🚧 BREAKING: Harris Road Construction Project Enters New Phase - “Choose Your Own Adventure” 🚧
In what officials call “an innovative, decentralized approach to communication,” Bedford has skipped official closure alerts and left residents to make their own signs. The result? A patchwork of Sharpie cardboard, rain-warped poster board, and one plywood masterpiece that just says “NOPE.”
The electronic DOT sign, usually reserved for rapidly blinking messages about why you shouldn’t touch a leaf blower, now flashes “Stop Sign Ahead.” Helpful - except the road is closed and undriveable. Like warning someone about a speed bump on the moon. Technically true, but you’re never getting there.
The Bee-Line Bus, apparently never notified, found itself trapped last week - forced to back up the entire stretch of Harris Road like my Roomba heroically smearing cat feces across the basement.
The new turn from Harris onto Babbitt is so tight, soccer moms in mall-cruising Jeeps will be perfecting 47-point turns by fall. School buses? Forget it. Full-size transit? Bold dream.
Town officials call it another “expected oversight,” but two theories are gaining traction:
1. They’re trying to drive the Bee-Line out over its carbon footprint.
2. They just hate the first three letters of “Bee-Line.”
Either way, Bedford residents are living inside a traffic experiment usually found in bad video games.
Note: In addition to a signature AI-generated scene, I’m also including actual photos from at least six different residents who’ve pinged me in the past few days about this masterclass in how not to run a road project.
