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By adamg - 11/13/24 - 4:10 pm
Smoke from car fire on I-93

A hybrid burst into flames on I-93 outbound, just south of Freeport Street, around 2:10 p.m. A roving UHub photographer at Lambert's off Morrissey Boulevard captured the smoke plume. No reports of injuries.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 2:28 pm

NBC Boston has the pics of the aftermath of a truck driver heading inbound on Storrow Drive having his entire roof peeled back like a long stretch of tin foil as he tried but failed to squeeze under the Fairfield Street footbridge around 5:15 a.m.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 1:53 pm
Remains of the bike under the wheels of a pickup

A woman in her 20s was taken to a local hospital after she was struck by a driver of a Ford F-250 at Western Avenue and Academic Way around 11:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 3:16 pm
Electric-powered garbage truck

Cambridge today rolled out the first of four battery-operated trash trucks it's buying to reduce carbon emissions from city vehicles. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 12:38 pm
Overturned truck storrowed at Kenmore ramp

Roving UHub photographer George Lewis captured the scene at the Bowker Overpass today, not long after a truck driver yelled, we imagine, "STORROWED!" on learning why trucks are banned from Storrow Drive in general, but especially the Kenmore loop ramps, because trucks hit them at just the right angle to flip them on their side.

You know it's a good storrowing when the fire department shows up, too: Read more.

By emac - 11/9/24 - 5:44 pm

Have plans on Sunday morning that involve going north or south through JP, east or west across JP? That’s great! The Arborway, Jamaicaway and part of the Riverway are closed for the B.A.A. Half Marathon from roughly 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM, with much of Franklin Park’s Circuit Drive shut too. Goofus and Gallant have been here before.

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 7:30 pm
Overturned car at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road

Photo by a roving UHub photographer

The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 10:38 am

A motorcyclist and the driver of another vehicle collided at Hyde Park Avenue and West Street shortly before 3:45 a.m. The motorcyclist was declared dead at the scene.

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 9:56 am

Mark Garfinkel captures the scene on Memorial Drive, where a trucker hauling portable toilets this morning slammed into the Mass. Ave. overpass, sending two of the plastic outhouses right onto the asphalt.

By adamg - 10/21/24 - 11:47 pm
Vigil participants on Tower Street

Eric Esteves was among those calling for immediate action tonight to prevent more pedestrian fatalities around the Forest Hills MBTA station, following the Oct. 12 death of Glenn Inghram as he crossed Washington Street and was hit by an MBTA bus.

The vigil was held on Tower Street at Washington, near where Ingrahm was fatally hit.

By adamg - 10/20/24 - 10:00 pm

Forest Hills residents have organized a vigil to honor both Glenn Inghram, who struck by an MBTA bus turning left out of the T station on Oct. 12 and to call on the state and city to take steps to make that and nearby intersections safer for pedestrians.

The vigil starts at 5:30 p.m. at Washington and Tower streets, where Ingrahm was fatally struck, just a few blocks from his Arborway apartment.

By adamg - 10/18/24 - 8:43 pm

Centre Street at Allandale Street in front of the main entrance to Faulkner Hospital was shut and large parts of Jamaica Plain lost water after a Boston Water and Sewer Commision main burst around 5 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/18/24 - 2:05 pm

Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 11:40 am

Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.

By adamg - 10/14/24 - 9:59 am

A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the owner of a Nissan Versa apparently permanently parked on Weld Hill Street in Jamaica Plain: Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/24 - 9:53 pm

Boston Police and Boston EMS responded to River and Arlington streets in Hyde Park after a crash shortly before 7:20 p.m. between a scooter and an SUV. The scooter driver was transported to a Boston trauma center with life-threatening injuries. Read more.

By adamg - 10/11/24 - 10:16 am

Streetsblog Mass reports the MBTA is warning commuter-rail could come to a screeching halt "within weeks" if its parent agency, MassDOT, goes ahead with its plans to tear down the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge as part of its plans to completely rebuild the turnpike where the Allston tolls used to be. Read more

By adamg - 10/10/24 - 3:13 pm

A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint about the current parking situation on Beacon Hill: Read more.

By adamg - 10/10/24 - 12:59 pm

The Boston Public Improvement Commission today approved renaming the road that bisects the Arnold Arboretum as Flora Way, to honor a Black woman enslaved by a nearby landowner in the 1700s, the Rename Bussey Street group of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents reports. Read more.

By adamg - 10/6/24 - 12:38 pm

Cambridge Day reports work that includes widening the pedestrian/bicycle path and reducing the speed limit on Memorial Drive outbound from the BU Bridge starts Monday.

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