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by kube-system 1317 days ago
In my experience, the worst offenders are not billboards but signage for local establishments, which would usually be unaffected by a billboard ban.
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asdff 1317 days ago
Be happy these monstrosities haven't been installed near you yet, but they are coming eventually for us all:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/rdqu7o/las_favo...

https://old.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/p3ry42/you_can_...

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ryeights 1317 days ago
That is truly awful. Enough to ensure I will never move to L.A. so long as it is in operation.

Any city government that allows an installation like that deserves to be dissolved. How have people not figured out how to destroy that monstrosity yet?

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sidewndr46 1317 days ago
There is a strip club near me that is quite a ways off the interstate. They put up a sign so large you can see it from the interstate. For good measure they added in a lighthouse like light that revolves.

It's awful.

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nonameiguess 1317 days ago
I used to live across the street from AT&T Plaza in downtown Dallas, which now has this 70-foot jumbotron monstrosity lighting up 10 city blocks, 99% of the time with a screensaver: https://attd.imgix.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/13155803/A...

So glad I moved right before they started construction on this. This is on 24/7, and how that is remotely acceptable in a place people live I have no idea.

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brirec 1317 days ago
I don’t expect any laws to really change this any time soon, but the billboards in Times Square are about as egregious in this regard as it possibly could get.
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kube-system 1317 days ago
NY does have laws about this, but I'm going to guess that if anywhere has exemptions, it's Times Square.

https://www.dot.ny.gov/divisions/engineering/real-estate/rep...

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chirau 1317 days ago
I wouldn't say any of them are individually too bright (except maybe the big Nasdaq screen). I would say, however, that the density or collection of the boards makes for a really lit up scene. What disturbs me more is the frequent changes in color due to ads switching and lights going from on to off or one color to another. That fast and random changing can be annoying.
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