let them be art (Score 1)

We could do with the payphone boxes what the Albanians have done with the hundreds of concrete-and-steel bunkers that former dictator Enver Hoxha littered all over the countryside (including the beaches). Make them works of art. People have painted flowers, murals, etc. on them, and have converted them from laughingstock outhouses into artworks. Payphone boxes, protecting their own insides from the elements, could be filled with art, murals, essays, community events, ads, etc. Maybe even an old-fashioned "speaker's corner," where free speech is encouraged on issues of the day. Post your paper.