By Richard Rothfelder, Rothfelder and Falick The Texas Transportation Commission has been holding public hearings, considering comments from stakeholders, and otherwise considering amendments to TxDOT’s administrative rules governing federally assisted highways for the last several months. The primary reason cited by TxDOT for the rules amendments was to make them […]
Insider has previously written about the efforts of two New Haven, CT Alderman to oppose a 10 by 23 digital billboard which has been legally erected at 1057 Whalley Avenue and Emerson Street by Advertex. Make sure you get both your state and local permit is the lesson from this […]
OSHA has a searchable database on accidents and fatalities. Insider sorted the database based on the NAICS code 541850 (outdoor advertising) and the results were encouraging. Accidents and fatalities are trending down. Annual outdoor advertising accidents and fatalities were 1.6 and 0.8, respectively, for the last five years versus a […]
OUTFRONT has deployed 250 smart digital screens in Boston’s transit system. The MBTA is thrilled by the $100 million in revenue generated from the screens. Boston Magazine writes there’s a backlash against the screens by the Massachusetts Preservation Alliance and Friends of the Public Garden who say that screens […]
By Kerry Yoakum, Vice President of Government Affairs, OAAA On February 1, FHWA informed New York State DOT that it would withhold $14 million as penalty for the State’s installation of illegal on-road signs that promote New York State. Kerry Yoakum, an attorney and former state regulator at Ohio […]
President Trump’s infrastructure plan calls for a shift from federal control and funding to states and localities. The 53-page plan released by The White House February 12 did not specifically target the Bonus Program. However, on Page 23, the plan encouraged states to repay federal highway funds for the […]
New research on driver behavior says drowsiness is a bigger problem than previously revealed in government estimates. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety issued a report February 8 based on dash-cam video from 700+ crashes. Detecting drowsiness after crashes is difficult and under-reported, the auto club said. Federal estimates […]
TCTimes reports that Outfront Media is seeking to convert a billboard in Fenton Township, Michigan to digital. The board is located on US 23 at Thompson Road. This would be the only one of Outfront’s six billboards in Fenton Township which can be converted to digital. The other boards are […]
A federal court ruling that invalidated Tennessee’s billboard law – If allowed to stand – could jeopardize billboard regulations nationwide, said a legal brief filed by the out of home advertising industry. In 2017, US District Court Judge Jon P. McCalla struck Tennessee’s billboard law as unconstitutional, citing a 2015 […]
The Gainesville Times is reporting that after three years of negotiations, the City has reached a compromise to allow digital billboards. Fairway Outdoor has the majority of the 70 or so billboards and had submitted 15 applications to convert existing static boards to digital. All the applications were denied by […]
