sMichael said: "put the ads on the sidewalks, and (hopefully) they'll vanish from those two-story billboard monstrosities."

With apologies for being a broken record, there is NO billboard removal component to the street furniture proposal.

You will not get DIFFERENT or BETTER outdoor advertising, you will get MORE outdoor advertising.

there was a reason why the "hopefully" was in parentheses, y'know...

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SCRUB is going to have a heart attack:


L.A 2009:



http://www.wired.com/culture/design/...st_bladerunner


I wish we could do this in Market East when they build the mall/towers at 12th st...

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I continue to be amazed that SEPTA doesn't sell the ad space in its buses more aggressively. The space above the seats is often half empty in the buses I ride. And, aside from McDonald's ads, they're all for social service agencies. That's fine, but how about the odd commercial enterprise too?

have you seen the Septa trains that are wrapped in a white toilet paper ad on the inside. It makes the entire train look so clean! (and soft)

Damn Cottonelle...

http://threeareblog.com/?p=253

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I wish we could do that to the exterior of the Gallery.

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I think SCRUB has a point.

CBS is currently supposed to maintain the city's bus shelters.

If we want to plaster our sidewalks with ads--not something, by the way, I am against--we need to do it with a contract that contains stiff penalties for failure to comply.

We should also encourage citizens' groups and CDCs to adopt local transit stops (bus stops, carstops, etc.) and keep them clean. It would not surprise me if, say, the greater Logan Square Neighborhood Association decided to maintain all the bus shelters on the Parkway because CBS was failing to do their job--and CBS sued them, for doing their job! Ha!

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This, this, this, and this are my new favorite things.

These two, not so much.

HA! That is totally something I could see happening!

But you're right. If the agreement is advertizing space in exchange for maintenance, the maintenance side of it needs to be inforced.

The voluntary aspect of it is valid too. There's nothing worse than someone who complains about trash, blight, etc. - and then turns around and says "I'm not cleaning it up, that's not my job."

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The idealistic are no longer concerned with influencing public opinion and creating a free world of responsible and ethical social choices, but rather imposing opinion through legislation, mandating these ethics, and outlawing choice in what the loudest sample finds offensive.

Ban the Bans. It's a slippery slope between Idealism and Fascism.