A group of West Roxbury residents who say they support the city's plans to slow traffic on Centre Street will hold a "walk and roll" from the post office down to Holy Name Rotary at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.
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By adamg - 7/6/23 - 3:06 pm
Boston today announced plans to expand its EV charge network beyond municipal parking lots to include streetside chargers that would let even apartment dwellers consider replacing their gas-powered cars with electric models - to meet an ultimate city goal of having chargers within a ten-minute walk of every Boston resident. Read more.
By adamg - 7/5/23 - 1:55 pm
State Police report a woman in a wheelchair died Monday afternoon after the driver of the van she was in veered off the Riverway and into a tree at the intersection with Longwood Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 7/3/23 - 5:11 pm
WBUR reports City Councilor Kendra Lara (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury), was cited for driving an unregistered car with a revoked license, no insurance and an expired inspection sticker for a crash into a house on Centre Street Friday afternoon. Both she and her young son were injured.
By adamg - 7/3/23 - 9:46 am
An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about how National Grid covered a hole at Alford Street and Maffa Way in Charlestown:
What in the literal f is this? Get National Grid’s tacky ass over here to fix this pit
By adamg - 7/2/23 - 3:52 pm
Crash scene at St. Michael Cemetery on Canterbury Street this afternoon.
Boston Police report arresting a local man on a variety of gun charges early this morning after he allegedly crashed into a State Police cruiser at an entrance to St. Michael Cemetery on Canterbury Street on the Roslindale/Jamaica Plain line around 12:30 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 6/30/23 - 9:06 pm
Live Boston reports City Councilor Kendra Lara and her young son were injured when she drove into the house at 803 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain this afternoon.
The Globe reports both she and her son required care for cuts and that the councilor said she swerved to keep from crashing into another car.
By adamg - 6/29/23 - 9:39 am
See it larger for full effect. Photo by Ari Ofsevit.
Ari Ofsevit was on hand for an almost-storrowing that turned into a backup of shame on the inbound side of Soldiers Field Road by Cambridge Street in Allston this morning. He reports the effort to get the 18-wheeler off the road led to a more than 15-minute road shutdown that, of course, resulted in a massive backup. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/23 - 9:41 pm
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that car dealerships that loan out cars to customers awaiting repairs to their own vehicles are in the rental business, and that means they are covered by a federal law that prohibits their financial liability for any problems caused by the cars' drivers - even if they are unlicensed and in a car that wasn't supposed to be taken out of state. Read more.
By adamg - 6/27/23 - 8:01 am
Photo by TPD.
Transit Police report that at 5:30 this morning, somebody in a Honda SUV drove into the back of an MBTA bus outside Kenmore station. The driver then ran away, police say, adding what was left of his or her SUV was towed away. The bus was driven away.
By adamg - 6/19/23 - 2:11 pm
Chad Boudreau gives us the visual of Storrow Drive's latest victim, under one of the can-opener Kenmore ramps. Read more.
By adamg - 6/14/23 - 8:02 am
Matthew Smith shows us the aftermath of a car into a pole on North Shore Road near Revere Street in Revere around 2:15 a.m.
By adamg - 6/10/23 - 10:34 pm
Kaitlin snapped this guy outbound on the turnpike at Clarendon Street this evening.
Earlier:
Pike bike in Allston.
By adamg - 6/6/23 - 10:30 pm
WFXT reports on a crash involving Mayor Wu's city Mustang EV and another car on Hyde Park Avenue at Blakemore Street in Roslindale this afternoon. WCVB reports no major injuries.
By adamg - 6/5/23 - 11:01 am
Live Boston reports an SUV flipped over on its side at Columbia Road and Seaver Street about 12:30 a.m.
By adamg - 6/4/23 - 12:31 pm
Shamus Moynihan reports heading over to Angell Animal Medical Center on South Huntington Avenue at Castleton Street from his nearby home after hearing "a long tire screech" and then the sound of a car crashing into the brick wall the MSPCA apparently had the forethought to put up along its property.
By adamg - 6/2/23 - 4:48 pm
Erica Fletcher reports Boston police and firefighters had their work cut out for them this afternoon trying to untangle two cars that careened together at the oddball intersection of Washington Street with itself and South Street at the tip of Adams Park - and dealing with the resulting traffic nightmare at the start of the afternoon rush. Read more.
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