State transportation officials say the following three messages, which will start showing up on electronic signboards on our highways, are the best possible messages of the 500 or so submitted by the motoring public after the roll out of those Use yah blinkah signs back in May:
Road Rage Winner (August 15-18 - a top 10 travel weekend based on 2013 toll data)
"Keep Calm and Drive On" submitted by Patrick Casey, of Allston, MADistracted Driving Winner (Labor Day Weekend)
"Put down the phone! Your LOLs and OMGs can wait." Submitted by Justin Lovell, of Whitman, MASeatbelt Use Winner (Columbus Day Weekend)
"Make yah Ma proud, wear yah seatbelt" submitted by The Parent's Supervised Driving Program team of Safe Roads Alliance
Boston Magazine has a list of some of the losahs, some of which, to be honest, we think are better, but then, we don't run a statewide network of highways.
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The first one is so bland and
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 11:44am
The first one is so bland and unoriginal.
I'm astounded that this is
By MR VEGAS
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 2:56pm
I'm astounded that this is even still a "thing". The first time I saw it, it seemed interesting, the second time less so, and four years later it's still fucking EVERYWHERE
Actually
By Claudia
Fri, 08/15/2014 - 4:37pm
It dates back to World War II. It's a classic.
Not bland and unoriginal
By Dave
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 5:48pm
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Thought of this one too late
By Stevil
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 11:49am
Left lane is for wicked passahs only!
#2 sounds like a middle-aged dad.
By ChrisInEastie
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 11:52am
A simple "OMG, put down the phone" would work.
And would also fit better
By roadman
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 11:53am
Especially on some of the smaller ground-mounted message signs out there.
Oh hooray..
By anon
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 1:04pm
A "Keep Calm" entry.
Will definitely help save lives of drivers in 2010. A+++, would meme again.
Really?
By Kaz
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 2:50pm
I thought the point was to emulate the use of Boston English...one of those is just a British meme (Keep calm and XYZ on).
My ideas weren't all winners, but they were better than the winners.
Fixed?
By ChrisInEastie
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 3:37pm
Keep cahm and drive ahn.
Intentionally bland?
By dga
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 3:49pm
Consider how many people dangerously pulled out their phone to snap an Instagram of the USE YAH BLINKAH message. "Clever signs sink ships", or something like that.
They got Columbus Day weekend right
By anon
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 4:21pm
If it was for Paddy's day it would say:
""Make yah Mum proud, wear yah seatbelt"
Y'know what? I'd just as soon see NO signboards
By DerekLessing
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 4:51pm
...that at best are mildly amusing, but give no useful information. Drivers have enough distractions. Also, these damn kids need to get off my lawn.
I was driving down 95 this morning and saw a Keep Calm one
By Nancy
Fri, 08/15/2014 - 10:56am
I almost veered out of my lane because I was cringing.
One thing I do like very much are the signs that tell me how long it will take me to get somewhere.
For example,
Exit 20
5 miles
34 minutes.
Those boards are the best thing I've seen in my travels in a long time.
Imagine...
By Kaz
Fri, 08/15/2014 - 1:51pm
Imagine if we could do that on the Green Line! Oh, won't the future of technology be grand!
They do, but only at Kenmore
By gotdatwmd
Fri, 08/15/2014 - 4:24pm
They do, but only at Kenmore for some reason.
What happened to those Orange line displays that showed where the trains exactly were on the line?
The signs at Kenmore only
By DTP
Fri, 08/15/2014 - 5:21pm
The signs at Kenmore only tell you WHICH train is coming next (B, C, or D) not when. Though the Green Line should get real-time signs sometime next year hopefully, maybe 2016.
The Orange Line displays you speak of are, sadly, all gone as far as I know. The one at Ruggles briefly lived on displaying bus times, but hasn't worked in a while now.
I *think* such a display (or even multiple) may still exist on the Blue Line though. I recall one at Maverick last time I passed through there.
Yay, more useless messages
By DTP
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 5:24pm
Yay, more useless messages that serve no legitimate purpose.
I'm willing to bet this is going to fault in more accidents than it prevents, due to people taking pictures of the signs while driving, like happened with the "use yah blinkah" ones.
Does the state really think that someone is going to see a message board telling them to "stay calm and drive on", and suddenly change their mind about driving aggressively? Or that someone's gonna decide to buckle up because a sign told them to?
No! They're not.
I miss the days when these signs weren't allowed to display anything but important traffic/emergency information.
For our downeaster friends:
By thatoneanon
Thu, 08/14/2014 - 5:28pm
Ah.. you cahn't get theah from heah, slow daohn.
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