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What would you do with an electronic roadside message board?
By adamg on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 11:41am
For sale: One gently used, solar-powered message board of the type some rapscallion would no doubt use to mess with drivers' minds, but you would never in a million years think of abusing.
But just hypothetically, if you did have such a thing at your disposal, what would you do with it?
It's part of an online auction of stuff MassDOT is trying to get rid of, from an old intercity bus to backhoes to street sweepers.
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Simple
Place it on the VFW on the Dedham/W. Rox line advertising "Penis for lunch."
Nahh.
Been there. Done that.
marquis
"Drivers - YOU are the TRAFFIC"
Yeah, guilt will solve all of
Yeah, guilt will solve all of our transportation problems.
blinking-DONT BE STUPID!!!-blinking
at entrance to storrow drive
Counterpoint
Entrance to Storrow Drive
"MAX HEIGHT 0.015 FURLONGS"
Do it like the Aussies do
https://www.flickr.com/photos/spikebot/2709105633
How about I put it outside my
How about I put it outside my parking garage in a historic part of the city, and use it to advertise all the historic attractions you can park for?
Oh wait, the government already does that. https://goo.gl/maps/BUR5GaVguRy
Install on Comm Ave at Washington St facing inbound
B LINE
GOV'T CENTER
5 MI 60 MIN
Let's buy a whole bunch and
Let's buy a whole bunch and spread them all over eastern Massachusetts to display public service announcements in an exaggerated version of the local dialect to further reinforce an overly simplistic and grossly generalized view of how we speak in these parts. Oh, that's already been done too.