CorpusRecord 25081

Boston's $100 Sign Hack: 1925 Traffic Solution REVEALED!

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Source
YouTube / WACA-TV Ashland
Date
2025-05-01
Location
Middlesex County, MA
Material
Transcript
Extent
56 words · about 1 min
Collected
2026-06-05

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001the old DPW, Department of Public Works, instead of spending millions of dollars on asphalt and and and street signs and lights and paving. Instead, they spent a few hundred bucks on some signs and painted the numbers 1 28 on them. and they simply hammered them into the sides of roads that they decided would represent a circumferential route around Boston about 15 miles outside the city.

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