Don't do it! Don't get Storrowed!
A hanging “Cars Only” sign on University Road warning drivers of the low clearence on Storrow Drive. Sept. 1 is fast approaching and with it, familiar scenes around the city are beginning to take stage: unwanted furniture lines the curbs of Allston; bars around Brighton Avenue get a bit of renewed life from college students; box trucks flood city roads.
Getting"Storrowed," as New Englanders commonly refer to it, is when an unwitting driver crashes a moving truck into a low-clearance bridge on Storrow Drive. It's an event so ubiquitous on the parkway that it even has its own entry inDespite many signs of warning dotting the approaches to the parkways, drivers of over-height vehicles seem to find their way onto Storrow Drive or Memorial Drive in Cambridge.
The success of these public service announcements has been debatable. One reason may be that while popular navigation apps, such as Google Maps, allow drivers to avoid highways or tolls, they don't necessarily have designated routes for moving truck drivers. The damage can be costly. White said roof damage ranges can average anywhere from $1,000, when low-hanging tree branches on Memorial Drive scrape the top of the truck, to about $35,000 for bridge collision incidents.
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