A new bill in the state Senate [[SB 953, Sen. Casperson) would allow billboard operators to remove vegetation and trees from road medians, to expose billboards on the left-side of freeways. [[At present, billboard owners can cut trees between the right edge of the road and their signs.) A provision in the bill would apply explicitly to 8 Mile, and allow removal of all the trees in the median for 500 feet downstream from any billboard on the left side of M-102. Many of the signs on 8 Mile are two-sided, but the backward-facing ones are obscured by the trees growing in the median.
The bill gets a hearing in the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday the 26th. Will anybody miss this greenery if this bill passes?