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Leaking gasoline tanker stopped along the Greenway today
By adamg on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 11:26pm
NorthEndWaterfront.com reports police spotted the leak before the truck could explode and called in the fire department, which activated its hazmat team. The full tanker took exactly the North End route that spurred the city to try to bar all tankers from the city that aren't making local deliveries.
The state holds a hearing on Boston's proposed tanker ban on Aug. 23 at the state Transportation Building in Park Sqaure.
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Let us weigh it all out on the scale.
Let me weigh this out now.
A tanker explodes on the greenway? Or a tanker explodes in no-pedestrian/no-mans/who cares I throw trash out my window at 60mph land 128? Parts of the North End and Quincy Market burns down? Or parts of a swamp and maybe parts of a strip mall or office park burn down?
Sorry Suburbanites there is a reason you don't have millions of tourist flocking to your cul-de-sac subdivision or Strip mall, or Office park. You live in a cliché landscape. Downtown Boston is one of a kind and worth protecting. This is just my honest opinion.
I am sure you walk up and down 128 and know every little nook and cranny. I’m sure you have picnics on the grass median. I’m sure you spend millions planting flowers and shrubs. Who am I to say what landscape is worth protecting more from possible catastrophe. Lets all weigh it out together.
PS the North End is going to be on Chronicle Tonight. Instead of a story on Hanover Street they should have done a story on the grass median of Route 128.
The tanker explosion which
The tanker explosion which occurred 2 wks ago happened on RT.1 (not 128) in Saugus, a densely-trafficked and populated area, It killed the driver, set a brook on fire and burned a few buildings including some homes and a family-owned greenhouse business. The only reason there weren't more casualties was it happened in the middle of the night.
These things are dangerous wherever they go. No need to get snarky.
Not only that
But not all are just traveling through.
How in the hell do you think goods and fuel get into the city / shops around here? Unicorn dust?
While it shouldn't be a through route for lazy drivers, there are times when Hazmat material trucks need to use certain roads. It's made even worse because they can't go into the tunnels, and no one though it a bright idea to make detour tunnel for them.
Hazmat trucks go through Boston
not because the drivers are lazy, but because it's usually the most direct route from the fuel depot to their destination.
Unless you'd rather they waste their time, burn more fuel, create more pollution, and cost their employers more money by taking long and unnecessary detours instead - which is exactly what will happen under Menino's proposed ban.
Leaking gasoline tankers..a Menino self-fulfilling prophecy
Is Menino using selective enforcement by BPD to fulfill his prophecy that these trucks are going to all of a sudden start blowing up the city? The news photos say it all, with little sense of urgency or caution on the part of the first responders or the tanker driver who is apparently being allowed to lean against the "dangerous" truck! Hardly the protocol for a legitimate fuel leak from a lawnmower, never mind a tanker. What was the estimate of the amount of fuel that "leaked" from the truck? Shame on Menino for using the BPD for political purposes, again.
Hmmm ...
What would be easier for a would-be domestic or international terrorist:
1) blowing up a LNG tanker
3) embedding a driver to spill a load at a critical place
2) shooting at a truckload of gas from an apartment window
Out of curiosity, is there
Out of curiosity, is there any issue you CAN'T twist into being part of the nefarious Menino agenda? It's not that we don't love your borderline-schizophrenic ramblings in every thread, I'm just curious as to when we can expect to see you over in the BPL Photo Archive threads, loudly insisting that the mayor was responsible for graft and corruption in 19th century Boston.
Re: Out of curiosity, is there....
Actuallly, it's getting more and more difficult to find things that aren't part of the nefarious Menino agenda. This one was just too obvious. Two decades as Mayor and suddenly gasoline tankers are too dangerous for the city? Spare me. Glad that Joe Tanker (who I don't know) weighed in below confirming that my "bordeline schizophrenic ramblings" are 100% accurate in this case. More gasoline is spilled daily by homeowners filling their lawnmowers. It's a shame that the spoonfed media accept Menino's stories verbatim, dutifully licking the spoon and crying for more without any pushback. Now about those scooters and mopeds that are contributing to gang violence...
tanker leak
Let me make a comment on the leak of the tanker yesterday. I have first hand info. on that leak. The amount of gas being released or spilled was one drop of gas every 45 seconds. The truck was parked where you see the driver leaning on the tanker for 3 hrs, and the amount of gas that was spilled was approximately less than one ounce. Trust me I know, I was there. And according to some the officials at the scene, the problem could have been resolved in less than 10 mins. but because it is currently a crusade for the mayor to eliminate tankers from the city of Boston, everyone at the scene had to CYA. If anyone wants to get the real story, get the real info. from the hazmat team that was there (off the record). If it was a dangerous situation, what was the head of the Menino's Transport Department doing hanging around the driver, (see Herald picture person next to the driver in the Transportation Sec.) If it was truly dangerous he would not have been next to the truck. OH BY THE WAY MAYOR, THE AMOUNT OF FUEL THAT WAS DRAINED FROM THE TANKER TUBE TO RESOLVE THE SITUATION WAS A WOPPING 1 1/2 GALLONS.
MAYOR GROW UP AND GET THE REAL STORY!