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Tractor-trailer being loaded onto barge at Long Island partially slips off
By adamg on Tue, 11/25/2014 - 11:21am
UPDATE, 11:42 a.m. Cab is out of the sand. Nothing found leaking into the water.
The truck slipped off tracks onto the bard around 11 a.m. and its cab's tires wound up in sand by the island's dock.
According to the mayor's office:
Earlier today, a truck on Long Island partially slipped off of a plank while in the process of being loaded onto a barge, to bring items from Long Island to the mainland. The truck bed landed in the sand, and there was no damage or any diesel leakage as a result of this slippage. Boston Fire, the Coast Guard, and the Boston Police all responded, but no emergency services were needed. A second attempt to load the truck to the barge was successful.
The Boston Public Health Commission has been using trucks and large containers to move the belongings of former residents and workers to the mainland. The city shut the Long Island Bridge as a safety hazard on Oct. 8., giving the various programs there only four hours to evacuate residents and staffers.
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The Olympics
will fix it!
Is the poet OK?
Great, so some poor homeless
Great, so some poor homeless person's belongings went in the drink...
Model of incompetence
This whole Long Island fiasco from beginning to end is a model of incompetence.
Why no ferry service ?
Can anyone explain why the city of Boston did not arrange for a ferry to make a few trips a day to Long Island? It would have been much easier for the people and the programs that use the island to commute by ferry, for at least a few months, until a smooth transition to new quarters had been arranged on the mainland. With the tourist season over, there are certainly a few under-used ferries that could have been put into service.Instead, we've uprooted some of the most vulnerable people in our city and ended some of the programs that support them. Why?????
But then they wouldn't have
But then they wouldn't have an excuse to close the facility.
On a serious note, I think it's a bad idea to have a vulnerable population trapped on an island with no fire or other emergency services. If someone needs an ambulance, you have to wait for one to come over by ferry?
Gina
There were adequate emergency services on the island and in many ways it provided a more secure, serene atmosphere than the chaos and noise they're now encountering in all of the ad hoc, temporary shelters. So it was a better place for this confused, vulnerable population.
I think the city did a very bad job dealing with this problem. No cudos to anyone.
Blame a moronic system
where a bridge is allowed to decay because local in a neighboring community are allowed to block plans for needed repairs FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASONS!
For critical emergencies, why not helicopters?
People are airlifted to area hospitals all the time.
For non-critical emergencies, maybe ferry service would suffice
And for routine medical care, I assume there had always been plenty of on-site caregivers, given the nature of the population they service.
State won't license it
Apparently, ferries and helicopters are just too risky in bad weather and the state won't give the city a license for shelters on an island without a bridge.