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First day dawns quietly over Comm. Ave.
By adamg on Wed, 01/01/2014 - 11:22am
Daniel Guzman watched the day get brighter from the WBUR studios high atop Comm. Ave.
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Wire?
What is that white thing that looks like a drooping wire? IS it a drooping wire?
(It's a real nice photo, but that bit puzzles me.)
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Could be a Eruv.....
What is a Eruv you ask?
A very interesting story that I bet many Bostonians do not know about.....
http://www.bostoneruv.org/history.htm
Not sure it is
I don't think the Boston eruv crosses Comm Ave at that point. It used to run up over the foot of the BU bridge and then down along the fence along the Turnpike heading west, and down to the fence along Storrow Drive heading east. If it runs along the south side of Commonwealth Ave at this point, it's a recent-ish change.
If I get over there later, I'll look to see if there are any lechim attached to the light poles (black plastic strips which denote which poles are used as boundary fixtures for the eruv).
Probably not
Well, the rope wouldn't be the eruv itself, but one of the boundaries of the eruv runs right along there. I thought the boundary was more over to the eastern side of Comm Ave over there though, so that the whole street was inside the eruv. It looks like it on the map, and it isn't listed as one of the streets where it says one can only walk on one side of the street, so I would assume that both sidewalks are part of the eruv.
Looks like..
Looks like a lazy way to fix a light pole (rather than bury the line). I see this alot all around town..
Anyone notice that there's at least four different light post styles in that photo?
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No really, the city has several versions since poles can last up to a century and the state uses different lamp poles on it's property at the bridge intersection too.
Agreed
I'm pretty sure it's just the power cable from one street light being run to an adjacent streetlight. Very common around the Fenway area. The wires always look sketchy and hacked as the cement poles aren't designed to have cables strung between the tops like a telephone pole so the wire tension can't be too high and the wires droop.
I think what happens is that the buried power cable gets cut and instead of re-running it they just tie to a nearby pole.
fyi
They just pulled body out of the harbor by ccastleisland 145 pm
sniff
makes me all teary eyed. Now if only someone posted a pic of a cold winter dawn over Allston, I'd have to grab the tissues. Something about winter makes me sentimental.