Anti-car pranksters have struck again, this time hacking variable roadside sign in Denver with a simple but memorable message: “Cars Ruin Cities.”
Last Friday, an anonymous vandal hijacked two billboards in the Mile-High City that are usually devoted to announcing things like traffic delays, reminding state lawmakers and the traveling public alike that they are the traffic so many of them keep complaining about – but they could be a part of the solution, if just they got out of their cars and took another mode instead.
The Denver Gazette pointed out that one of those messages was stationed near the Colorado Capitol, and that both altered signs appeared the same night as a live recording of “The War on Cars” podcast…