[Vince Ferrer]

I am ambivalent about the cellphone towers. Are we so helpless in the cell phone era that we can’t be expected to put emergency equipment in our cars when driving in rural areas the winter?

[speekinout]

I am also ambivalent about them. I’ve heard people argue for putting them in park recreational areas as well. Once we start going down that path, there’s no end to it.

Why not just move everyone to satellite based communications? Then there wouldn’t have to be any “dead zones”.

[knarf]

With the technology we have today, I see no reason why a tower couldn't be manufactured that resembles and blends into the area it is erected .... a tall, dead pine with an eagle's nest in it, f'rinstance.

Just as we must accept the global economy, we also should accept the number of cell phones and users in any part of the country.

Especially any place that is so remote (like the one mentioned) that a passing motorist would not see that there had been an accident and someone's life might be in danger.

I mean ... look at the friggin' artificial Christmas trees that are on display in any store that sells them.

[Mr_Moonlight]

Are we so helpless in the cell phone era that we can’t be expected to put emergency equipment in our cars when driving in rural areas the winter?

This stretch of roadway is a major commercial and motorist thoroughfare between the US (New York State) and Canada (Quebec). it is located within a snowbelt. If one swerves off the roadway and into a deep ditch during a snowstorm, and nobody can see it, having cell-phone access can be the difference between life and death, as it was in this case.

[Age of Reason]

Are we so helpless in the cell phone era that we can’t be expected to put emergency equipment in our cars when driving in rural areas the winter?

Not to mention that the easier/safer you make it for people to invade an area, the more they will invade it.

This eventually results in major changes to that area (for the most part, for the worse).