More Cowbell....

[BrklynLiberal]

A cowbell is suspended from the back of a sign on a ramp from Longfellow Bridge to Memorial Drive in Cambridge.

Truckers may see cowbells make a comeback in Mass.
Devices warned of low overpasses
Musicians play them. Ski fans bang them. Farmers tie them to heifers.
Now, state officials may use cowbells to help solve a curiously persistent transportation problem: trucks that crash into the low Storrow Drive and Memorial Drive bridges despite the abundant signs warning them away.

Frustrated that truckers are blowing right by the signs, the Department of Conservation and Recreation says it may revive a homegrown network of cowbells to give the drivers a musical wake-up call.

The system was first installed in the 1980s when the state chained cowbells - no fancier than the kind used by farmers - to rubber flaps that said "Cars Only" and hung them from "Low Clearance" signs along the busy roads. Truckers who did not heed the warnings hit the flaps and heard the cowbells clang in enough time to stop before they rammed overpasses.
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more at...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/09/15/truckers_may_see_cowbells_make_a_comeback_in_mass/
:rofl:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Crashes Don't Happen Often - But They Are Amusing

Sort of smushes the top of the truck.

Since there aren't too many ways on to Storrow, it might be worth doing this at each entrance - build a simple structure with a cowbell or similar hanging down, so they don't even get on.

[Synnical]

2. More!

Simple things are sometimes the best!

[rucky]

3. Paging LynneSin... n/t

[whoneedstickets]

4. What happens when rust and impacts weaken the chain?

Having an iron cowbell crash into your windshield going freeway speeds would not be fun.

[The Sushi Bandit]

5. OK here it is!

[BrklynLiberal]

6. Thank you...

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