Can it be? Nobody turned their box truck into a sardine can peeled back by an bridge on Storrow Drive, Mem Drive or Soldiers Field Road this Allston Christmas weekend?
We did have a near Storrowing, but the driver managed to exit at the Bowker Overpass with nary a screeeeee - because the U-Hauler exited onto Charlesgate from the inbound side, with its EZ-Soft (tm) curves, rather than the can-opening outbound side.
And yet, all those U-Hauls were getting onto our cow paths, careening all over and slamming into things and just generally making a nuisance of themselves - it's just that their drivers weren't taking the river roads.
But there's always Monday. And take solace in the fact that it's now always Labor Day on Storrow Drive, and the best storrowings can happen any day of the year now.
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To be expected.
By Lee
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 7:42am
It’s not so much the students and the amateur truck drivers who can effectively storrow. It’s the professionals.
"Professionals"
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 11:04am
Part of the problem is that people getting paid to drive these things often do not have CDLs.
Another part of the problem: the "professional" drivers are hired at near-minimum wage and have 1 or 2 years of driving experience.
Add GoogleMaps and stir.
Flex posts are not stanchions
By Frelmont
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 9:46am
Flex posts are not stanchions as they don’t support anything. (Abstractly, one can say they “support” a nominal space, but they don’t support a load.) Are the flex posts Boston and other municipalities purchase supposed to survive being “flexed” by the necessities of life, such as: deliveries, emergency vehicles and movers, or are they supposed to be replaced with each encounter/use? If it’s the former, then the low bid did not meet minimum quality standards.
"None" is winning the pool?
By jmeltzer
Mon, 09/02/2024 - 11:54am
Is that a first?
I'd have never picked it.
By Don't Panic
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 12:16am
I'd have never picked it.
_No one_ would have picked it.
By jmeltzer
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 8:10am
I guess that means ... the house keeps the money?
But on the eastern roads, we did get a Sumnering.
By jmeltzer
Tue, 09/03/2024 - 8:38am
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/tractor-trail...
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