Some OC Boardwalk trams flashing in-house city ads

By Mallory Panuska Managing Editor

(Aug. 18, 2023) Digital video screens on four out of the Boardwalk's seven functioning trams are now flashing in-house city advertisements after months of waiting for the new technology.

However, with no revenue coming in from commercial advertisers and three of the screens still displaying error messages, the new program is still not where members of the city’s

Transportation Committee want it to be.

“Tell [the ad contractor] we’d like to see some ads on there next week. That will sell the program,” Mayor Rick Meehan, who chairs the committee, said at a meeting Tuesday.

The city signed a contract late last year with Gateway Outdoor Advertising to market and sell ads on resort buses and trams. While the company got off to a slow start, Transit Man-

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