sexed up

The Burrard bridge can use a little sexing up.

Oh Wayne...

Too bad you got it backwards, running for council a couple of years ago then seeking a nomination for a federal riding (or at least talking about it.)

FIRST you become a community activist, THEN you run. You might have gotten elected.

FWIW, that band land is free from municipal regulations is appalling.

The city has done much to build a community and an environment to encourage commerce: perhaps we should skim some points off the band for the economic value we've added to their land?

The extra money they make

from billboards should be taken out of their "transfer payments".

Pure and simple.

Besides

A few billboards might hide the ugly trailer park, the sewage plant, or the new aboriginal houses going to pot (literally) and already starting to fall apart.

Quote:from billboards should

Why? Please provide reasons for these bold statements or be dismissed as a cranky racist.

As the billboards themselves... I could do without them, but when people willingly adorn themselves with corporate logos, it's hard to make a case for banning them.

Are you willing to cut your municipality in for a slice when you have a garage sale and public roads bring customers to your house? Sauce for the goose and all that.

Get a Grip

So we create a city full ugly roads, ugly bridges and ugly buildings, cut down the forests, pollute the air and water, and have the gall to complain about a few billboards.

Get a grip. There are far bigger problems to tackle. Climate change for example. Once the people whining about billboards give up their cars and their ridiculously big homes, I might be more sympathetic.

Bad attitude from Vancouver

Sounds like this billboard think will turn into another "the nimbies from west van don't want but screw them cause they're rich." I see alot of soimilarities to Eagle Ridge to me.

These billboards are olympics related, I have no doubt. The aboriginals will want to take advantage of some of their own sponsorship.

However, we should cut them back on their transfer payments for making the lower mainland just a little bit uglier.

Frustrating

The frustrating thing about the proposed billboards at the North exit of the Second Narrows (in North Vancouver) is that the district cannot do anything about it. We set bylaws and rules that make sense to the greatest majority of people, but these obscene monstrosities will still go up. The only thing we can do is complain. I intend to contact every company or agency that advertises there. A thousand North Shore residents phoning you everyday asking them to take their advertising down might do the trick. You can only try. Thankfully, I live in Deep Cove and will not have that staring at me in the face from my porch. I really feel for those that it will be "front and center" for.

Trojan Horse Politics

Published in OlyBLOG September 24, 2006

"Billboards in our city will serve two important roles for the Squamish Nation. First, and seemingly unbeknownst to local news media, the strategically placed boards will generate incredible revenue when companies like Pepsi, Ford, and maybe even the TD bank scramble to buy space on the only property in town available for competitors of Coke, GM, and RBC, who just happen to be official Olympic sponsors."

You can read more here;
http://www.olyblog.com/06/BllbrdsIntrwstS09242006.shtml#BLLBRDS

we need your help

I do have some empathy for those against billboards. Out here a local hotel put up one of those billboards that are giant screens.
It has constantly changing images and is located near south end of the tunnel where the traffic merges.
It is distracting and an eyesore.

However there are bigger battles. An eyesore I guess I can put up with. The proposed Roberts Bank Port Expansion threatens our farm land, our air quality, marine mammals {whales}, sea and bird life.
Please visit our website to see how you can help.
Thank you.
http://www.againstportexpansion.org/index.html

Simple solution possibly

Whoever chooses to advertise on these billboards should experience the wrath of the consumer or anti-consumer. They should be innundated with calls and letters and emails denouncing their lack of desire to follow community standards and general circumventing of the established.
They should be maligned for jumping on the first nations billboard bandwagon a campaign of shunning and shame on them should begin.

Some perspective & some corrections

As Chair of CROA (www.stopthebillboards.ca) I took some exception to the editor's suggestion that wealth had anything to do with our current protest. First of all, I do not live in West Vancouver, as reported. I live in the District of North Vancouver, out toward Deep Cove. And secondly the idea that this campaign which is made up of community volunteers was somehow struck to preserve an exclusive, wealthy quality of life on the North Shore is absurd.
Contrary to Warnika's position that there is very little we can do to stop these billboards, there is, in fact, a great deal we can do. Visit our website to learn more. But perhaps he can be forgiven. He's from Calgary and he's only been here a few years. Obviously not enough time to distinguish the unique sense of our scenic heritage, and our increased concerns for traffic safety resulting from an increase in "external-to-vehicle" distractions as a result of these proposed signs.

Such Small Trees

Very good article about an issue which promises to get much more interesting...

Without passing judgment on the traffic safety or even the desirability of these billboards, I find it extremely interesting that residents of a city which rests almost exclusively on unceded aboriginal lands can muster up such righteous indignation. It really takes a special ability to not see such an immense forest for such small trees.

This issue recalls for me a similar debate that took place on the outskirts of Calgary a few years back, where the Tsuu T'ina First Nation built similar billboards on their land adjacent to a road and suburbs. Similar righteous indignation was expressed by owners in those suburbs, who decried any infringement of their viewscape. In one particularly heated public meeting, one such resident got up and accused the First Nation's delegation of ruining her view of the prairies. Cleverly, but seriously, the response came: "You ruined our view first."

I suppose it just goes to show that CROA's "unique sense of scenic heritage" is not as unique as they might like to think.

Come now flattax

Don't you know, Indians are the stewards of the land?

Smug Batards!

Unbelievable!

Especially "flattax 2 days ago-Sounds like this billboard think will turn into another "the nimbies from west van don't want but screw them cause they're rich." I see alot of soimilarities to Eagle Ridge to me.
These billboards are olympics related, I have no doubt. The aboriginals will want to take advantage of some of their own sponsorship.
However, we should cut them back on their transfer payments for making the lower mainland just a little bit uglier."

Speaking of ugliness - You racist batard!

paying for inflicted ugliness...

If communities were forced to pay an "ugly" tax the province would be the black in no time... Just drive around the lower mainland and look at the clearcut 'n' shoehorn 'em in, style of housing that is going up.

Free Bear

Nothing I said there was racist.

I believe you may be the racist one since you so easily pull the term out of a hat and start to use it. Look in the mirror for ugliness, freebear.

...As an aside, I agree with the previous comment that most of the buildings going up are just plain ugly. The lower mainland's descent into uglyness started with Arthur Erickson and his depressing and unfriendly concrete SFU campus and the useless and leaky Robson square. Unfortunately, his legacy of concrete continues to this day. Add glass as a cheap construction material and you get Yaletown...tomorrow's slum.

And I am not even getting into how Vancouver special/stucco mausoleums have decimated vast tracts or residential areas of Vancouver.

Now that you mention it Blonde Pitbull, a few billboards do not seem so bad compared to the glass condos/vancouver specials/stucco mausoleums, things that have actually been OK'd by city planners.

Flattax...

See we found something we agree on. I knew it could be done.Cheers.

FlatTax and Flat Earth

The racist tag was because of your quip about cutting Transfer Payments to First Nations.

If (some) First Nations create ulgliness, why would the Province use First Nation culture to sell tourism?

Is that because we have no culture in the non-native communities? Oh wait shopping is now considered culture right? Talk about ugly!

Bridge Safety is the utmost priority!

Simply, bridge well-being (limits of approach) combined with "crossing motorist" Safety standards should be used to defeat any such "newer" standalone type (bright, animated) "distraction sign" construction, cold!
Such monster signs should present a long-term Civil Engineering stability nightmare, regardless (given "eddy" soils base), eh!

Good argument on safety

There was a ginormous animated billboard that was on the road out to Pitt Meadows. Didn't that get turned down or off for safety reasons?

TGI Microsoft

No, it runs on Windows, it just crashes often.