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Moving billboards ‘deadly’The Sun-HeraldSunday 14 July 2002 |
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SCROLLING billboards on the footpaths of city streets should be banned, a road safety campaigner has said. Harold Scruby, chairman of the Pedestrian Council of Australia, said J C Decaux's decision to turn static billboards into rolling adverts would create a lethal road hazard. “How many drivers will take their eyes off the road to watch the moving billboard” he asked. Decaux has claimed “two-thirds of people look towards a site when it scrolls, drawn by the movement and of those two-thirds, nearly 100 per cent go on to look at the following panel”. |
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