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John Wyman: Digital billboards put us on a dangerous road
(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Billboards are stacked along the 600 South offramp from I-15 in Salt Lake City on Tuesday, March 13, 2018.
By John Wyman | Special to The Tribune
| Jan. 28, 2021, 9:00 p.m.
How would you like to be kept awake by a gigantic 672-square-foot screen beaming advertisements through your windows until midnight? Do you enjoy swerving around distracted drivers on your daily commute? If yes, Senate Bill 61 is for you.
The vote on SB61 is only days away. If it succeeds, SB61 would permit billboard companies to turn all their existing billboards into bright electronic video screens that flash new messages every eight seconds. Overnight, our billboards would turn into humongous TVs, only we can’t choose where to put them, when to change the channel, and they only show commercials.