The use of billboards and…

The use of billboards and signage should be more restricted, especially along highways around rural communities. Not only is signage very distracting for young and less-experienced drivers such as myself and responsible adult drivers alike, but signage also adds a great degree of visual pollution to the environment. Being a passenger in a vehicle when travelling is often a great way to enjoy the scenery (e.g. Trees, landforms, rock outcrops, fields, etc.). This peaceful visual is often disturbed however through billboards and other signage.

When travelling through the city in and around election time, campaign signs for various candidates and government parties are clustered around street corners and city centres. The number of signs for a single candidate in these clusters is appalling. Sometimes, one can find upwards of 10 or more signs for a single candidate all right next to each other, facing the same direction. Not only is this method of over-planting signs ineffective in its purpose of drawing voters (it is frankly annoying to most people and especially distracting for drivers), it plays a part in visually polluting suburban, urban, and rural neighbourhoods, as well as negatively impacting the environment through the great waste of paper and plastic used for these signs.

I urge you to please restrict the amount of signs placed along our highways as they prove distracting for drivers and visually pollute the scenery for which Canada is widely known for.

[Original Comment ID: 205142]