Bostonist: Hey Boston, What's Your Sign?

dga

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 17:23:45 -0500

By the way, The Boston Channel got Paul's name wrong. It's Schichtman. He's on the Arlington School Committee, and has his own blog at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ps/

DS

Sun, 07 Aug 2005 12:46:01 -0500

"I'm at the intersection of tremont st. and tremont st. ?!?"

Jerad

Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:55:29 -0500

I've been here for 4 years now, and the lack of signs still pisses me off. Yeah, I know my way around a lot of places, but I certainly can't drive from Somerville to Roslindale and be expected to just know every street. There's nothing charming about it - it's a safety issue and an annoyance and it's a problem that would be so ridiculously easy to fix if the towns and/or the state would stop looking at the lack of signs as a source of pride.

Ron Newman

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:52:47 -0500

I know this guy. His name is Paul [b]Schlichtman[/url], not Slickman.

Josh

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:33:11 -0500

True - I used Washington more as an example of street weirdness in general: You're going along, straight as can be, you go under the Arborway overpass (or whatever it's called there) and suddenly, without having turned or anything, you're on Hyde Park Ave., and Washington Street is off to your left somewhere.

adamg

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 12:26:23 -0500

Washington Street's actually a bad example of bad signage, at least south of Forest Hills - the city's put up all these huge (well, for Boston) signs.

joel

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:40:36 -0500

One thing I've noticed that irks me - side streets have signs, but beneath that side street signage you have absolutely *NO* indicator as to the name of the main road your are on. When the hell do you find out that Washington St. becomes Byde Park Ave.? excerpts from an actual conversation: "Are we on Somerville Ave.?" "I don't know but there's Lowell ... and there's Belmont ..." "well what the...?!"

ed

Wed, 03 Aug 2005 10:14:13 -0500

oh boston! you so crazy! you have so many charming idiosyncracies i just want to pee my pants!