Superboxes: The End Of Sidewalk Newspaper Dispensers?

"The newspaper box, a fixture on street corners for decades, has come under fire in some of Canada's biggest urban centres. Officials in Vancouver and Toronto are moving toward introducing a new brand of newspaper superbox -- capable of housing several publications in one large vending machine -- in an effort to clean up street clutter.

Several U.S. cities have adopted similar boxes, including Chicago and San Francisco, where a consortium of publications including the San Francisco Chronicle and Los Angeles Times went to court to stop the city, but lost in 2002. In Toronto, where city officials say they are also concerned about too many boxes cluttering city streets, the matter may also be heading to court."