Just when I was hoping that there might be some relief in sight for the bumper crop of billboards on Nutmegger highways, the Courant reports:
Rell wants to ban billboards on state-owned land, calling them unsightly, and said their proliferation will clutter the state’s historical and natural landscape. But her companion bill to her executive order died Friday when it never came up for a vote in the transportation committee.
Sen. Donald DeFronzo, the co-chairman of the joint House-Senate committee, said lawmakers hope their bill, approved 27-3, will end the acrimony that has developed since Rell issued the order last month. It calls for creating a new commission on outdoor advertising to study issues relating to billboards in Connecticut.
You’d think that in a state where the legislature says that it is concerned about distracted driving, the legislators would be all over any chance to reduce the number of distractions encountered on the roads.