Increasing public awareness of the value public telephones is a losing game.
Technology fetishism is incorrigible.
Smartphone owners will wait long hours to access a power outlet where they can recharge their $700 telephone before deigning to deposit 25¢ into a public telephone to make a telephone call.
I gave up evangelizing public pay telephones years ago on account of the ridicule I received for my interest in the matter.
Nowadays there is a photographically moribund interest in the subject, an interest to which I have submitted since 1990-something.
Have you been laughed at and waved away and called names to your face and on radio and television networks for your advocacy of something that means nothing to constituencies of yourself or your… constituents?
With no money at stake do you lack lobbyists?
With no money at stake do you lack access to Monday morning Tweets?
