Frozen Charles lets somebody heave another traffic cone on the river

By adamg on Tue, 02/07/2023 - 9:56pm

Cone atop the Charles River off the Mass. Ave. bridge

Remember last year when the state used traffic cones to mark off some bike lanes on the Mass. Ave. Bridge and somebody didn't like them and tossed them onto the frozen Charles River? A roving UHub photographer discovered today that some low-energy bike-lane hater tried to replicate that, only gave up after just one cone.

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Back Bay

Free tagging:

Massachusetts Avenue Bridge

Harvard Bridge

Charles River

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Comments

But…

By Christobal on Tue, 02/07/2023 - 10:18pm.

Can’t the culprit at least to land the cone standing upright on the ice?

One cone could be just an

By anon on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 12:35am.

One cone could be just an idiot messing around, rather than a political statement.

Absolutely not

By jl326 on Thu, 02/09/2023 - 2:57pm.

Clearly the work of a criminal driver here with an axe to grind.

Tossing more than one cone ….

By Lee on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 7:02am.

… would have required more walking than the average driver can manage.

So either this was a driver whose weak and achy seat adapted body would not allow a full lane destruction.
Or just a random healthy walking or bike riding prankster.
There might be your standard no opinion secret cone haters out there too.

Detective Columbo over here

By robo on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 8:25am.

I vote for a biker wearing too tight of a kit (all too frequent) and they could only muster one cone before they ripped it. The cones were probably in ‘their’ bike lane and they went nuclear.

LOL!

By Lee on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 8:33am.

The list of suspects grows.

Should be a reminder

By Bostoneer on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 7:34am.

Should be a reminder to actually build bike lanes up to the global standard (which the MA design standards correspond to even if we still rarely see anything built to that standard) and use permanent physical barriers to protect bike lanes not flimsy plastic shit that breaks in a week and ends up polluting our ecosystems. Also flex posts and cones will not stop a speeding vehicle and should not be considered “protected” at all.

So it was probably drunk students being students. Hahaha it would be SO FUNNY if we THREW this cone into the RIVER!

if youre a frozen charles, you gotta unnastan

By anon on Wed, 02/08/2023 - 12:46pm.

cones are gonna hit you.