WBZ Traffic

[francini@mac.com]

It's a Star Market -- or at least it was three weeks ago when I was 
there last.  If it changes anytime soon, it'll be to a Shaw's. The same 
company has owned both chains for a few years now, and has been slowly 
converting Star Markets to Shaw's -- usually coupled with a 
renovation/expansion.  I'd guess that it's not likely that the "Star 
over the Pike" will get expanded anytime soon unless they add a floor 
above the existing one...

John Francini


On Jul 29, 2004, at 2:38 PM, SteveOrdinetz wrote:

> Roger Kirk asked...
>> Is it my fertile, fanciful, frenetic imagination?  Or do the 
>> tenacious,
>> traffic reporters on WBZ actually agonize over the traffic situations
>> and labor long to be appealingly, alliterative in their brisk, breezy
>> reports?
>>
>> frequent examples:
>>
>> Auburn to Allston (Mass Pike)
>> Peabody to Ponkapog (sp?)
>> Windham to Woburn (Route 93)
>
>
> Much like Elliot Abrahms' pun-filled weather forecasts?
>
> I've noticed a few inconsistencies in landmarks.  I've heard the
> supermarket that straddles the Mass. Pike in Newton referred to 
> sometimes
> as the Star Market (or Stop & Shop...always get those confused), other
> times as the "supermarket overpass".  At least I'm assuming both
> descriptions are for the same landmark.
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