The driver of a box truck proved no match for the Fenway overpasses on Storrow Drive this morning. Josh happened to be right there to catch all the peeled-back, tipped-over glory for what is clearly the best storrowing of this still young month. Read more.
Driving
By adamg - 8/4/20 - 3:49 pm
Clay N. Ferno captured the scene on Parsons Street after a crash shortly after 3:15 p.m. He reports Boston firefighters arrived not long after.
By adamg - 8/4/20 - 9:39 am
Live Boston reports somebody flipped their car on Seaver Street at Elm Hill Avenue around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, extricated himself, then ran away.
By adamg - 7/31/20 - 9:32 am
Streetsblog Mass chronicles the decades-long transformation of a playground on Foster Street into a parking lot - and notes the city recently agreed to spend $50,000 on the space, not to reinstall swings but to repave it for the cars.
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By adamg - 7/25/20 - 3:12 pm
Jed Hresko spotted a bike atop a whatever that is on Columbia Road in Dorchester today.
By adamg - 7/24/20 - 9:29 am
After news broke that Boston will re-start ticketing on street-sweeping days on Aug. 10, some concerned North End and Back Bay residents filed 311 complaints, such as: Read more.
By adamg - 7/23/20 - 11:22 am
For the second day in a row, a truck driver has discovered first hand why Storrow Drive entrances have those cute little "CARS ONLY" signs, jamming his vehicle under the outbound side of the train bridge by the BU bridge shortly after 11 a.m. Unlike yesterday's majestic 18-wheeler at Mass. Ave., this is just some trifling box truck from what appears to be a local beer distributor. And it doesn't even appear that the roof of the box has been peeled back.
By adamg - 7/22/20 - 4:50 pm
Sage was among the drivers who had plenty of time to appreciate the sheer majesty of the way the driver of an 18-wheeler managed to a) get on Storrow Drive inbound and b) jam his rig right into the underside of the Mass. Ave. Bridge shortly after 3:30 p.m.
By adamg - 7/22/20 - 11:25 am
Gary, of Gary's Liquors in West Roxbury, ventured out of his leafy bubble last night and drove down to the Seaport to enjoy a meal at Lola 42. Two hours later, he walked over to the Fan Pier Garage, put his ticket into the machine and was informed he owed $14,235 - which he could pay in cash. Read more.
By adamg - 7/21/20 - 10:01 pm
The Boston Transportation Department reports crews created a new pop-up bicycle lane on Tremont Street along the Common this evening as part of the city's Healthy Streets program.
H/t Adam C.
By adamg - 7/18/20 - 10:48 am
Live Boston was up early this morning and so was one of the first people to drive over the new, temporary North Washington Street Bridge, which will ferry traffic between the North End and Charlestown until the more permanent bridge is finished: Read more.
By adamg - 7/17/20 - 3:56 pm
Boston is asking transportation companies to show how they might set up a network of battery-powered cargo bikes to replace carbon-belching vans for "last mile" package and grocery delivery to Boston residents and businesses. Read more.
By adamg - 7/14/20 - 9:04 pm
WBZ reports; says BPD officers were told not to join what appeared to be a high-speed chase that ended at Deuxave at the corner of Commonwealth and Massachusetts avenues Monday night.
By adamg - 7/14/20 - 9:37 am
Wellesley Police report that Bacon Street is closed between Rte. 135 and Oak Street in Natick this morning thanks to the driver of a big rig who discovered too late his rig was too big for the Worcester Line train bridge. Crews and engineers are now on scene trying to remove the carcass and ensure the bridge is still structurally sound.
By adamg - 7/13/20 - 9:28 am
Concerned citizens kitty-corner from each other at the intersection of Gold and E streets in South Boston have filed 311 complaints with front and back photos of what they said was just the latest crash there and with requests the city do something: Read more.
By adamg - 7/8/20 - 4:59 pm
There's probably a good reason a driver heading south on Morrissey Boulevard this afternoon missed the warning siren, the flashing lights and the gate and plowed right off the road and into the bridge. Or as MassDOT put it so delicately: Read more.
By adamg - 7/7/20 - 9:37 am
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the crosswalk on Hyde Park Avenue at Eldridge Road in Jamaica Plain:
Every time a person crosses the street you get trapped in the middle of Hyde Park Ave terrified you're going to get run over. Vehicles do NOT stop for pedestrians. Please do something to force vehicles to stop for pedestrians before someone gets hurt.
By adamg - 7/4/20 - 9:13 pm
Pickup on fire. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports that after the driver of a pickup truck sped away from an attempted traffic stop near BPD headquarters early this morning, officers pursuing him were told to stop chasing him, but the guy just kept going - until he apparently rolled over the pickup at MLK Boulevard and Warren Street, crashing into a traffic pole as the pickup burst into flames. Read more.
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