Political Signs article

The Patriot-News printed an article "Time o' the signs" on page 1 on Monday May 5, 2008, following PA's April 22 Primary. The focus of their article was on the free speech aspect of political signs, which I guess would naturally be a reporter's preferred slant, but in my opinion (of course) that's not the main problem with these signs. So they wasted the first 3/4 of the story ranting about how government can't enforce time restrictions on front yard political signs, before finally touching on the problem of signs in the public right of way near the end of the article.

"Lower Swatara does enforce provisions regulating signs placed in the public right of way, which Linn said can be a traffic hazard and can damage the township's mowers. Those restrictions are legal, Burch said, as long as they are applied to all signs, political or not."

I would estimate that for every 1 private front yard sign negligently left up after the election, there were 100 illegally-placed political signs choking the highways, roadsides, and intersections during the election. It's a terrible and pointless mess, twice a year, for 2 months at a time. Our community would be far more pleasant if right of way restrictions were enforced, and sign placement was actually limited to people's private yards only, set back from the roadway so as not to interfere with traffic sight-lines.