A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a Cybertruck owner who keeps parking in a resident-only space without a resident parking permit - using the old ticket-on-the-windshield trick: Read more.
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By adamg - 1/16/25 - 12:55 pm
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) said yesterday the city should expand its side-street speed-hump program to the city's main thoroughfares - and lower the citywide speed limit - to reduce the number of pedestrians sent to the grave by impatient speeders. Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 11:52 pm
DCR proposal shows Murray Circle turned more into Murray Square, with traffic lights.
Unlike the weather, DCR says this time it's really going to do something to make the Arborway safer for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, possibly in 2027, through a host of improvements that will include changing the giant circle of doom by the Arboretum known as Murray Circle and the smaller ellipsoid of confusion up by Jamaica Pond known as Kelley Circle into large intersections, with traffic lights and turn lanes and "highly visible" crosswalks and pedestrian-crossing signals. Read more.
By adamg - 1/14/25 - 12:43 pm
Gov. Healey today announced a plan to spend an extra $8 billion over the next ten years on transportation projects, including a large increase in the MBTA's annual budget and nearly $1.4 billion for capital projects that would include new subway and commuter-rail cars, spending on "station accessibility and resilience, track improvements and power system resiliency" and bolstering ferry service. Read more.
By adamg - 1/13/25 - 9:22 am
McSweeney's chronicles our state's unique road signs, although as Oom_rl notes, they missed the one inviting truck drivers onto Storrow Drive.
By adamg - 1/12/25 - 10:25 pm
Boston.com reports on a crash around 9:20 a.m. in Andrew Square that killed a pedestrian and, after the vehicle slammed into a building, sent the driver and a passenger to the hospital with critical injuries.
By adamg - 1/9/25 - 12:23 pm
Photo by a roving UHub photographer.
A driver ran his or her car into the front steps of a triple decker at 4436 Washington St. at Wellsmere Road in Roslindale around 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday The car's air bags went off and ISD was requested to check the structural integrity of the building.
That's the same intersection where two drivers collided in November, sending one vehicle into a tree and flipping the other on its roof.
By adamg - 1/8/25 - 2:27 pm
The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.
By adamg - 12/29/24 - 3:13 pm
The driver of this bus atop Jersey barriers at Guest and Arthur streets in Brighton will no doubt have an interesting story to tell his dispatcher how he wound up like that, around 2:10 p.m. No reported injuries.
By adamg - 12/27/24 - 5:10 pm
Bicycle, evidence markers and investigators at crash scene. Photo by Shamus Moynihan.
A bicyclist suffered critical injuries in a crash at Albany and East Berkeley streets in the South End shortly after 11:10 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/24 - 9:28 am
Brian C. captured a stuck 18-wheeler on May 10.
The bridges and overpasses of the river roads continued their winning streak in 2024, once again teaching lessons to truck drivers from near and far what "CARS ONLY" means. The year also brought an unusual, underwater twist as construction work in the Sumner Tunnel meant we got to see some below-ground storrowing. Read more.
By adamg - 12/25/24 - 11:40 am
A disgusted motorist filed a 311 complaint yesterday evening about the way the River Street Bridge in Hyde Park was re-opened on Monday: Read more.
By adamg - 12/23/24 - 9:36 pm
The first across the bridge.
Shortly before 7:40 p.m. MassDOT workers removed barrels on the Gordon Avenue side of the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square and let the first driver back on the bridge since it was shut in May, 2022 because it was falling apart. Read more.
By adamg - 12/20/24 - 11:17 pm
Gallivan Boulevard is under there, right?
Bostonians filled the 311 lines with plenty of road snow complaints today, such as this complaint at 7:16 p.m. about Gallivan Boulevard (which, granted, is a state road, not a city responsibility): Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 3:06 pm
Photo by Transit PD.
For the third time in two weeks, somebody in a Toyota wound up ensnared on Green Line tracks, this time at the end of the B Line at Boston College. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/24 - 2:21 pm
Armand Walker shows us the fresh asphalt at the River Street bridge in Hyde Park's Cleary Square today, reports workers there are optimistic the bridge could be re-opened to traffic next week, which would end the long running nightmare for people trying to get somewhere in or near Cleary Square. Read more.
By adamg - 12/18/24 - 4:17 pm
Firefighters clean up debris as car awaits transport away from the scene.
A roving UHub photographer snapped the aftermath of an apparent car-B-Q at the southern end of the Gilmore Bridge this afternoon, reports traffic was back up all the way to North Station. Read more.
By adamg - 12/13/24 - 3:41 pm
Photo by Transit PD.
Transit Police report arresting the 29-year-old driver of a Toyota they say turned onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Brigham Circle around 3 a.m. and then didn't get very far and remained on scene so that officers could determine enough signs of intoxication to warrant an OUI arrest.
This was a week after another Toyota driver allegedly did the same basic thing on the Green Line at Coolidge Corner.
By adamg - 12/6/24 - 5:18 pm
An eight-year-old suffered a leg injury in an incident on Pershing Road at the Curley School involving a BPS school bus ending up hitting a gate at the lower school around 3 p.m.
Jamaica Plain News reports the injuries were not considered life threatening - and that Curley parents have long complained about how buses park on the sidewalk to await students.
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