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This nonsense with the road bureaucrats stops here, now

Look, you can change the path of Rte. 1 so it no longer goes down the VFW Parkway, leading us to wonder how to tell people where the Dedham Mall used to be.

But now Channel 5 is running a poll to see if traffic reporters should start calling the highway between I-95 and the Braintree split I-93 instead of Rte. 128.

Listen, Cindy and Jeff: Leave it be! And dagnabbit, part of the fun of being a Boston driver is heading south on 128 and north on 93 at the same time. Newcomers get confused? Hey, newcomers don't know how to pronounce "Copley" or "Tremont," either, but they learn. So knock it off, 'kay?

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My $.02

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Uh..."Tremont" I know, but how many different pronunciations can there be for "Copley"?

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The right way and Cope-lee. You'd be surprised how many newcomers pronounce it that way.

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But...then it would have to be spelled "Copely" and it's not and...

I think too much about these things, don't I?

I'm in favor of calling it Copley-BPL, pronounced "Copley Bipple".

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Most of them can't even pronounce Worcester, Billerica, or Concord correctly.

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