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Billboards in Pennsylvania: Highway Blight

To the Editor:

My pet peeve with Pennsylvanian and Morrisons Cove highways is the prevalence of huge billboards.

The article accompanying a map in the Sept. 9, 2021, edition of the Herald (Page A-10) regarding the billboards in Pennsylvania seemed to present a rosy view of having billboards along our highways. I myself counted almost 30 billboards between east Freedom and Martinsburg advertising some local businesses but also fast food operations and beer.

I believe that the state of Pennsylvania and the local communities should do more to end this highway blight – specifically, eliminating th...

 

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