You can’t make this stuff up.
When did Times Square get listed as a highway?
Without all the glitch, glitter and oversized billboards, Times Square is just another intersection.
I’m sure they will get a waiver...no less grievous in the big picture. Welcome to the end of Atlas Shrugged.
I would be very surprised and disappointed if New Yorkers let this happen. Those billboards and displays are part of what I hope to see if I ever get to travel to New York City.
All this time, I thought it would take a round of terrorism to ruin and remove some of our national icons.
Take the King’s shilling...
There’s a delightful aspect to this: New York City forced to experience that which they foist on the rest of us. At the same time, and even as a conservative, I agree with Ladybird on this: are there ANY limits to “advertising space?” Must EVERYONE’S view be destroyed at any moment by someone with more money?
Is nothing sacred?
The Feds are almost as bad as ISIS.. Smashing institutions..
And leaving no doubt , how truly blind they are..
This is great. I hope they really get pissed off at Obama.
Good. Hopefully the accumulation of Team Valerie’s excesses and destruction of liberty and states rights will have a Chinese torture effect on the New York psyche—in reverse.
May the population finally awaken to the TRUTH that a federal government as Nanny is not an appropriate role.
The head of DOT last name is FOXX ... you decide ...
Where’s their next target?
The Las Vegas Strip?
LOL
Does this include the ball that drops at new years?
The Uncle Sam I knew must be tied up and locked in a basement somewhere. This is not your auntie’s uncle.
As a native NYer, I hate the fact that Times Square looks like Tokyo. My brother always sighs: “Mr. Potter won.” In the 50s and 60s and 70s, it was in human scale and still had the most fabulous advertising in America. I don’t support government interference though but would love a sensible return to Times Square - which means: Disney Store, get out!
This is another 17th Amendment-related issue imo.
"Supposedly, a 2012 law put the crossroads of the world under the restrictions of the 1965 Highway Beautification Act ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for any kind of roads but postal roads (1.8.7). This is evidenced by President James Madison’s veto of the public works bill of 1817, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution.
Veto of federal public works bill
And with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Eisenhower, as opposed to Madison’s veto of the public works bill, Eisenhower was wrong to sign the bill that established the nation’s intrastate highway system, just a modern version of the publics works bill, without first leading Congress to successfully petition the states for a highway amendment to the Constitution. But Eisenhower wasn’t the first constitutional firewall that was compromised regarding his national highway system.
Getting back to the 17th Amendment, please consider the following. The Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to vote for federal senators uniquely to state lawmakers. The idea was that senators would protect their states in Congress by killing bills that steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers, such as the power to regulate, tax and spend for highways.
So before Eisenhower even got the bill the Senate should have recognized that the feds have no constitutional authority to build a national highway system and led Congress to petition the states for a highway amendment to the Constitution. I suspect that the states would have supported such an amendment.
But as a consequence of 17A, low-information citizens go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, clueless that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills, such as vote-winning bills to build highways, such bills based on powers which the states have never delegated to the feds as previously mentioned.
As a further consequence of all of this, the feds are once again unconstitutionally expanding their powers by regulating billboards on Times’s Square. In fact, regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor in 1942 imo, FDR’s thug justices wrongly ignored the following. They ignored that state sovereignty-respecting justices had previously clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt senators along with it.