Huntsville updates

[benjo33]

Amen, brother.

Originally Posted by HSVTiger

Seems ironic, the Mayor wants to ban texting but a plan to put a gawdy
tacky electronic billboard on Memorial Parkway somehow escapes from being distracting on perhaps the most dangerous stretch of freeway mess in Huntsville.

"HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A proposed $40,000 message board outside Huntsville City Hall has been scrapped in favor of a much more visible -- and expensive -- digital billboard on Memorial Parkway."

The colorful, two-sided sign would tower above the Parkway just south of the Interstate 565 interchange. About 110,000 vehicles pass that spot every day.

http://blog.al.com/breaking/2010/06/500000_electronic_billboard_on.html

This is a stupid idea, why not try to reduce the number of billboards in the city and use that tacky billboard money to replant quality trees to replace the ones we are losing to
poor planned urban sprawl. A big sign for advertisers does not improve the quality of life in the city.