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Asian Longhorned Beetles on the Orange Line
By adamg on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 5:40pm
Jeepers, creepers
The USDA wasted little time getting ads up on the Orange Line, which starts (or ends) right in the middle of Beetleville (anybody know about buses out of Forest Hills?). UPDATE: Actually, they started running this campaign last year, but ye ed was blissfully unaware of it until a couple days ago. See the comments for more.
Meanwhile, the city, state and feds are holding an open house this Saturday, 10 a.m. to noon at Jamaica Plain's Curtis Hall to get residents in the Beetle Zone the information they need on how to spot any infestation and how to dispose of branches, stumps and other woody stuff for the next, oh, four years or so.
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Comments
The MBTA should some g-d
The MBTA should some g-d respect for people who have to ride the s-h that is the Orange Line.
Bug images like that can bother even people with normal human aversions to bugs, and other people will be freaking out.
How many hands did that pass through before it ended up in the cars, and *nobody* said waitaminute...
Or...
You could, you know, grow up.
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Terrifying
Not the bugs - those are cool.
I think the entire system should be on alert to prevent bad taste psychadelic sperm ads and horrifically laid out "turn the page" ads, let alone those specious "if you wear comfortable shoes you are a loser" cambridge college ads. They all make me, personally, break out in a rash. Quite triggering.
The nerve of those people!
I like the KEEP HANDS CLEAR
I like the KEEP HANDS CLEAR right there.
Green line too
I also spotted an ad at Government Center (green line outbound) today.
Red Line too
Saw them at South Station inbound as well...
Blue Line has then as well,
Blue Line has then as well, including some in Spanish
Yeah, as a subway rider in
Yeah, as a subway rider in town in Boston, I'll be sure to look out for beetles in nonexistent trees from my apartment.
Is this really a good use of advertising and inflicting it upon second-class citizen T riders? Why not target property-owners in cars, through radio and highway billboards.
Leave the T ads to announce the domestic violence awareness, English language training, alcohol, and paid medical research subject gigs that are of more relevance.
Property owners do take the T
How do you think I got that photo?
Just sign me,
Roslindale home owner
The quarter of a mile around
The quarter of a mile around my house has lots of trees and we have a bus that runs to Wellington Station which is an orange line stop. If you look around Greater Boston there are many apartments that are in areas with trees. We are also in an age where if certain streets are lacking trees city officials and others push for them to be planted. People were very excited when my city got a Tree City USA designation for the first time earlier in the decade. The last thing you want is for these beetles to kill existing trees in any area and/or compromise tree planting operations in others. An ounce of prevention costs less then a pound of the cure.
T Rider Living Next to the Fells Here
I've seen the ads, as have my kids. They also ran them on the outside of buses.
I can see the Pru and Hancock from my dining room, and I take the bus to the Orange Line or Red Line when I don't bike, but I have millions of trees near my home and every little bit of vigilance helps. Also, how many T riders spend their weekends in the Blue Hills or the Fells or other recreational destinations in the area?
orange line
Hopefully the beetles will eat all that faux wood-paneling they use to decorate the inside of the train cars.
This is actually a
This is actually a multi-year, multi-state advertising campaign that started in 2009. Similar posters were up on the T and commuter rail last summer. They have billboards up around the state too.
Personally, I would rather look at this ad then, say, that lawyer ad where someone nearly always has cruelly vandalized the teeth of that poor female lawyer in the front of the group...
Up in Bangor last year....
... at their folk festival, they had people (some in "costume") handing out info on these pests.
I had no idea about it either until
yesterday, when my son said, smiling, "for pictures, text beetle to 39044". He thought it was funny, and my wife explained where he saw it. Frequent T-riders, they hadn't remarked on it before then, so I assume the campaign has been stepped up.
I saw this ad on the redline
I saw this ad on the redline in Spanish.