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Shut Down CBS Outdoor Eyesore
San Francisco corporate democrat Fiona Ma wants to help her friends in the corporate media by allowing more blinding and wasteful electronic billboards around the state. Check the SF Chronicle reports, call your Assemblymember to oppose AB 830, and call Caltrans to get this monstrosity demolished ASAP!
Warning -- politicians at work
Thursday, May 17, 2007
SF Chronicle
'This is commercial art - and it's darn good commercial art.'
- State Attorney General Jerry Brown, who as mayor of Oakland helped shepherd the deal for the ultra-bright Bay Bridge toll-plaza billboard, which helps support one of his pet projects, a charter School for the Arts.
"This is just modernizing technology.''
- Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, author of legislation (AB830) that would allow owners of old-fashioned billboards along landscaped highways throughout the state to convert to electronic "message centers" such as the one at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.
more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/17/EDG7QPS4U11.DTL&hw=politicians+at+work&sn=011&sc=496
Malfunctioning billboard blinds drivers leaving the Bay Bridge
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
(05-16) 19:17 PDT OAKLAND -- Motorists leaving the Bay Bridge going to the East Bay recently may have been reminded of the '70s tune "Blinded by the Light."
Greeting them -- just as they headed for an already confounding (and disabled) freeway interchange -- has been the bright glare of a 50-foot illuminated billboard gone haywire on the south side of eastbound Interstate 80.
The sign company, CBS Outdoor, blames the problem on a glitch in the sign's light-dimmer and promises to have it fixed. Responding to a cascade of complaints, Caltrans Wednesday told the billboard company that the the sign should be shut off until the repair is done, Caltrans officials said.
more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/16/BAG0KPS9I122.DTL
...
According to the SF Chronicle blog, most people want this eyesore torn down. But is SF Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, a corporate-owned democrat, has her way, we’ll be blinded by many more of these all over California. Her Assembly Bill 830 would allow expansion of billboards to digital advertisements. The bill is sponsored by the California State Outdoor Advertising Association.
AB 830 (Ma) - As Amended: May 3, 2007
SUBJECT : Outdoor advertising
SUMMARY : Allows a sign (billboard) along landscaped highways to be converted to a digital advertising display, subject to specified conditions.
Sandre Swanson
Tel: (510) 286-1670
Fiona Ma
Tel: (415) 557-2312
Thursday, May 17, 2007
SF Chronicle
'This is commercial art - and it's darn good commercial art.'
- State Attorney General Jerry Brown, who as mayor of Oakland helped shepherd the deal for the ultra-bright Bay Bridge toll-plaza billboard, which helps support one of his pet projects, a charter School for the Arts.
"This is just modernizing technology.''
- Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, author of legislation (AB830) that would allow owners of old-fashioned billboards along landscaped highways throughout the state to convert to electronic "message centers" such as the one at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.
more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/17/EDG7QPS4U11.DTL&hw=politicians+at+work&sn=011&sc=496
Malfunctioning billboard blinds drivers leaving the Bay Bridge
Christopher Heredia, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
(05-16) 19:17 PDT OAKLAND -- Motorists leaving the Bay Bridge going to the East Bay recently may have been reminded of the '70s tune "Blinded by the Light."
Greeting them -- just as they headed for an already confounding (and disabled) freeway interchange -- has been the bright glare of a 50-foot illuminated billboard gone haywire on the south side of eastbound Interstate 80.
The sign company, CBS Outdoor, blames the problem on a glitch in the sign's light-dimmer and promises to have it fixed. Responding to a cascade of complaints, Caltrans Wednesday told the billboard company that the the sign should be shut off until the repair is done, Caltrans officials said.
more:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/16/BAG0KPS9I122.DTL
...
According to the SF Chronicle blog, most people want this eyesore torn down. But is SF Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, a corporate-owned democrat, has her way, we’ll be blinded by many more of these all over California. Her Assembly Bill 830 would allow expansion of billboards to digital advertisements. The bill is sponsored by the California State Outdoor Advertising Association.
AB 830 (Ma) - As Amended: May 3, 2007
SUBJECT : Outdoor advertising
SUMMARY : Allows a sign (billboard) along landscaped highways to be converted to a digital advertising display, subject to specified conditions.
Sandre Swanson
Tel: (510) 286-1670
Fiona Ma
Tel: (415) 557-2312
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You can bet that the corporate millionaires who put up such MONSTROSITIES, don't ever have to live anywhere near them; don't even have to drive by them because they are usually chauffered in a smoked glass limo in the back seat. I say tear it down and let them put it up in Pacific/Presidio Heights, Seacliff or the Marina Green.
KGO-TV is one of the corporations who advertizes on that *BLINDING* BILLBOARD MONSTROSITY. So call KGO and "7 On Your Side" (to see who's side they're really on) and give them some ear pollution!
Lets start a consumer boycott campaign of anyone who advertizes on such wasteful billboards.
Yet the cops often hassle people (especially outside of Berkeley) who hold up simple anti-war banners on highway overpasses as "driver distractions/hazzards". You see when the CAPITALISTS want to create driver distractions/hazzards -- and if your sign costs $50,000 to a half-million dollars vs. $30 or less -- then anything goes.