Many people know the Highway Beautification Act (HBA) as "Lady Bird's Bill" in honor of President Lyndon Johnson's wife Lady Bird, a driving force behind the landmark 1965 law that sought to reduce billboard blight all across the country. Even as it was being written, the HBA was being whittled away by the billboard lobby. But today one of the last meaningful pieces in an otherwise toothless law is being jeopardized by our own Federal government. The state agreements enacted under the HBA generally prohibit commercial digital billboards, but due to immense pressure from a rich and powerful billboard lobby the Federal Highway Administration reversed its position in 2007 and decided to allow them. If this decision is allowed to stand then Lady's Bird's Bill will finally exist soley for the protection and benefit of the billboard industry.
The United States Postal Service is currently honoring Lady Bird Johnson with a series of stamps recognizing her efforts to beautify America. What does it say that at the same time our Federal Government is allowing the Highway Beautification Act to be totally undermined? Does this Administration want to be known as the one that allowed Lady Bird's Bill to be destroyed?
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| 2584 | Sun May 19 17:53:02 EDT 2013 | DONALD REXROAD | Digital billboards are a hazard to road safety and they contribute to light pollution of our night skies! |
| 2583 | Fri May 17 12:02:51 EDT 2013 | Carol Kulp | Lighted billboards are a dangerous distraction to driving...and a blight on the beauty of darkness. Please use common sense and uphold the Highway Beautification Act! |
| 2582 | Fri May 17 07:17:02 EDT 2013 | Laura Silveri | Let's honor Lady Bird Johnson's vision to preserve the beauty of our public landscapes and not to litter them with obtrusive commercialism. |
| 2581 | Wed May 15 15:41:38 EDT 2013 | Don Schumacher | Billboards are already distracting enough, brightly lit changing or animated billboards are even more distracting, constantly pulling the driver's attention from the road. They also add unnecessary brightness More.... |
| 2580 | Tue May 14 22:13:05 EDT 2013 | Shannon Dubay | |
| 2579 | Tue May 14 14:31:18 EDT 2013 | Susan N Walsh | Billboards are very distracting to drivers! |
| 2578 | Mon May 13 12:59:24 EDT 2013 | Richard Rouse | It would be nice to see the star again and not interfered with lighted bill boards |
| 2577 | Mon May 13 12:59:18 EDT 2013 | Richard Rouse | It would be nice to see the star again and not interfered with lighted bill boards |
| 2576 | Sun May 12 16:54:33 EDT 2013 | Eddie Benavides | |
| 2575 | Thu May 09 16:34:02 EDT 2013 | jacey biery | I feel that the billboards are distracting to drivers and I would love to see the stars again. |
| 2574 | Tue May 07 18:18:55 EDT 2013 | Bill Whipple | |
| 2573 | Sat May 04 23:29:58 EDT 2013 | Peter Chase Neumann | Let's start defending our society from the deadly assaults on our children and other loved ones that are being carried out with assault weapons, with countermeasures. One such countermeasure is to beautify More.... |
| 2572 | Sat May 04 12:36:48 EDT 2013 | D. Grow | Many adults and now most children rarely see the beuaty of the night sky. My father showed my Orion's belt from our house in the city. I was able to show my daughter a remnant Milky Way from the suburbs. More.... |
| 2571 | Tue Apr 30 01:26:20 EDT 2013 | Caroline Kim | The old billboards were bad enough but the new digital ones are incredible visual and light polluters and distracting to drivers. |
| 2570 | Mon Apr 29 16:28:47 EDT 2013 | Michelle Anderson | |
| 2569 | Mon Apr 29 00:56:11 EDT 2013 | Nikki DeHertera-Crisman | I like this idea because alot of the street lights look as if they have tiny blue lights on or around the bulbs and strangely seem to be directed at my eyes or ears and they cause physical pain. |
| 2568 | Fri Apr 26 10:15:45 EDT 2013 | Laura Fragasso | |
| 2567 | Thu Apr 25 09:22:27 EDT 2013 | Roger O. Jeanty | We have enough ubiquitous advertising in our lives everywhere and do not need the visual pollution of electronic billboards to sabotage the natural beauty still remaining to enjoy when driving on Federal More.... |
| 2566 | Wed Apr 24 18:10:53 EDT 2013 | Raymond Martin | Unlesswe stop the evolution of outdoor advertising of any kind what do you suppose the next blight will be. Laser light shows?
we truly have to draw the line somewhere. |
| 2565 | Wed Apr 24 13:35:51 EDT 2013 | Steven Plotnick | In addition to energy waste, the changing images may lead to accidents |
| 2564 | Wed Apr 24 11:52:19 EDT 2013 | Maureen McGuire | Dark skies are a national treasure. Please help us preserve them. We want to raise scientists don't we? Or children capable of wonder.
Maureen McGuire |
| 2563 | Sun Apr 21 20:48:11 EDT 2013 | Laura Greenleaf | These billboards are dangerous, as is all overly bright, unshielded, glaring light along our roadways. Four years ago the American Medical Association urged national and state level action to curb light More.... |
| 2562 | Sun Apr 21 18:36:58 EDT 2013 | Marcia Gee | Digital billboards have no place, city or highway. We have to draw the line somewhere |
| 2561 | Sat Apr 20 16:08:31 EDT 2013 | Amanda Ehrenford | |
| 2560 | Sat Apr 20 16:08:27 EDT 2013 | Amanda Ehrenford |
