of 76 Billboards should be regulated... by andys120

Feb 23, 2008 (9:28 am)

but not banned, that's how we do it New Hampshire and it works pretty well. There's plenty of nice unspoiled scenery to look at but free speech (which BBs are a form of) is preserved.
 
I spent my college years going up the Quickway (NY 17) thru the Catskills and enjoyed the signs for Borscht Belt attractions like Grossinger's and Kutscher's, not to mention those now iconic Burma Shave signs..

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