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Say, we haven't had a good laugh over a bus stuck on Storrow Drive recently
By adamg on Fri, 02/21/2014 - 6:29pm
Roving UHub photographer Adam Schnabel wasn't roving all that quickly around 5:55 p.m. today, thanks to the driver of the bus who at least managed not to get storrowed on the BU Bridge just up ahead.
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I have to wonder if the driver
would have gotten this far if the clearance measurement was actually posted on the "LOW CLEARANCE" signs over the entrance ramps to S(t)orrow Drive. Given that he stopped just after the real Low Clearance sign seen in the photo, but well short of the bridge itself, I'd wager he wouldn't have.
And, once again, those non-reflective yellow on black "Cars Only" rubber
baby buggy bumperspanels sure did their job. Perhaps it's time to once and for all give up this "but it's an aesthetic parkway" nonsense and actually put up REAL traffic signs instead.CARS OLNY!
CARS OLNY!!!
Reading Comprehension
If one can not read and understand a sign that is as simple as "CARS ONLY" it is hard to imagine one reading and understanding one that says "Clearance *FT*IN".
Even a system as blatant and amazing as this one doesn't always work:
http://www.theatlanticcities.com/design/2013/05/wildly-futuristic-stop-s...
Whoa! That water curtain is
Whoa! That water curtain is amazingly cool. We should totally have that on Storrow. You say it doesn't always work: you have links to incidents where people drove through 8" tall, glowing stop signs suddenly appearing across the middle of their lanes?
Bus misadventures
on Storrow Drive are part and parcel to any decent February college tour through Boston.