New Train Billboards For Your Consumption

If the MTA was looking for a way to raise funding AND uglify their trains, I think they may have succeeded.

Today the Gold Line Trains started sporting advertising for the first time. Not in a small way, not on the inside, or with a small decal in the window of the train, no, but very obnoxiously pasted in orange all over the side of the trains. This is the first advertising of any kind that I can remember being on the Gold Line since it started running in 2003. Sure, buses have adds through out the inside and sometimes buses are completely covered in a vinyl skin with some advertising like for a film or TV show. But the Gold Line carried nothing. Not even posters inside for anything other that MTA commission artwork, safety notices, or maps.

A great deal for advertisers! Where else, can you put your product in a highly visable place with bells, buzzers, and air horns, and have cars and people yield to you? The perfect captive audience.

So what did the people who live along the Gold Line do to deserve this new addition to visual blight? And how does this comply with Los Angeles city ordnances prohibiting such overt advertising? And how can these trains be liberated???

Complain Here.