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Smashing in the snow
By adamg on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 5:56pm
Darcy Hofmann came upon this crash at Washington Street and Melnea Cass Boulevard this afternoon. She reports kids on the bus walked off and looked OK.
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Comments
Downhill
Looks like the DPW should have put some salt and sand on that hill. Pretty steep, no wonder they couldn't stop.
Looks like someone driving
Looks like someone driving behind a school bus in a manner unsafe for road conditions.
Good thing they only rear-ended the bus, rather than hitting a kid.
Must suck to realize you're
Must suck to realize you're about to rear-end a school bus.
Melnea Cass couldn't be a
Melnea Cass couldn't be a more hideous piece of urban design and traffic inefficiency if they tried.
I disagree, anonymous c.
I disagree, anonymous c. Although MC's light sequencing leaves something to be desired, it's clear that whole corner of the city would be a complete cl*sterf* Without Melnea Cass. Can you imagine the huge volume of traffic that flows (nearly constantly) from the western half of the city to/from the expressway interchange trying to do the same by going through the Mass Ave/Tremont intersection? <shudder>
Given the typical speed of traffic on that stretch, and the braking distance of a small car vs a bus, I wouldn't be suprised if the person behind the wheel was yakking/texting on their cell and didn't even notice the bus until they were nearly under it.
Can we please dispense with the
knee jerk "they must've been yakking or texting on their cellphone" reaction every time there's a vehicle crash.
It's getting old.
Woulda shoulda coulda beena highway
Melnea Cass is what happens when you start to build an "inner bypass" to help North-South drivers who don't want to go downtown on the highway...then stop mid-project.
Originally, it was supposed to be cleared out so that a new highway would run through that area, cut across North Brookline, cross the Charles right next to the BU Bridge, cut past Central/Kendall in Cambridge, and end up reconnecting with 93 up near Somerville/Medford. When the project died, they just put in Melnea Cass instead.
Hmm, sounds familiar. Spend a
Hmm, sounds familiar.
Spend a lot of money to cover a large arc of "inner ring suburbs" with an ugly elevated highway.
(Then decades later, pay $30 billion to put it all underground)