A roving UHub videographer forwarded this video of a woman jogging down Storrow Drive by BU today, because, why, the Paul Dudley White Path that literally runs right next to the road wasn't good enough for her?
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Not only
By Kaz
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:13pm
Not only is that insane, but it's even the wrong way. You walk on a road with no sidewalk in the OPPOSITE direction to traffic so you stand ANY chance of bailing to the curb if the driver is going to hit you.
Running with traffic is like running with the bulls. Sure, some people survive it...some don't.
How do you know
By Will LaTulippe
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:54pm
Which way she's going? (Sarcastic thank you) (Drinking motion with thumb)
Do you not see the cars?
By perruptor
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 8:58am
?
Do you not understand movie references?
By Will LaTulippe
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 11:46am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_akwHYMdbsM
No
By perruptor
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 4:33pm
In fact, I do not know what assuredly world-changing movie that's a reference to. Oh, that one.
Could be a foreigner.
By Notfromboston
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:22pm
Could be a foreigner.
That’s right up there with
By anon
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:24pm
That’s right up there with taking a bike down the turnpike.
Jamaicaway.
By Notfromboston
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:32pm
Jamaicaway.
Seen it
By MrDines
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 12:53am
Saw that exact thing a few years ago and was glad I didn’t see any reported accidents afterwards.
Yet, she was unharmed.
By Lee
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:40pm
Taking back the streets?
Traffic calming?
By MrZip
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 10:12pm
Human speedbump
Relax, everyone
By JustinM
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 9:43pm
She's clearly running on the curb, and she's on the section where a quiet back alley behind BU merges onto Storrow. Probably realized she was entering a limited access road shortly after this was taken and exited. So don't worry, she wasn't running in the middle of the 40 mph superhighway known as Storrow Drive.
Fair enough ...
By adamg
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 10:37pm
I changed "numbnuts" to "woman," although she's not jogging on the curb, she's jogging on the pavement next to the curb.
I don’t see what the big deal
By anon
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 7:30am
I don’t see what the big deal is. There’s plenty
of width there, and nobody even honked let alone swerved.
My guess
By Life’s gonna be...
Wed, 06/23/2021 - 10:10pm
Is that she was looking for a way to the bike path and didn’t realize there were no crossings. I once had a similar experience…luckily I turned back.
Every September
By BostonDog
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 1:08am
I see people new to the area standing under the BU bridge trying to cross the road. Sometimes they have made it to the median and are really stuck.
I don't understand this stupidity since you can see the footbridge which is only a couple hundred feet away. But yet, there's always a few who think they can cross Storrow like one would cross a residential city street.
There used to be a crosswalk there
By Ron Newman
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 10:59am
Long ago, in the 1970s and maybe even early 80s, the Paul Dudley White bike path ended at the BU bridge. There was a painted crosswalk and a gap in the Storrow Drive median, where pedestrians walked across the road to the stairway leading up to the BU bridge. When the bike path was extended west towards Allston, the crosswalk and median gap were removed.
There's been some guy
By Octo
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 7:10am
There's been some guy harassing people on the esplanade lately. Maybe she's just fed up.
Good for her
By Ari O
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 9:24am
She's simply using the park as James and Helen Storrow (and God) intended: as a park.
Oh, lots of people do
By BostonDog
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 10:14am
It's not uncommon to see hundreds of cars parked on Storrow. /S
Protesters Blocking Traffic
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/25/2021 - 9:23pm
Seems they are always blocking the roads in protest of the beginning and end of the workday!
Oh James Storrow gets the final word then?
By Parkwayne
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 11:23am
Sucks about the Charles river ecosystem then.
Humans aren’t part of the
By BannedFromTheRoxy
Thu, 06/24/2021 - 1:01pm
Humans aren’t part of the ecosystem?
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