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Anybody need some artisanal Jersey barriers?
By adamg on Tue, 06/28/2016 - 7:48pm
The Herald reports Massport is stuck with some 9,400 specially designed concrete barriers for the IndyCar that Wasn't, sitting on land that was supposed to be for maritime uses, but no longer is, thanks to the thousands upon thousands of these things that the local IndyCar promoters are no longer paying to store there.
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Comments
Use them to create buffered
Use them to create buffered bike lanes? Artificial reef somewhere in the harbor?
Congress Street
I'll get a group together to lift them onto super-overbuilt bike trailers to be pulled by a team of cyclists and lifted into place by a multitude. That will stop the scofflaws! (BWAHAHAHAHAH!)
Heck, combine it all with the naked bike ride - it will be totally classical! Sweaty and naked people, wrestling en masse with large objects. Epic!
And you'll still have 10 miles left
This is a goddamn lot of jersey barriers!
Maybe MassDOT could use them for something?
bike lane dividers
bike lane dividers
9400 concrete jersey barriers
9400 concrete jersey barriers I say bury them in the Boston harbor
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Drop them in the yards of the organizers
One every day until they pay back everyone that bought a ticket.
Drop them in Marty's office
He promoted this against the wishes of residents, until it became clear it wasnt going to happen. Then he threw the promoters under the bus and ran away from any responsibility.
Modern Art
Build a monument to Marty's towering incompetence on City Hall Plaza!
(As a bonus when it crashes through to the tracks below it can also serve as a monument to the failed maintenance of the T)
As much as I love the idea
Doesn't City Hall Plaza have enough concrete already?
Title award
Love the title of this post. Cracked me up :-) thanks!
Brooklyn?
Please.
What?
Brooklyn?
He's tired
He hasn't gotten any sleep.
What you did there
I see it.
So 2010
I think anon is referring to Brooklyn's prolific "artisanal" movement, i.e. Mast Bros, Etsy headquarters, etc
Artisinal my derriere
Artisinal as a word lost what little meaning it had left when Mickey D's starting calling one of their chicken sandwiches "artisinal".
You do you
Keep on speaking truth to power.
Quick fix
Toss them in the harbor.
Jamaicaway
Divide the jamaicaway
GOD DAMN
what a great idea. That road is plain scary in most places. Narrow/w curves. Hpw did people drive huge American boat-cars on that road in the 60s-70s? Was it even there then?
Sell 'em to Brookline
to reinforce the Great Wall of Allston.
concrete barriers
Could these be used by beach front properties as a barrier to prevent erosion from the ocean?
Donate them to the city of Cleveland
They could use them for the Republican National Convention this summer which will become a festival of fools or a full blown riot.
It's 2000 barriers that are
It's 2000 barriers that are in storage -9400 was what was needed if I understood the Herald article right. That's still a massive waste or concrete.
Re-purpose them
Bike lanes on Mass Ave and Comm Ave. Protected sidewalk for Beacon St.
Mass. Ave. in Cambridge needs
Mass. Ave. in Cambridge needs them desperately! It's a shit-show on the other side of the river.
Put them on Green Line
Put them on Green Line intersections to discourage drivers cutting off the trolleys.