BU Bridge
By adamg - Wed, 04/06/2016 - 7:45am

Alive, around 7 a.m., according to Northeast Fire Alert.

Looking over the side of the BU Bridge
By adamg - Wed, 01/20/2016 - 6:28pm

UPDATE, 7 p.m. A thermal scanner mounted on a State Police helicopter found no evidence of a body; firefighters began packing up to leave.

Around 6:15 p.m., based on a phone call. Police and firefighters from both Boston and Cambridge are on scene and searching the Charles River.

Police giving out free helmets to bicyclists without them
By adamg - Thu, 09/17/2015 - 10:42am

Turlach MacDonagh reports police were giving out free helmets to bicyclists without them this morning on Comm. Ave. at the BU Bridge.

Photo copyright Turlach MacDonagh. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Lights out on Commonwealth Avenue at the BU Bridge
By adamg - Mon, 02/23/2015 - 9:11am

Jonathan Levitt give us a taste of the chaos around 9 when the lights went out on Comm. Ave. by the bridge.

Emergency crews on the BU Bridge
By adamg - Wed, 02/04/2015 - 11:21am

Updated, 2:15 p.m.

Damian Drella reports:

Fog over downtown Boston and the Charles River
By adamg - Fri, 10/17/2014 - 8:28am

Ari Ofsevit enjoyed the view of the fog from the BU Bridge this morning.

By adamg - Thu, 03/20/2014 - 4:42pm

Large numbers of BPD officers descended on the Esplanade and the BU Bridge shortly after 4 p.m., when a 911 caller reported a man in camouflage running around near the bridge with a rifle.

Tanker almost hits overpass on Storrow Drive
By adamg - Tue, 09/03/2013 - 1:28pm

Unluckily for him, Brian Clarke wound up right behind this tanker truck around 1 p.m. on Storrow Drive. Luckily for him, the driver stopped before proving that you can't drive a truck under a train bridge under a car bridge while a plane flies overhead.

Ed. note: Even though it doesn't seem like the tank is filled with anything flammable, can you imagine how long it would take to clean up the mess after the top of the thing was torn off?

Peeled truck
By adamg - Tue, 06/18/2013 - 5:22pm

Boston Ward 4 Dems snapped the latest BU Bridge/Grand Junction casualty: A truck whose driver apparently and rather suddenly lost the ability to read, right in the middle of t

By adamg - Mon, 04/08/2013 - 9:55am

Drivers this morning were not prepared for yesterday's shutdown of the overpass on the Cambridge side of the BU Bridge - although they'll now have six months t

By adamg - Fri, 04/05/2013 - 4:50pm

The state Department of Transportation says it's shutting the overpass on the Cambridge side of the BU Bridge on Sunday for some major repairs:

By adamg - Tue, 10/09/2012 - 6:14pm

Investigators have positively identified the body pulled out of the Charles River near the BU Bridge this morning as that of Jonathan Dailey, a Boston Architectural College student who went missing last week, the Suffolk County District Attorney's offic

By adamg - Wed, 09/26/2012 - 6:45pm

Fall leaves.

By adamg - Tue, 07/31/2012 - 3:07pm

You get a bigger crane - in this case, to right a crane that tipped over on the BU Bridge.

By adamg - Sun, 05/15/2011 - 1:48pm

Night on the Charles

By Kaz - Thu, 09/23/2010 - 5:56pm

75 bike riders have received tickets so far this afternoon as the city has chosen to crack down on traffic violations around the BU Bridge on Commonwealth Avenue.

By adamg - Mon, 02/22/2010 - 10:54pm

The BU Bridge was closed for repairs tonight, but apparently nobody told at least one driver on the 47 bus. Marti V. tweeted her ride from the Boston side of the river to Central Square tonight:

By adamg - Sat, 09/12/2009 - 5:18pm

The Outraged Liberal reports he made the mistake of trying to take a bus from Kenmore Square to Harvard Avenue and now wonders: