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Pedmounts on the Horizon in New York City?

By AAN Staff
july 29, 2003  03:06 pm
Pedmounts on the Horizon in New York City?
The news rack situation in the Big Apple may go from bad to worse, according to Matt Taibbi. The city recently began enforcing a hodgepodge of new regulations governing the use and placement of news racks, and citations are already piling up: New York Press received dozens within a few weeks, and USA Today reports that about 20 percent of its racks have already been ticketed. Meanwhile, Mayor Bloomberg is pursuing a street-furniture proposal that may reward Clear Channel or JCDecaux with a lucrative contract to replace proprietary news racks with city-mandated pedmounts.
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