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Dumbass of the day? Green Line now halted due to car on tracks
By adamg on Mon, 02/09/2015 - 10:12am
Around 10 a.m., Terry Hatfield captured the scene at Packards Corner, where somebody managed to drive a fair ways down the outbound B Line tracks before, of course, getting stuck.
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Hey at least it was plowed.
and didn't have space savers all over it.
But, what about all those
But, what about all those pieces of wood on the ground?
"Oh, look!"
"This lane was plowed. I can get to Dunkie's now..."
looks like a street to me!
looks like a street to me!
That intersection
Is terrible. I have stood on the platform there and had a car in front of me because it took the curve too quickly. It's amazing people don't get killed there more often. In the snow, I can see how driver might be easily confused.
Worse before the lights
Not sure if you've been here long enough but it was much worse before they put lights in the intersection. It used to be a great game of chicken with the twist of the green line tracks crossing from center to the right of the outbound lanes. A friend of mine was staying right at that intersection visiting his brother who went to BU and saw three accidents in one weekend, he grew up in LA and had no concept of how screwy it was here until then.
What????!!!???
How the hell did that car even manage to get onto the track bed in the first place??!!?
How?!?!?! Here's how!!!!!
Packard's Corner is where the Green Line crosses the intersection of Brighton and Comm. avenues, so it'd be pretty easy for somebody without much sense to drive on the tracks there.
I'm not surprised
That intersection is confusing enough without a flake of snow on it. I drove my car onto the outbound platform and over the curb at Packard's Corner 30 years ago and nothing has been done to improve the markings or signage since.
I just don't understand
They can hang "please don't hit our precious snowflakes crossing on green lights, so you should drive under 25 mph" yellow signs all over Comm Ave through BU...but they can't hang one of these at the beginning of the outbound T stop at Packard's Corner:
Well, actually, it should be
Well, actually, it should be a Keep Left sign, right? Because the traffic lane crosses the trolley tracks from right to left. Unless you're going onto the access road, in which case you keep right, but there's a sidewalk/platform there.
Ah, the hell with it. They'll figure it out.
"Ah, the hell with it. They
"Ah, the hell with it. They'll figure it out."
Yeah. In another thirty years.
Take the thing down flip it and reverse it
Put the stay left sign on the inbound side. However, I've driven inbound on Comm Ave and had to dive out of the way of a car that was coming straight at me on the wrong side of the travel lane island as well. So, it isn't just the T tracks that mess everyone up there.
Crossing
They could make a picture of the tracks with arrows going on either side. Or alternatively, maybe they should just use one of these
Eh..
Dumb move - yes. but cut the driver some slack.
It's confusing driving around there and its not like city is doing a great job of getting the snow removed. Also, the snow is coming down at a pretty good clip.
just a recipe for something like this to happen.
But hey - a bunch of people form the burbs enjoyed the Pats parade! The Patriots...who are all relaxing in Florida right now.
#MartyWalshFail
You need...
...to stop complaining about the damn parade. Really, you do. As the snow continues, the degree to which the parade cleanup has impacted your personal special-snowflake-removal is less and less each minute. For your own mental well-being, you really need to move on; otherwise you'll end up like one of those cranky old farts always complaining about some wrong that was done to them by the Wilson administration, and we'll have to take away your initial-caps Y.
As for this dumbfuck, I can see missing the road on either side where you're supposed to go. What I don't get is how he got that far down the tracks and didn't realize he wasn't on a road.
Sorry
You are right. I need to get over it.
Last thing our city needs is another cranky old person.
Blast from the past?
Is that actually a VW microbus?
Too short
Looks like a white-top Mini. Or a snow-not-cleared-off-the-top Mini.
I used to drive a 70 Microbus; lots taller.
Microbus might not get stuck
Much higher ground clearance, standard transmission, and shitloads of torque. Had a lot of fun driving my BFF's rig through the Blue Ridge mountains.
As far as dumbass moves go,
As far as dumbass moves go, this one isnt bad.
Out of Towner
I've made pretty much *exactly* that mistake in that intersection in the snow before (except that I was lucky enough to get my own car back out). As an out-of-towner from the distant city of Somerville I had no effin clue how that intersection was supposed to work. All the signs, and hell, even the curbs were lost in the snow. I made a guess and guessed wrong.
Of course I passed it off to my friends in my car from NY as just taking a bad ass short cut around stuck cars.
In case you're wondering, it was long before consumer gps was a thing, back when if you were lost you could find a pay phone and call someone and say "There's a Store 24 across the street and a CVS next to a Dunkies... How do I get to where you are?"