Streetsblog Mass reports the driver who hit and killed John Corcoran on a pedestrian/bicyclist path next to Memorial Drive has had his license suspended during an investigation but has yet to be charged with anything: Read more.
An annoyed resident files a 311 complaint about the roadwork at Centre and Allandale streets, which aside from being a key chokepoint during the commute, leads to the Faulkner's main entrance: Read more.
A Springfield man who orchestrated a ring of catalytic-converter thieves that operated across two states - including in Newton, Waltham and Needham - was sentenced this week to ten years in federal prison, the US Attorney's office reports, adding the arrests of ring members last year has meant a significant decrease in catalytic-converter thefts. Read more.
Boston firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded to Genki Ya, 232 Tremont St. at Stuart Street after an SUV driver hit at least one pedestrian and then plowed into the front entrance shortly before 3:40 p.m. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports on the fatal crash near the BU Boathouse and BU Bridge, along a stretch of Memorial Drive that safety activists had urged DCR to do something about, but it didn't.
Boston police, firefighters and EMTs responded to 399 Congress St. at B Street after a driver crashed into a Seaport Boulevard building near there, bounced off and then took out a utility box, shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. First responders found the driver unconscious.
MassLive reports the driver died.
A peeved resident filed a 311 complaint this morning about this 1980s-era computer graphic illegally parked in a No Standing zone at Soldiers Field Road and Soldiers Field Place in Brighton.
Earlier:
Cybertruck? More like a Cyberbully.
Take a look at this beauty. It's so rare to see a truck just completely destroyed like that, sending debris everywhere and creating one hell of a massive backup - the driver must have gotten up quite the head of steam. Plus, the driver gets credit for returning to the sport's origins and traditions - plowing a rental truck into the bridge as God intended.
Update, Tuesday a.m.: The MBTA rolled out shuttle buses to replace Ashmont Red Line service after the water disrupted power to the trains.
A National Grid crew working in the street at Dorchester Avenue at Ashmont Street in Dorchester around 6 p.m., struck a Boston Water and Sewer Commission main, turning Peabody Square into an impassible lake and forcing firefighters to evacuate at least one building after they started smelling a strong odor of gas. Read more.
Around 10:30 this morning, roving UHub photographer Phil B. came across an unusual sight as he headed inbound on Storrow Drive just before the Kenmore exit: A truck facing inbound but on the otherwise empty outbound side. Read more.
Flipped SUV and observant crowd watching first responders. Photo by Lipistickey.
Boston Police officers, firefighters and EMTs responded to Commonwealth and Harvard avenues for a crash that left an SUV flipped on its side in front of the Taco Bell Cantina around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
Tow companies last month sued the Registry of Motor Vehicles for slowing down and even stopping the processing of documentation they need to sell off cars they say they towed at the request of local police but which are now just taking up space in their garages because the cars' owners are not coming forward to reclaim them. Read more.
Photo by Butternugz, who says this wasn't the worst of the fire.
Roving UHub photographer Butternugz found himself slowed to a crawl heading west on 93 south (128 north for you grizzled Boston-area drivers) in Canton shortly before 2:30 p.m. due to a New England Sealcoating truck busy going up in flames on 93 north (the former 128 south), just past the I-95 interchange: Read more.
Can it be? Nobody turned their box truck into a sardine can peeled back by an bridge on Storrow Drive, Mem Drive or Soldiers Field Road this Allston Christmas weekend? Read more.
On the morning of Aug. 18, a motorist who probably wasn't going at all fast, no sir, slammed into the long stone wall that runs along Pond Street between Prince and Eliot streets, across from the southern end of Jamaica Pond. Read more.
Cathy Vitale, who hopes to improve next year on her dead-last finish in the 2023 at-large council race, decided to park in the Tremont Street bike lane along the Common Friday night, then refused to move when a cop asked her to - and when he went to write her a parking ticket he discovered she had a suspended license. Read more.
DCR is out with its annual Allston Christmas warning for kids and their parents about the river roads.
Cambridge Day reports on the blood on asphalt on Memorial Drive at Ames Street left from where one driver used a pipe upside the other guy's head and that guy took out his licensed gun and plugged his opponent several times. Both will face charges - once they get out of the hospital.
The Boston Parks and Recreation Department, which owns the Arnold Arboretum, and Harvard University, which has 858 years left on its lease of the land, have petitioned the city Public Improvement Commission to change the name of Bussey Street to Flora Way. Read more.
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