Regional Transportation District directors voted Tuesday night to ban the bright wrap-around advertisements that partially block views out windows on metro Denver buses and trains , resolving to give riders the same chance to see their surroundings as people in cars and make public transportation more appealing.

The prohibition means losing revenue at a time when the agency is grappling with financial constraints. RTD officials calculated that window-blocking ads brought in $786,000 between April and September this year, representing 42% of total ad revenue during that period.

Thousands of tiny holes, each half the size of a frozen pea, spread across RTD’s adhesive vinyl ad wraps allow riders enough visibility to know whether they’re nearing stops, but the ads obscure landscapes and p

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