Tip O'Neill Tunnel

O'Neill Tunnel became a river in yesterday's downpour

By adamg - 12/12/24 - 1:27 pm

NBC Boston reports (with video of non-aquatic drivers just trying to survive the flood) MassDOT spent the night pumping out the tunnel.

Three cars crash, burst into flames in tunnel from the Tip O'Neill to the Ted Williams; three people taken to the hospital

By adamg - 5/24/24 - 11:04 pm

The remains of the three cars, photo by BFD.

The Boston Fire Department reports a three-car crash on the ramp from the northbound Tip O'Neill Tunnel to the Ted Williams Tunnel caused a two-alarm fire that sent three of the six people in the ruined cars to the hospital and filled the tunnel with smoke, around 4 p.m. Read more.

Driver flips car in O'Neill Tunnel

By adamg - 6/3/23 - 4:20 pm

Around 3 a.m. on I-93 northbound, Live Boston reports.

Boat capsizes in O'Neill Tunnel

By adamg - 5/5/23 - 3:48 pm

N spotted this newly unhitched boat inside the O'Neill Tunnel northbound today.

Back in 2015:
Yacht founders on icy shoals downtown.

Car goes up in flames in the O'Neill Tunnel

By adamg - 2/9/23 - 6:01 pm

Shortly before 4:45 p.m., a car on the southbound side of I-93 in the tunnel erupted in flames. And that's why the ventilation shaft at Essex Street and Surface Road began belching black smoke.

Not a good day for downtown tunnel entrances

By adamg - 2/2/23 - 4:18 pm

So far this afternoon, MassDOT reports there was a multi-car crash at the entrance to the O'Neill Tunnel northbound that shut the left lane and an "overheight" tractor trailer that jammed up the entrance to the Callahan Tunnel. Both scenes now clear.

Close only counts in horseshoes

By adamg - 11/29/22 - 12:43 pm

Truck backing up from Callahan Tunnel entrance

Jessica Dello Russo watched today as state troopers opened up the special Backup of Shame ramp from the Callahan Tunnel entrance to the Greenway today and then guided another big-rig driver slowly backwards up to the street after he realized his truck wasn't going to fit without a haircut.

Bold bicyclist braves Boston's big burrow

By adamg - 9/2/22 - 10:55 am

Joshua Fabian spotted this dude pedaling as hard as he could last night in the O'Neill Tunnel under the streets of Boston. No word if he kept going up onto the Zakim.

Wow, it's really foggy out there, oh, wait, we're in a tunnel!

By adamg - 8/20/22 - 11:01 am

Andrew Kreshtool wonders what happened in or near the O'Neill Tunnel around 9 p.m. yesterday:

Why did traffic in the the Tip O’Neill Tunnel NB come to a complete halt for 5+ minutes, then open back up with filled with smoke but no other signs of trouble whatsoever???

Police say guy got his old Caddy up to 80 m.p.h. in the O'Neill Tunnel; charged him for that and the loaded guns and drugs they say they found in the car

By adamg - 8/6/21 - 1:32 pm

A Framingham man already not supposed to drive due to a previous OUI charge led a state trooper on a high-speed chase that started at West 4th Street and Frontage Road and ended in the O'Neill Tunnel northbound, where the trooper clocked him going past 80, swerving from lane to lane all the while, with a broken tail light on his 2003 Cadillac early Wednesday, State Police say. Read more.

Gravel-spilling dump truck causes rocky road for O'Neill Tunnel commuters

By adamg - 3/2/20 - 9:53 am

State Police report a dump truck tipped over inside the O'Neill Tunnel northbound, disgorging its load of gravel across three lanes and creating a mess for commuters.

WFXT has dashcam video of the truck tipping over.

State Police say trooper quickly grew suspicious when two men in a disabled car on I-93 at rush hour tried to get him to leave them alone

By adamg - 1/5/20 - 3:30 pm

State Police report troopers arrested two men whose car died on I-93 northbound just before the O'Neill Tunnel Friday evening on a variety of drug and gun charges. Read more.

Bad crash in O'Neill Tunnel southbound

By adamg - 11/1/19 - 10:18 am

Allison Freeman reported at 10:16 a.m.:

Accident in the 93s tunnel just after the garden. Black sedan collided with Boston commuter bus, then the sedan was t-boned by white pick up after bouncing off the bus.

The woman just jumped out of the car, ride-share driver says

By adamg - 10/1/19 - 9:07 am

WBZ interviews the driver of the car out of which a woman jumped in the middle of the O'Neill Tunnel yesterday morning, during a ride from Logan to Mattapan.

Woman gets out of a ride-share car in the O'Neill Tunnel at rush hour, is promptly hit by another car

By adamg - 9/30/19 - 11:25 am

WBZ reports the woman suffered life-threatening injuries and that a State Police investigation includes trying to get an answer to the question of why she got out of the ride-share car in the middle of the tunnel.

O'Neill Tunnel northbound? More like the O'Neill Tunnel fogbound

By adamg - 9/26/19 - 5:41 pm

Giedz reports a "very eerie" ride on I-93 northbound through the tunnel this rush hour.

Two motorcyclists dead in O'Neill Tunnel crash

By adamg - 6/8/19 - 9:42 am

Backup in the tunnel after the crash. Photo by KMV.

UPDATE: State Police have identify the dead men as Jerry Alphones, 28, of Everett, on a 2006 Honda CBR600, and Aralt Cesaire, 26, of Medford on a 2004 Suzuki GSX-R600, add: "Speed is believed to have been a factor."

State Police report a ride by several motorcyclists through the O'Neill Tunnel northbound around 2 a.m. ended with two of them crashing and dying. Read more.