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[Lili]

Originally Posted by bustero

handpainted billboards di na uso. too expensive not as nice.

So these handpainted billboards are really a dying art. Sana kahit sa Recto or Quiapo, meron pa rin.

[thomasian]

Dapat may government agency na nagko-control ng pagtatayo ng mga billboards. Delikado na minsan eh, kung hindi tao ang nababagsakan, kotse, minsan bahay, pero ang mas malala pati MRT nabagsakan kailan lang.

Pasaway na talaga ang mga billboards natin.

Eto, nakita ko sa blog ni Yoki.

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...as i was traversing diosdado macapagal avenue on the way to help my dad who will be doing lipat-bahay for my nurse friend, cielo, (that's another story: she was almost hog-tied massacared last thursday)... a huge billboard fell in front of me, missing my car by the hair.
yes, BILLBOARD! it was the billboard of Hobbies of Asia, with the chicken wire fence falling with it. and of all cars... my car and with me driving. what are the chances of having a billboard crashing down on you... imagine the horror in front of me,seeing the huge crashing billboard. i thought it fell on my windshield. i swerved to the left but my front tire ran over the steel supports causing my right front tire to burst and on close inspection, even my mag wheels got pierced to the center.... how lucky can i get. i'm just too tired to write.









YEP... THIS PIERCED MY TIRE AND MAGS... AND MY MUFFLER AS WELL...

everything in less than 24 hours... iba ka pag yoki ang name mo... bugbog sarado

hey can anyone see a huge "HIT ME!" SIGN ON MY FOREHEAD... i might have missed reading it, or was it written somewhere on my back... whew--- life...

[tigidig14]

[Lili]

It was bound to happen. I'm amazed that Yoki guy can just laugh about it. That was dangerous. It could've caused him his life or others.

[bagel]

I'm glad you weren't hurt. I don't want to seem litigious but maybe you should try to contact the billboard company owners and at least ask for compensation for your front tire. These things don't grow on trees. And if you were hurt, the billboard owner would have to be responsible for your well-being.

Edit: Oh I misunderstood. Yoki could've been hurt. Not only do we need to control where these billboards are located, but we also need to have real safety standards. Everytime I drive on Edsa by Guadalupe and I look at those super-tall billboards, I'm always afraid that a freak gust of wind would blow them down on the motorists below. I hope there are safety standards there.

[ryanr]

Senate, mayors’ council tackle billboard blight
By Marvin Sy and Michael Punongbayan
The Philippine Star 10/07/2005

Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago said yesterday she would ask President Arroyo to certify as urgent the proposed Anti-Billboard Blight bill, citing the danger this form of advertising poses to life and property.

As this developed, mayors of Metro Manila finally agreed to form a technical working group that will look into issues and concerns on billboards along major thoroughfares like EDSA and determine how they can be regulated.

The Senate hearing on the proposed Anti-Billboard Blight bill pushed through as scheduled yesterday although no Cabinet member showed up during the inquiry.

"Susulat ako kay Pangulong Arroyo at kay Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita. Napakalakas ng aking sentimiento kaya I will take the extraordinary step of requesting Malacañang to certify this bill as an urgent measure," Santiago said.

The senator said she was hoping to sponsor the bill before the plenary by the end of the month.

Absent during the hearing were Public Works and Highways Secretary Hermogenes Ebdane Jr., Interior and Local Government Secretary Angelo Reyes, Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez and Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza.

Ebdane, Fernando and Reyes sent representatives. Joining them were representatives of the city governments of Makati and Quezon City.

Santiago said there was a need to limit the placement of billboards because they obstruct the scenery, block the view of motorists and pose dangers to life and property.

Senator Bong Revilla, chairman of the committee on public works, said the speedy passage of the bill would finally settle the issue of what agency was in charge of overseeing and regulating billboards.

"An anti-billboard bill with a national scope, but locally guided would augur well for the LGUs. We need general guidelines," Revilla said.

During the hearing, Consuelo Sison, of the QC Homeowners Association, objected to the "uglification of the metropolis caused by the proliferation of billboards in Metro Manila."

However, Frank Abueva, of the Outdoor Advertising Association of the Philippines (OAAP), put the blame on the lack of political will to ensure that billboards are regulated.

Abueva urged Santiago to create a technical working group to study the bill.

He pointed out that billboards have helped in increasing local and national revenue because the use of billboards — an alternative to the tri-media advertising — has grown into a multi-million industry.

Last Sept. 23, Santiago reiterated her call to regulate and punish owners and clients of billboard advertising offices after a billboard tarpaulin fell on a the power cable of an MRT-3 train in Cubao, causing an eight-hour disruption of service.

Santiago noted that Metro Manila mayors have enough powers under the Civil Code and the National Building Code to regulate and even ban certain billboards.

The senator chairs a subcommittee on billboards and signages under the public works committee.

"It is time to be tough on dangerous billboards. I will urge the justice secretary to move for the lifting of the preliminary injunction against billboard removal," she said.
End to confusion
Local chief executives who attended a special meeting with MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando yesterday said they believe a study of the dangers and other effects of commercial and advertising materials along major thoroughfares should be conducted.

The Metro Mayors’ Council (MMC) voted to form a body that will look into the problem so they can come up with plans and proposals on how specific concerns can be addressed.

Fernando said advertising companies and their contractors have been taking advantage of the "confusion" and "conflict" between the MMDA and local government units over the rules on putting up billboards.

"If we don’t act on this immediately, our streets will be full of billboards. And we’ve learned that many of these billboards have no permits," Fernando said.

Fernando said the technical working group, composed of representatives from Metro Manila’s cities and municipalities and the MMDA, would be given 45 days to study and assess the problem.

At present, local government units have authority over the issuance of construction permits and actual erection of billboards in public places.

Local officials from respective engineering departments are also the ones tasked to monitor and ensure that safety standards are followed.

Collapsing billboards and torn tarpaulins have become a major MMDA concern after the MRT incident in Cubao.

[bustero]

What Yoki hit was not a billboard per se but signage. That's probably not covered by the city engineers office in the same way.

Definitely there are standards. In fact the structural consideration for these things is the same as billboards, in other words the engineer has the same culpability and responsibility for the the collapsed billboard on edsa and the collapsed building in Binondo.

[kiretoce]

Bump!

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41% of Pinoys think news in RP media "purely negative."
The Philippine Star 10/27/2005

Nearly half of Filipinos are critical of the Philippine media, saying that most of the news reported is negative and counterproductive, according to an opinion survey.

Forty-one percent of 1,200 surveyed nationwide by respected pollster Social Weather Stations (SWS) agreed that "often, news on television, on radio and in newspapers (is) purely negative and… no longer helping the country," while 29 percent disagreed. Twenty-eight percent were undecided.

Metro Manila — where most media organizations in the country are based — is the most critical, with 47 percent reporting its effects to be negative, followed by the rest of Luzon with 44 percent.

Thirty-three percent and 38 percent of Filipinos in the Visayas and Mindanao, respectively, gave critical responses in the survey.

SWS deputy manager Gerardo Sandoval said the opinion survey question was a so-called "rider question" posed by AMA Education System and was included in the SWS’ quarterly polling.

"We have included some items from AMA in our regular third quarter SWS survey report," he said.

Sandoval said they included nine questions from AMA in their August 26 to September 5 survey. He could not cite the poll questions in detail.

AMA is owned by special envoy Amable Aguiluz, an adviser of President Arroyo.

Johnny Ramos, AMA Education System vice president, said his company is a subscriber to SWS and they asked the survey firm to include some of the group’s questions in the latest SWS poll.

"Normally, our surveys refer to institutions, our understanding of the community and we also have rider questions to understand the political or economic climate in the country," Ramos told The STAR.

Ramos denied the questions were meant to help the Arroyo administration counter opposition-led moves to force the President from office over allegations that she cheated in last year’s presidential election.

"I don’t think so. We do this quarterly on economic, political questions but I don’t think this is related to that," he said.

In a separate statement, AMA explained that part of its subscription contract with SWS "allows it to generate specific survey items dealing with the technology-education industry and with the political climate."

In the same statement, AMA disclosed that the SWS survey found that 37 percent of Filipinos believe that "the opposition does not have a clear plan for the country. Its only objective is to bring down the current administration."

Twenty-eight percent disagreed with this statement while 31 percent were undecided.

[sugarboy]

[slerz]

I like the 2nd to the last Sugarboy.....................................that ^ billboard...LoL

[thomasian]

Anong sabi dun sa billboard ng Sogo sa last pic? Free ___ Parking?
Pasaway talaga mga powerlines oh.

[kiretoce]

I'm guessing it says: "Free Garage Parking."

[thomasian]

You mean parang regular room yung rate pero in-upgrade nila sa Garage room for the same price?

[slerz]

Originally Posted by kiretoce

I'm guessing it says: "Free Garage Parking."

Yup, exactly... free parking for my shoes... thats what I mean...

[tigidig14]

Originally Posted by thomasian

Dapat may government agency na nagko-control ng pagtatayo ng mga billboards. Delikado na minsan eh, kung hindi tao ang nababagsakan, kotse, minsan bahay, pero ang mas malala pati MRT nabagsakan kailan lang.

Pasaway na talaga ang mga billboards natin.

Eto, nakita ko sa blog ni Yoki.

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...as i was traversing diosdado macapagal avenue on the way to help my dad who will be doing lipat-bahay for my nurse friend, cielo, (that's another story: she was almost hog-tied massacared last thursday)... a huge billboard fell in front of me, missing my car by the hair.
yes, BILLBOARD! it was the billboard of Hobbies of Asia, with the chicken wire fence falling with it. and of all cars... my car and with me driving. what are the chances of having a billboard crashing down on you... imagine the horror in front of me,seeing the huge crashing billboard. i thought it fell on my windshield. i swerved to the left but my front tire ran over the steel supports causing my right front tire to burst and on close inspection, even my mag wheels got pierced to the center.... how lucky can i get. i'm just too tired to write.









YEP... THIS PIERCED MY TIRE AND MAGS... AND MY MUFFLER AS WELL...

everything in less than 24 hours... iba ka pag yoki ang name mo... bugbog sarado

hey can anyone see a huge "HIT ME!" SIGN ON MY FOREHEAD... i might have missed reading it, or was it written somewhere on my back... whew--- life...

AND MY MUFFLER AS WELL...
this thing always making me laugh, sorry aaron

[bustero]

The largest billboard in the Philippines stares at me everyday. The whole side of ASB twin towers infront of SM megamall has been covered by this really big board you can see for kilometers around. It's freaky. Pang halloween. When you walk around at night it's floating there earily because it stands out as the brightest thing at night in the area. Background with the night sky, quite a sight to see actually. It's not a billboard per se as it's an announcement for the st. francis square tiange. Pretty good Ad must be at least 300 feet tall.

[Lili]

^ Picture please.

[pau_p1]

here's the billboard bustero is saying...i could see this every night from my window...

[slerz]

Originally Posted by pau_p1

here's the billboard bustero is saying...i could see this every night from my window...

oh! kinda scary specially when there's a storm...

[bustero]

Man you should see this , this thing is so huge and ang liwanag , di ba Pau Pi, Parang Multo nagflofloat sa kadiliman.