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09-11-2007, 01:56 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
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Road signs
Do we really need evacuation route signs every 1/4 mile on the cape. I just started to notice them all along 28 last nite on way home from work. Even one at the bottom of the bridge. Daaa. Like there isn't enough urban blight already along the sides of the road.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-11-2007, 02:12 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: RI
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I like them, reminds me I don't live in Iowa any more 
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09-11-2007, 02:17 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,164
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
Do we really need evacuation route signs every 1/4 mile on the cape. I just started to notice them all along 28 last nite on way home from work. Even one at the bottom of the bridge. Daaa. Like there isn't enough urban blight already along the sides of the road.
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Anyone who doesn't know the way off the Cape without signs deserves to suffer whatever fate everyone else is running away from 
I'm suspecting the Commonwealth got a bunch of federal Homeland Security $$$ and had to do this to keep the funding.
Evacuating the entire Cape over two narrow bridges--yeah, good luck with that one  |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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09-11-2007, 02:37 PM
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Registered Grandpa
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: east coast
Posts: 8,592
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
I'm suspecting the Commonwealth got a bunch of federal Homeland Security $$$ and had to do this to keep the funding.
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Or maybe one of the mucky ducks bro-in -law owns a sign company.  |
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09-11-2007, 04:18 PM
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Uncle Remus
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Lakeville Ma.
Posts: 14,773
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It is ridiculous it is every 1/4 mile for gods sake do they think people have the attention span of 6 year old.
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"A beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real"
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09-11-2007, 04:25 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
Posts: 5,985
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike P
Anyone who doesn't know the way off the Cape without signs deserves to suffer whatever fate everyone else is running away from
I'm suspecting the Commonwealth got a bunch of federal Homeland Security $$$ and had to do this to keep the funding.
Evacuating the entire Cape over two narrow bridges--yeah, good luck with that one |
I said that Sunday night as the Wife and I were leaving. If you can't find your way off the Cape, then you're gonna die anyway. I don't think that my chances are good in gridlock atop the Sagamore Bridge during a hurricane either. |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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09-11-2007, 04:55 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: RI
Posts: 5,705
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They're everywhere.And sometimes pointing in a direction which isn't the best route to take.
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09-12-2007, 06:12 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
It is ridiculous it is every 1/4 mile for gods sake do they think people have the attention span of 6 year old.
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What did you say? Are we there yet?
Is it in Braille too? |
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09-12-2007, 07:46 AM
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Super Moderator
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Georgetown MA
Posts: 18,225
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ProfessorM
do they think people have the attention span of 6 year old.
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Well....Yeah. Every day I meet people that get lost walking out the door....there is no shortage of stupid people in the world.
and think about the Brain Trust that makes up the Tourist Population that invades the cape every year.....I'm betting there aren't a whole lot of Einsteins in that group |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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09-12-2007, 09:18 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2002
Posts: 5,945
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So
the signs...
effin joke that they are.
some misguided muslim flys a plane into the Plymouth Nuke plant, or it goes into failure on it's own... my only option is to drive TOWARDS it in heavy traffic for God knows how long... OK.. yeah, that makes sense.. Huge Hurricane comes along .. I ain't heading for them Model T bridges.... stayed through Bob, and a few others.. i'm used to camping in the rough, no worries, and i'm high and dry at my place.. if it goes 100 feet above sea level, were all toast anyway.
they should just have signs that says, in case of emergency.. bend over, kiss your ass goodbye. 
but.. i do recall reading it's funded and mandatory.. just shows Govt. at its.. "best" 
kinda moronic.. i mean really.. how many ways are there over them bridges?  |
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09-12-2007, 10:06 AM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
Posts: 8,760
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Homeland security funded I believe
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09-12-2007, 03:11 PM
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Jiggin' Leper Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 61° 30′ 0″ N, 23° 46′ 0″ E
Posts: 8,164
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The funny thing is--coming off 6, the last sign is just before the 6A merge. Once you get over the bridge, there's no sign telling you which way to go next.
East towards Scussett Beach?
West towards Buzzards Bay (figure 2 hours minimum to get there during a mass exodus)?
Or straight up 3? Towards the radioactive cloud billowing out of Pilgrim 
Did the money run out or are they still trying to figure which is the best of 3 lousy options? |
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools, because they have to say something.
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09-12-2007, 05:48 PM
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Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: 4 hours from my favorite place
Posts: 5,366
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When I saw the signs I pondered it for a moment and turned to my husband and said....if THIS is the evacuation route, arent we pretty screwed anyway"????!!!!
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Simplify.......
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09-13-2007, 03:50 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: lost anglers association
Posts: 23
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As a former ER nurse here are some things that will get you killed.
1. people who stop in their tracks immediatly after leaving a building.
2.Overestimating your health.
3.HMO'S.
4.Overestimating others intelligence
5.Not wearing a seat belt.
6. Believing that gas pain in your chest is just that.
7. Drinking then operating something that require your (fool) attention)
8.Ignoring common sense and replacing it with a "short-cut"
9.Not wearing safety devices.
10.My favorite is ...letting yourself become distracted with the job at hand ....
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