About the last thing you expect to see while you're driving on an interstate is a live turkey in the car next to you, giving you the eye. But there the bird was, around 7:30 p.m. in a Hyundai with Maryland plates, heading north on I-95 in Sharon.
Photo by Greta Gaffin.
Over at Bostonography, Andy Woodruff muses on the Bostonish way we often have to have two sets of directions - one for getting from A to B and one for getting back from B to A:
Boston-area navigation is difficult enough on foot; throw in one-way streets and turn restrictions and you've got a vehicular nightmare. (Don't get me wrong: I'm as hip as the rest of you and almost never drive a car in town, but these problems occur once in a while.)
In the early 1960s, MIT professor Kevin Lynch did a three-minute time-lapse movie of a car trip from Cambridge to Brookline. Now somebody's recreated the ride on a bicycle.
Via Bostonography.
Boston University has bought three on-campus streets from the city for $11.45 million. Their plan is to turn the roads into a "pedestrian mall" for now, although the university master plan uses some of the space to redevelop and expand science laboratory buildings along the roads.
Signs went up along the roads recently announcing the removal of all public parking on July 30th, which includes over 100 meters and unmetered space for about a dozen handicap-designated vehicles. The information on the signs informed people to call the University's Transportation Department, whose website also contains further information.
Richard Jeanetti, an off-duty Boston officer, was released on personal recognizance today at his arraignment for drunk driving and other charges related to a May crash in Hyde Park that sent a woman to the hospital with a broken leg and a broken vertebra, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
State Police report a woman gave birth in the back seat of a car stuck in traffic on Rte. 16 this afternoon.
The traffic was at a near standstill due to malfunctioning traffic lights at Wellington Circle, State Police said in a statement. When a frantic 911 call came in around 1:30 p.m. about a woman who appeared to be about ready to give birth, state troopers rushed to Rte. 16 on foot to try to get cars off the road - so that the driver could get her to the hospital in time. It didn't work:
A concerned citizen reports this toilet has been parked on Charter Street for several days now.
Andrea Karis reports a Bud Lite truck got stuck on Storrow just before the Fenway exit this morning. John Beattie reports the location near BU, says it's too bad school is out.
An aggrieved citizen reports on somebody using a traffic cone to save a space on Samoset Street in Dorchester.
Why dies this man insist in using a privilege not allowed others?
Why indeed? The city promptly marked the case closed, after reporting the cone was removed for disposal.
Update, 7:40 a.m., Tuesday: MassDOT reports all lanes in both directions are now open.
State Police shut the highway in both directions around 10 p.m. when a tanker with about 8,000 gallons of gasoline rolled over and began leaking. Fire and hazmat crews from across the area are staging in the Woburn Mall parking lot to try to control the leak.
Why, yes, that was a limo driving down Stuart Street this evening with an anatomically correct naked blow-up man perched on the sunroof:
On the other hand, traffic along Blue Hill Avenue by the entrance to the Franklin Park Zoo is a complete mess today.
1. Boston and Chelsea firefighters testing pipes on the Tobin Bridge intended to carry water in the event of a fire.
The Boston Fire Department reports crews this morning are testing the standpipes that bring water to the roadways - they are supposed to withstand 200 lbs. of pressure for two hours.
The first test this morning was stopped as a valve did not hold and water started flowing out. That is being fixed.
A day after we learned the alleged final cost of the Big Dig, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled the way the then turnpike authority shifted toll revenues to Big Dig construction costs was perfectly legal.
A bunch of turnpike commuters had challenged the money shifting, arguing it amounted to an unconstitutional tax, because they were paying for a new road system they might not use.
A Proper Bostonian spots and photographs the mystery Tesla roadster of Beacon Hill:
[I]t's a very rare, very quiet, all-electric sportscar for people who like to go sneaking around at high speeds without being heard.
Down in one of the hollows that surrounds Beacon Hill, Penny Cherubino spots and photographs the mystery generic crapster of the Back Bay, so filled with stuff the driver can barely squeeze in.
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