VISAKHAPATNAM: Recent newspaper reports on GVMC's plans to appoint an external agency to handle their billboard tax collection are quite alarming. Here is why: Billboards hinder pedestrians Our cities have no pavements and very little open space in commercial areas where billboards can be accommodated. Pedestrians struggle to walk even 10 feet on Vizag city pavements because they are so rare and when available they are interrupted by missing death trap slabs, electrical poles, open electric switch boxes and the ubiquitous panipuri and noodle vendor. Billboards spawn businesses below Drawn by the structure of the board, billboards soon become an attraction for myriad street vendors. Before...
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