Ric Duarte shows us Rte. 18 in New Bedford, suggests, "Umm ... better stay away!"
That's what happens when close to 4 inches of rain falls. The rain wasn't quite as intense up our way, but Eastie Strong shows what it did to Memorial Drive at the MicroCenter/Trader Joe's entrance:
ItalianInBoston asks:
Explain what this is? Recently put up after getting off Tobin Bridge headed to 93SB.
Boston cops on a stake out on W. 3 Street last night got what they were looking for: Two people they suspect are responsible for series of car break-ins in the South Boston waterfront area, according to Capt. John Greland at C-6.
On Terminal Street in Charlestown, around 11 a.m. An empty car was found shortly after on the bridge itself.
UPDATE: The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the man was a 37-year-old Newburyport resident. "Uniformed troopers and State Police detectives from our office are investigating, but the death is currently being investigated as a non-homicide."
Councilor Tito Jackson (Roxbury) says the city could boost revenue and free up downtown parking spaces by rolling out meters that accept payments via smartphones.
Jackson says the increased revenue would come by ending the current practice of people getting lucky and zipping into spaces that have time left on the meter - under a smartphone system, a meter would reset every time somebody new pinged the meter with a phone.
Lori Magno had no choice but to stop on Mystic Valley Parkway in Winchester Center due to a wind-driven pole this morning.
Michele Connors spotted a fuzzy thing at a dangerous angle in a car in Jamaica Plain the other day.
UPDATE, 10:31 a.m. State Police report the road is open again.
State Police reported a car-b-q around 9:40 a.m. on I-93 south at Furnace Brook. All lanes were shut to let the Quincy FD do its thing.
Ed. note: Rhyming headline because I had to get it out of my system, I'll try not to do that again, at least not for highway fires.
Robert Vellela photographed a car fire on Storrow Drive around 9:30 a.m. (another view).
Brian D'Amico photographed the lane restrictions on the turnpike headed toward the Pru Tunnel yesterday.
MassDOT will be restricting lanes in the tunnel the weekends of March 28, April 4 and April 25 to allow for removal of an old and no longer needed noise-buffering ceiling in the tunnel.
Copyright Brian D'Amico. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
Roving UHub photographer Lauren Reemsnyder captured the scene this morning as somebody blocked traffic on Comm. Ave. near Allston Street to keep a hawk from getting flattened - because hawks don't know you're supposed to cross at the green, not in-between.
UPDATE: Reemsnyder reports:
I don't know how he ended up on the street, but animal control came by and took him away a little while ago. I think he was injured because some idiot tried to get him to fly away by nudging him with a skateboard, but he wouldn't budge. It took animal control two seconds to get him into a cage and into the truck. Hopefully he'll be okay!
Narrowing the Pru Tunnel down to one lane for ceiling removal is doing a major number on traffic on the turnpike today. At 9:20 a.m, Evan Allen tweeted:
Avoid the pike westbound out of Boston! It is not moving at all.
A retired Cambridge cop can continue to drive while awaiting trial on charges he sent a man into the hospital in critical condition yesterday by plowing into him with his car in front of the Massachusetts Avenue T stop.
Alex Jones captured the noontime scene on Storrow Drive outbound, notes that at least the driver was alert enough to avoid getting storrowed by an overpass.
Crash site. Photo by Epic Stratton.
Updated.
A Quincy motorist plowed into a pedestrian crossing Massachusetts Avenue in front of the Orange Line station around 6 a.m., then just drove away, police say.
The victims remains in critical condition at a local hospital, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Lawrence Stead, 69, of Quincy, was arrested later in the morning in Quincy, after police traced the license-plate number of the gray, 1999 Mercury Marquis seen leaving the scene to his home.
A crash around 2:15 p.m. between Thatcher Street/Greenwood Avenue and Westminster Street left one car leaking gas onto the road across from a gas station, which led police to shut the road until it could be cleaned up.
Earlier:
Head-on crash between truck, car on Business Street.
Northeast Fire Alert reports a truck and a car collided head on Business Street shortly after 9 a.m. One driver was reported in critical condition. The road remained shut at 10 a.m. as police investigated.
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