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Boston in 2023: Storrowing
By adamg on Thu, 12/28/2023 - 9:50am
Storrowing of the year, captured by Mark Norton.
As always, local bridges in 2023 emerged victorious in their ceaseless battles with careless truck drivers, whose journeys come to a sudden halt, often with the sickening sound of metal being peeled back like tinfoil being ripped off the leftover turkey. But this year brought that rarest of occurrences, the local equivalent of a leprechaun at the end of a rainbow holding a pot of unicorns: A simultaneous double storrowing! So let's run down local storrowings and more amusing/annoying near storrowings, from the river roads to Westborough:
 Westborough gets into the storrowing game1/17/23 |
 Storrowing on actual Storrow Drive averted by inches1/17/23 |
 Say, we don't get many school buses on this road; yeah, and with these bridge heights, I can see why3/2/23 |
 Storrowing doesn't take a holiday4/17/23 |
 Boston's most apeeling road6/19/23 |
 Getting close only counts in horseshoes - or in creating massive traffic jams on a river road6/29/23 |
 Oh, so close!7/20/23 |
 Dorchester bridge stays in the storrowing game7/21/23 |
 Hit-and-run storrowing reported in Dedham7/26/23 |
 Why shlep all the way to Back Bay when you can storrow right off the Expressway in Dorchester?7/30/23 |
 Canton train bridge racks up impressive victory over out-of-state trucker8/14/23 |
 Aw, who wants to adopt a Storrow Drive overpass?8/24/23 |
 Trucker almost makes up for inability to read with good reflexes, brakes on a rainy morning on Storrow Drive9/18/23 |
 Now here's something you don't see every day: A storrowed food truck10/13/23 |
 Roslindale's first storrowing10/31/23 |
 It's the most wonderful time of year: Simultaneous double storrowing by Mass. Eye and Ear12/17/23 |
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Comments
Contrary to local lore ...
Note how few of these incidents are related to students moving times.
Myth: students and UHauls
Reality: illiterate truckers using Google Maps
Yep, and ...
It always impresses me how many of the drivers are locals, who you would think would know better - like the driver of that Boston Public Works trash truck in the double storrowing.
Yeah
And the 10' UHauls (smallest they have) fit under all the local bridges. That's what a student or someone without much stuff would rent anyway as it's the cheapest.
Also, not listed on Uhub is all the not-so-near misses. Seriously, at least once a week I'm riding to Boston in the morning on the Boston side of the path and see a truck parked in the pull-over area they have just before the BU Bridge. It's becoming more and more common.
VFW Parkway
I've seen at least two large trucks that didn't quite make it to the Needham line bridge near Home Depot. I'm sure there were dozens more.
They used to storrow near Blanchard's, too
But then the city lowered Lagrange Street and now no more storrowings there.
In the past
You know this, it was not merely lore in the past. It was fact. But with Google maps, the stupid has just transferred to everyone, not just people from 'away'.
Mostly lore
I used to live along Storrow in the 1980s. There were out of state rigs getting backed out all the time. Someone posted a picture of one such hit on a footbridge sometime back - my husband is one of the college students peering over the railing.
citation please?
I'm pretty confident most truckers are literate. The real reason for frequent Storrowing today is apathy from DCR which hasn't done a single thing to improve the signage in the past 30+ years. Obviously the existing signage is inadequate for the roadway, even if it's enough to check the box for minimum DOT requirements.
See the post above
And Adam's yearly summaries for other years.
There are plenty of signs. There are rubber thingies that thump the cabs.
Maybe they can read? Sure. But they certainly ARE NOT reading "Clearance X'XX", nor are they bothering to measure their loads.
Here's your citation
Au contraire...
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/just-time-allston-christmas-dcr-starts...
Wow
This is an incredible list of Storrowings.
You forgot this one!
A truck Storrowing inside the Sumner: https://cdllife.com/2023/watch-this-truck-get-stuck-halfway-through-the-...
I'm torn between 6/19 and 7
I'm torn between 6/19 and 7/21 for this years "Perfect Peel" award.