These just went up.
The fliers are on telephone poles all along Roosevelt Avenue. The one in the photo is across the street from Turkey Hill near the intersection of Roosevelt and Maryland avenues.
I know very little Spanish, so my colleague Jennifer Vogelsong translated for me. Basically, this person is offering to buy plane tickets, send packages and pay bills for people.
Two questions: Are you allowed to advertise on telephone poles, and can't people with limited English get help with this stuff for free though outreach groups?
According to a borough web site:
Signs on Utility Poles
Posting signs on utility poles is illegal and unsafe. This includes signs advertising businesses, products or services as well as 'For Sale' or 'For Rent' and election signs and signs for yard sales or festivals. Pennsylvania law prohibits the use of any metal or hard substances such as nails, tacks, staples or metal fasteners for attachments to utility poles unless these attachments have been reviewed by engineering and an attachment agreement prepared and signed by all parties involved. A person is guilty of a summary offense if he drives a nail or hard substance to or into any pole of any public utility pole line. Exceptions does not apply to: (1) the public utility or its licensee using the poles from affixing its metal or other markers or from otherwise using the poles in its public service or (2) the erecting traffic signs and other signs similar thereto by a municipality when authorized by statute or by the owner of such poles.
Thanks.
I often wonder about stuff like this. Not trying to be negative or a jerk. I just am a wonkish sort that finds these sorts of things interesting.