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Does the MBTA have an alternate route policy?

By jcb 1956 on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 11:32am

A week or so ago I was taking the 39 (slow boat to China) bus from Copley to close to Forest Hills. When we got to the Mission Hill area we came to a standstill.

There had been an accident. We sat there for a while and then a cop talked to the bus driver. The driver then told us that we could wait for over an hour or walk. So most of us chose to walk, on that 90 degree day. I was overdressed and overburdened with library books and close to dehydrated by the time I got home.

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Rally at City Hall to save a South Boston community center

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 11:16am

Supporters of the Walsh Center in South Boston plan a rally at City Hall tomorrow (Congress Street side) between 4 and 6 p.m.

Organizer Edward McGuire, a student at the Boston Collegiate Charter School, says he doesn't want his "second home" to become victim to political theater:

Our community is sending a message to City Hall and our elected officials that the Walsh Community Center is not negotiable and children’s lives are not for sale. The Walsh Center is a safe haven for South Boston youth. Children trust the staff and enjoy the programming, and there is no other place for the community youth to go if this facility is closed. Why allow the non-profits to take over and change a program that is a proven taxpayer success?

The center is one of several City Hall wants to stop funding to save money.


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Three injured when car plows into parked Ride van in Kenmore Square

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:43am

Channel 7 reports on the early morning collision on Comm. Ave.


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Hope you didn't have reservations for the 33 restaurant tonight

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 10:06am

It has ceased to be, Boston Restaurant Talk reports.

The closing comes eight months after a man was stomped to death in a fight outside the bar.


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Volcano disrupts flying fish

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 9:50am

WBUR reports on Eyjafjallajökull-caused disruption in the local seafood industry - we couldn't get pallets of fresh European fish, while the monkfish and scallop harvesters of New Bedford couldn't fly their frozen seafood to Europe.


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Somerville square gets chairs

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 9:23am

The Somerville News reports on one artist's project to place 20 to 25 outdoor chairs in Union Square. And before you even think about it, she's talking to local businesses about locking them up at night.


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The Cambridge company you've never heard of that has Google over a barrel

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 9:14am

Bloomberg, via the Times, reports Google could be about to spend $1 billion on ITA Software, a Kendall Square company that sells airline-scheduling applications - of the sort a giant search engine might need if it wanted to begin providing flight information for travelers.

Stephen Laniel, who once worked there, explains why the company could be worth that much: They're the only people who have really figured out how to get the cheapest fare from A to B (Orbitz, for one, is based on their software).

... ITA is sitting on the best kind of monopoly you can hope for: they've solved a problem that no one else can solve. ...


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Another person struck, killed by commuter-rail train north of Boston

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 8:57am

UPDATE: Sounds like suicide by train - Martin Clinton was at the station and saw the person jump.

This time, in Winchester, Channel 25 reports. The Lowell line is, of course, now experiencing major delays.

On Monday, a boy, 13, was struck and killed by a train while walking on the tracks.


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Statewide, libraries cutting back as well

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 8:27am

Jessica Baumgart provides some details on the imminent smushing together of the state's six regional library systems into a single Mass. Library System due to budget cutbacks.


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What do the hipsters of Allston have against Urban Outfitters?

By adamg on Wed, 04/21/2010 - 8:10am

Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports police are looking for "three skinny male suspects" in dark clothes and riding bikes (fixies, no doubt) for throwing "half a red brick" through a couple of windows at the Harvard Avenue store.

Have they struck before?


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