Yesterday morning, the MTA's executive management and audit committee headed by Chairman Antonio Villaraigosa endorsed opening up practically every flat exterior surface on subways, light rail, buses, metro stops and stations to ads. (I was there for reasons not related this item, but was irritated anyhow.) Currently, only buses and metro interiors can have ads, not to mention the annoying TVs. Under the proposed plan the Orange Line can be wrapped in big ads, the stations can be saturated with ads, even subway tunnels can sport advertising.

At most, this will bring in a few million. Seems like a high price to pay for the further uglification of L.A.