Crosswalk shouldn’t be used for advertising

By Letter to the Editor on September 21, 2018.

Medicine Hat’s crosswalks can be some of the most dangerous places to navigate in our small city. Both for pedestrians as well as drivers. So what kind of people would come up with the idea to use our crosswalks as a platform for advertising? Surely there are more safer ways to advertise in our high-tech social media platforms, etc. And it is the pedestrians who wear ear phones, and are constantly texting, along with the drivers using their cellphones, that have made our crosswalks so much more dangerous.

So why would an institution that prides itself on a safe environment for learning be part of a promotion for such foolishness on the front page of the Medicine Hat News? And why would the News put this story on the front page? Why is this story so important when its promoters only constitute less than two per cent of the Canadian population?

Is this what President Trump refers to as fake news? The Medicine Hat News advertises that it doesn’t print fake news. So what is going on here? Whatever it is, it’s madness. Yes, the world has gone mad.

John Stanley

Medicine Hat

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