Lori Henault spotted this message on signs on the turnpike in both Newton and downtown today, on Star Wars Day. Yes, it's a thing; Han needs to only toss his trash in approved garbage compactors.
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Massachusetts Turnpike
By adamg - 12/24/21 - 11:29 am
Part of a six-car crash on the Masspike near 128.
Welcome to Dot managed to escape this six-car smashup on the turnpike westbound near 128 this morning.
Then, barely a mile down the road, he crawled past another, smaller crash: Read more.
By adamg - 11/1/21 - 1:37 pm
State Police report an 18-year-old died on the Massachusetts Turnpike inbound early this morning after a crash in which he first veered to the left and hit the Jersey barriers along the high speed lane in his 2019 Civic, then bounced off the guard rails along the right side before coming to a halt against more Jersey barriers along the high-speed lane.
"Speed is believed to be a contributing factor" in the crash, in which Joseph Fournier, 18, of Burlington died around 1:40 a.m., State Police say.
By adamg - 9/29/21 - 8:43 pm
StreetsblogMass reports MassDOT announced today that it will be replacing the current elevated loop system where the Allston/Cambridge tolls used to be on the turnpike and the neighboring stretch of Soldiers Field Road with a $1.7-billion ground-level set of roads.
By adamg - 9/10/21 - 11:30 pm
Claire Sadar reports 9/11 truthers held banners over the turnpike at two locations in the Newton/Watertown area and bollixed traffic in Newton Corner during rush hour by deciding to hand out literature to motorists there about how jet fuel can't melt steel or something.
By adamg - 8/31/21 - 7:10 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports that around 3:45 p.m., firefighters responded to a report of a car fire on the turnpike in the Pru tunnel - which sent smoke into the first floor of Copley Place - and found the flaming car and two separate crashes, one involving six cars, the other two cars.
By adamg - 8/5/21 - 9:17 pm
State Police have detained a man in Westboro as they investigate an incident on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston around 6:20 p.m. in which a motorist had one of her windows shot out. Read more.
By adamg - 8/5/21 - 9:10 pm
Some of the emergency vehicles at the scene. Photo by We Paint the World.
State Police report a woman jumped off the Carlton Street overpass onto the outbound turnpike around 6:05 p.m.
Troopers and other first responders rushed to the scene and undertook emergency medical aid in an attempt to save her life. She sustained serious life-threatening injuries and has been transported to Tufts Medical Center.
By adamg - 4/26/21 - 9:32 pm
Ari Herzog could only watch in amazement this evening as Newton firefighters used a ladder truck, a thin lasso and a box to rescue a raccoon that had somehow survived crossing the turnpike and then climbed up the top of a light fixture sprouting from the Jersey barriers that separate the two sides of the highway.
Video: Read more.
By adamg - 4/20/21 - 1:26 pm
KTC shows us the brush fire on the side of the turnpike outbound this afternoon:
By adamg - 1/2/21 - 2:10 pm
Hannah Armstrong captured the flaming SUV on the Massachusetts Turnpike westbound, just before Exit 17 in Newton Corner, shortly after 1 p.m. today. State Police report no injuries and that Newton and Boston firefighters doused the flames.
By adamg - 8/27/20 - 3:07 pm
Bradley had plenty of time to observe a truck flipped on its side on the inbound turnpike near the Allston onramp shortly before 3 p.m. He noticed the driver appeared to have gotten out OK.
By adamg - 8/22/20 - 10:12 pm
A now ex-car. Photo by Spin.
Several vehicles, including an 18-wheeler, got entangled tonight on the Massachusetts Turnpike inbound near the IHOP in Brighton. Read more.
By adamg - 7/22/20 - 10:21 pm
Drew shows us the new message the Red Sox put up alongside the Massachusetts Turnpike in the Fenway.
By adamg - 4/25/20 - 10:59 am
Ari Ofesevit has been looking at the latest Massachusetts Turnpike traffic data (courtesy those toll gantry thingees) and while it's not surprising that people are simply driving a lot less on the highway in the Boston area in these Covid-19 days, it's still kind of amazing to see - and raises some questions about MassDOT toll revenue.
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