Here’s Your Sign Boston! And Here’s To Hoping It Stops The ‘Storrowing’
They’re back! Beware of Storrowers heading to a college in Boston. With college move-ins happening all over the city, Boston officials have taken some extra precautions to help prevent more storrowings. New storrowing signs are going up. Trucks hauling futons, fans and other furniture into dorms and apartments have notoriously ignored signage leading into overpasses on Storrow Drive in Boston. Perhaps the new “louder” signs will help. Here’s your sign, Boston. And Here’s to hoping it stops the storrowing.
Although there are quite a few signs leading up to Storrow Drive, this new sign, which was installed Monday, should be even more visible. According to MassDCR,the new sign is a bright yellow aluminum made from what they describe as “a high-visibility retroreflective sheet.” The new material is also sturdier, so it should hold up better in the winter weather. The new sign has 4 inches of rubber that will hang at the bottom. This will provide a “soft first contact” for vehicles that are over the size limit. Smart, right?
The new signage is a part of a MassDCR pilot program that will warn drivers of the infamous low clearances on Storrow Drive, as well as Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive. This sign will clearly state, in bold bright colors, “Cars Only.” But that’s not all they are doing to prevent the storrowing.
(1/3) As Move In Day 2023 approaches, DCR’s traffic engineers are piloting a new type of high visibility sign in our ongoing attempt to keep trucks off of Storrow Drive and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge. pic.twitter.com/mhuPhG16sk
— MassDCR (@MassDCR) August 28, 2023
DCR has also launched a social media campaign. Working in with the colleges, truck rental and moving companies, it hopes to raise even more awareness. By the way, you can follow DCR on Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Threads, and YouTube at @MassDCR. One of their rather humorous posts urges us to “help save a truck!” Move-In day is here for some and coming soon for others. You will see increased signage throughout the area. Some of the message boards at at entry points will have a flair of humor, others more serious. But they will all serve as warnings of height restrictions in the area. Good luck out there!
21 Saucy Slangs That Are SO Boston
Wicked
Because, well, it’s wicked cool to say. It’s just an adjective, but it’s uniquely our adjective. You can’t have it New York! Add it to a pissah, and you are slaying the jam.
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Packie
This isn’t a bag to keep your stuff in. A packie is a liquor store, as in package store, where they conceal your alcoholic beverages in a brown “package” or paper bag. And since we’re talking about it, can you pick me up a 6-pack of Sams next time you’re at the packie?
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Bubbler
This is where you go when you’re thirsty and your building actually still has one of these things. More likely to be found outside near parks and beaches these days. It’s a water fountain, and bubbler just sounds better, even though there isn’t any bubbles to be found in the water.
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Pissah
A word often heard following wicked. It just means the absolute best! But, it can be used very effectively as sarcasm too. Oh, yeah. That’s wicked pissah, like the Celtics this year.
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Carriage
I know, Boston is old. So old. But a carriage is not what you’re thinking. It’s not a reference to a horse and carriage, but rather a shopping cart you can load up with lobstahs and chowdah.
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Regular
Nope. Not referring to your personal body function habits here. This is how you order your coffee at Dunks when you want it with milk and sugar. Try ordering it that way in California, and you’ll get a cup of black coffee.
Tonic
Certainly this Boston term isn’t as popular as it used to be, but for those who grew up around here tonic was soda, or anything carbonated.
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Statie
Just a warning. If someone tells you to watch out for staties, that means you may want to pay attention to your speed when driving, as not to get pulled over by the State Police.
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Rotary
We say it so much and drive through so many, we often take for granted the fact that most people refer to these circular traffic paths as round-a-bouts. And doesn’t that just sound silly?
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In Town
Telling someone that you are going in town, just means you are going to Boston. The Town. You don’t go into the city, you go “in town.” Oh, and when you do, have a wicked pissah time!
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Bang Out
You need to get out of something, like an obligation? Then you definitely need to bang out. Like when the Red Sox are losing badly in the 8th, you might bang out to beat the crowd.
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Yah No
Despite the “yah.” It’s a HARD no, for a Bostonian. Yah, no, I’m not buying this round of beeahs.
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