I've been on Capitol Hill a few times in the last few months and every time I notice how covered their sign posts are:
Why is this such a bad thing? When I see this, it looks like I'm in a city where there are a bunch of things happening. Why not allow people to use power poles in downtown Tacoma or the neighborhood districts to advertise events and program?
Everyone loves when Beautiful Angle posters show up on poles (which is technically a code violation). Why not just drop the pretense and open up the poles?
There aren't enough "what's happening" boards to be as helpful as advertising on the poles. I really don't see what's so bad about having poles like this on the street. They don't look bad to me. And they'd actually convey useful information to the pedestrian and help event-promoters get even more people on the street.
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Arrghh. Stupid blogger is making commenting difficult. Here's a comment Morgan sent:
Erik- I totally agree. This has been a frustrating topic for me- even living through the prohibition of posting in Seattle (yes, it was made illegal there).
City Light will come out and say that it's "dangerous" to have all these stapled posters on their poles - which is a complete rouse. More to the point, posting allows fringe groups (youth) the ability to communicate sometimes using brash and crude graphics and language. This is often upsetting to those over the age of 55 - which is the group that runs things in this town.
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