Just caught a piece of rage-inducing news: a Washington State House bill proposing
selling naming rights to elements of public transportation to raise money. As he almost always does, I think Goldy
says it best:
Personally, I'm opposed to selling the naming rights on state bridges and highways because I think it cheapens the commons and
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By contrast, stadium rights pervade outside our area. Every ball game is broadcast with commentators; every commentator is required to proudly name the stadium (without snark). The stadium's name might not be popular to the locals, but increasingly sports broadcast has made even modest local games the subject of regional, national or even international broadcasts.
Even if every branch of a naming company were to close in the area surrounding the stadium, the naming rights would continue to do their work. A vinyl-wrapped train or bus, by contrast, only offends those who can see it, and only for a few weeks.
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Well I use public transport all the time, it's everywhere in the city even when I don't use it, and I see it alot.
But it doesn't bother me either really.
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Actually, this point came up about a year ago with a local atheist bus ad campaign. Some of the drivers were threatening to not drive the offending coaches. One guy made the mistake of saying so in my earshot.
"Yes!" I said, "you should totally do that. If you do and get a new coach, I then get to refuse to drive all the [blankity-blank] Christer church bullshit buses. So, yeah, go complain!"
The next day, a memo was circulated telling all of us to shut the hell up and just drive the bus.
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