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The Division of Conservation and Recreation is imploring motorists to concentrate to their environment this transferring season.

In Boston, this time of yr isn’t simply move-in season. It’s additionally Storrowing season, a lot to the chagrin of the Massachusetts Division of Conservation and Recreation.
DCR’s newest try and avert collisions between transferring vans and Boston’s lowest overpasses takes the type of a newly-installed reflective signal on the entrance to Storrow Drive designed to stumble upon too-tall autos, warning their drivers of the hazard forward.
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Watch: State releases parody PSA about transferring vans and Storrow Drive
The brand new “Automobiles Solely” signal, positioned on David G. Mugar Means earlier than it turns into Storrow Drive, is massive and reflective, with “4 further inches of rubber hanging on the very backside, meant to supply a gentle ‘first contact’ for an over top car,” in accordance with DCR.
It’s a part of a DCR pilot program to alert drivers to low clearances on Storrow Drive and Troopers Area Street in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

Boston’s essential arteries are crammed with many extra “Automobiles Solely” indicators warning of low bridges forward. However a couple of unwitting drivers ignore them yearly, with disastrous penalties.
Final week, DCR circulated a parody of the well-known BC SPCA industrial set to Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel,” imploring motorists to concentrate to their environment.
“For simply $0 a day you can’t hit a bridge or overpass,” a DCR worker says within the video.
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