A water-main break at 710 Gallivan Blvd., across from the CVS, has flooded and shut the road. Several buildings along Gallivan have taken on water.
Driving
By adamg - 6/13/19 - 7:30 pm
KMV reports first responders rushed to the boat ramp off Terminal Street in Charlestown after a Volvo station wagon somehow wound up in the water there. After divers found no sign of a person in the water, a major tow truck pulled it out of the water.
By jamieteevee - 6/12/19 - 3:01 pm
Traffic was interrupted today on Mass. Ave. Northbound as multiple rescue units responded to a man in the Charles River. He was pulled from the river and was breathing but unconscious when I took this picture. No more details were available.
By adamg - 6/11/19 - 4:06 pm
State Police report the ramps to and from the expressway at Exit 15 (Columbia Point) will be shut at 7 p.m. so workers can try to do something about that derailed Red Line train at JFK/UMass. When will they reopen? State Police say your guess is as good as theirs.
By damaskin - 6/10/19 - 6:54 am
The tower crane for the Little Building construction project will be dismantled the weekend of June 15th and June 16th, weather permitting. The crane removal will require closing Boylston Street
from South Charles to Tremont Street for vehicular traffic only. This work will start on Saturday, June 15, 2019, at 1:00 AM through Sunday, June 16, 2019, until 4:00 PM.
If there is inclement weather, the take down of the crane will occur on the following weekend of Saturday, June 22 and Sunday, June 23 with the same time frame listed above.
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.
By adamg - 6/7/19 - 9:54 am
In Boston, "punishment by transportation" really means having a green light at the intersection of Huntington Avenue and Mass. Ave., only you can't go, because the driver of a truck whose side promises an answer to the question of what "punishment by transportation" means went into the intersection even though he couldn't get through it and then got stuck, blocking traffic, as Phil Winley shows us.
By adamg - 6/6/19 - 6:06 pm
Kristin Johnson shows us the scene on Columbus Avenue at Cedar Street around 5:45 p.m.
By adamg - 6/3/19 - 10:17 pm
Chris Devers spotted these signs by a McGrath Highway entrance in Somerville today.
By adamg - 6/3/19 - 10:13 pm
DCR alerts us that from Tuesday until Monday, there'll be "rolling lane closures" along the Riverway, Jamaicaway and Arborway in both directions between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. to allow for tree pruning.
By adamg - 6/3/19 - 4:38 pm
We can only assume Rowes Wharf was handing out free welder's goggles to people looking at this car parked outside today, such as roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko.
By adamg - 5/30/19 - 11:12 am
Roving UHub reporter Katy B. watched the action this morning when a box-truck driver came face to face with a "CARS ONLY" sign on a ramp to Storrow Drive: He said screw this and hit the accelerator.
By adamg - 5/28/19 - 10:51 am
DCR reports it will be shutting Soldiers Field Road in both directions at the North Harvard Street between 10 p.m. tonight and 4 a.m. tomorrow to allow for routine bridge inspections.
By adamg - 5/26/19 - 3:57 pm
A disgusted citizen files a 311 complaint about the new black splotches on his or her car after driving under the train bridge over East Cottage Street in Dorchester:
There is tar dripping from the bridge. It dropped on my car and ruined the hood and roof.
By adamg - 5/25/19 - 6:48 pm
UPDATE, 7:29 p.m. Bridge is back down.
Jeannie Doherty reported at 6:42 p.m. that the venerable Beades Bridge, which lets motorists get on and off Morrissey Boulevard when it's not flooded, is stuck in the upright position. Read more.
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