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East Boston wonders: Does Marty Walsh like billboards more than Tom Menino?
By adamg on Fri, 03/25/2016 - 9:08am
The East Boston Times-Free Press reports on a controversy about a McLellan Highway Hilton's plans for an illuminated billboard. Seems the neighborhood thought the hotel agreed not to put up a billboard, the hotel says it thought it only agreed not to put up a billboard blaring "HILTON." Tom Menino effectively banned billboards as blights:
With a new administration at the helm, Goldberg and Logan Communications are banking on Mayor Martin Walsh being more open minded to billboards.
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The Pop Up Ads of YesterYear
Why are such things still allowed anywhere, grandfathered or otherwise?
As obnoxious as billboards
are, they're still easier to ignore than pop-up ads. Especially the pop up ads that take up either part of or the whole screen and require you to search endlessly for the 'close ad' button (which is NEVER in the same place twice) to disable the ad.
billboards
Digital billboards cannot be grandfathered in. If asking to replace a grandfathered regular billboard with a digital one they have to start at the beginning of the request procedure with Mass Outdoor Ad Lic. Board. They lose the grandfathered status. Which is a joke anyway. Grandfathers should have all died by now!
Menino was the Boston Billboard King
Menino put billboards all over Boston, he was the billboard king! Those ugly illuminated ones that stick out of the sidewalks all around downtown, and on some median strips. Menino called them "street furniture" and some served as bus stops, but many served no other purpose than as billboards and to make walking on the sidewalks in Boston more of an obstacle course. I know he would profess to hate them, but he said a lot of things he didn't follow up on, and this was one of the more egregious.
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Like these?
And these.
And these.
A bus shelter is useful.
A bus shelter is useful.
These, however: https://goo.gl/maps/tAxfc8DDZas serve no purpose except advertising.
That's one point for Menino
Fewer billboard blights, not more. There are still some awful billboards that should go away.
Billboards have to be
Billboards have to be elimated , East Boston is not the "take advantage" I'm going to place a billboard where ever I feel like neighborhood so we can make thousands of dollars each month, the 1960s are over. Neighborhood is in a process of more improvements not blight.