$2 Million To Remove The Billboards, Hahaha WHAT?
Posted 1/3/14
Note: this column appeared in the Dec. 11, 2013 Mad River Union. – Ed.
When I read that Caltrans estimates the cost of removing the billboards along U.S. Highway 101 between Arcata and Eureka at $2 million, my first thought was “Bleep, I know guys who would do it for a can of gas for their chainsaw and a six pack.”
My second thought was that if the fight goes on long enough, climate change will take care of the problem for us. I commuted between the two cities from 1990 to 1994, and during that time, a massive wind storm toppled several of them into matchsticks.