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Reuse of Indycar leftovers?
Reuse of Indycar leftovers?
Exactly what I was wondering.
Exactly what I was wondering.
Maybe
They're big enough that only 2 (maybe 3) can fit on a full size trailer. And heavy enough that a full on crane is needed to lift them at both ends of the trip.
Not inexpensive to move.
Sad that a happy celebration
Sad that a happy celebration for families needs to be protected in this way. Thank you to the men and women protecting all of us this holiday season.
A car plowing into a market need not be a terrorist attack
It could just be an impaired elderly driver who should no longer be driving. This happened in 2003:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Monica_Farmers_Market_crash
For some reason Boston has an
For some reason Boston has an aversion to installing bollards to keep vehicles out of pedestrian areas and off sidewalks.
Whch makes the fact that some sort of barriers
weren't included in the original "Fake Winter Scene At City Hall" design all the more inexcusable.
nonsense
Sure, as long as we also install said barriers by the Sam Adams statue at Faneuil Hall; and at Park and Tremont Streets; and anywhere else where large crowds congregate.
Oh, right. Because someone attacked a Christmas market in Germany with a vehicle, suddenly a winter festival at Boston's Government Center is more of a target than it was yesterday or a week ago.
If only as much energy were spent on protecting pedestrians and bikers from distracted and aggressive drivers throughout the region.
Boston
The last terrorist attack to happen in Boston took place in an area where the streets were already closed off for many blocks. Had there been bollards it would have slowed the responders.
You can endlessly be reactionary. I'm just happy I live in a city with the best hospitals given that the next terrorist attack will likely be as unexpected as the previous ones.
...and then...
"...and then I heard the truck make a turn at Sudbury, then Congress, and then I saw it jump the curb at State and Devonshire and plow over everyone at the Boston Massacre memorial. When the guy got out, before the crowd beat him to death, he started screaming that nobody there had to die if they'd only not put up blockades at the City Hall Winter Scape on Cambridge Street."
This city...hell, within 3 blocks of City Hall Plaza...there are dozens of easy to hop curbs with entire tour groups piled onto a small piece of sidewalk that are easily accessed by large trucks.
While I applaud them for wanting to take a more proactive stance in light of the recent event in Berlin, the next bomber won't put the explosives in his shoes.
Heck
All it took was a small sedan amid tour groups plus the lunch crowd at Washington and School.
No extra security noted
Was there yesterday. Maybe a few extra Municipal police and a few more plastic cones. And the muni cops are always staring or tapping on their phones so that's not really effective. Another Walsh react after the fact instead of planning in advance. Better security should have been part of the original plan.
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Did you feel unsafe there yesterday? What should the BPD have done differently?