Playing In Traffic

I’m using carbon-based fuels to commute today, and sitting on Storrow drive for the better part of an hour leads me to again ask a question I pose to myself five or six times a year: Do we need some sort of vigilant para-military presense on Boston’s river roads to keep over-sized vehicles from driving onto them and de-capitating themselves?

This isn’t rocket science. If you’re driving a truck (or bus, from what I heard about today’s FUBAR) and you see a sign that says “low clearance”, or if you scrape the roof on one of those things that hang down before the on-ramps, GET THE HELL OFF THE ROAD! I’m sorry you can’t take the most direct route to your destination. Deal. You, your employer, your employer’s insurance company, and the thousands of commuters who you won’t inconvenience will thank you for it.

Filed under: bike commute, Storrow Drive