Boston Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge discusses safety issues on Centre Street.
Mayor Wu and City Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge told a packed auditorium at the Ohrenberger School tonight they are committed to making Centre Street safer through a reconfiguration that will include reducing the number of travel lanes on each side from two to one, with a new third lane in the center for left-turn lanes at intersections and for various "flex" uses, such as letting first responders speed to emergencies. Read more.
Update: Yep, it was the East Street bridge.
The MBTA reports Franklin Line train 754 is between 30 and 40 minutes late into Boston because yet another trucker has slammed into a bridge in Dedham. The T didn't say which bridge, but if we were a betting site, we'd put good money on the ol' East Street bridge, which gets hit by truckers enough to be made an honorary Storrow Drive bridge.
Expect more car-slowing speed humps, like this one on Evans Street in Mattapan.
City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.
Mayor Wu and her transportation chief today announced new measures to make Boston streets safer - including a revival of plans to turn Centre Street between the Holy Name Rotary and Spring Street in West Roxbury into a three-lane road with dedicated turn lanes, pedestrian islands and signal changes aimed at slowing down drivers and giving pedestrians better odds of being able to get from one side of the street to the other. Read more.
A.P. Blake captured the carnage (pickupage?) on Rte. 1 at the Lynnfield Tunnel around 11:30 p.m. yesterday.
The guy passed my wife and I in Saugus moments before crashing and was easily doing over 100, without a doubt. It was terrifying how quickly he went by. Crash sent chunks of concrete all over the road.
Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko came upon this charming message on the back of a BMW parked on Dix Street in Dorchester.
Not much of a skyline along the highway in 1971.
On May 17, 1971, photographer Gene Dixon snapped some shots of traffic on the Central Artery downtown. Read more.
State Police report a load of polyurethane dropped out of a tractor-trailer onto Rte. 128 southbound in Weston this morning, following yesterday's disgorgement of dirt and rocks in Lexington. The spill initially shut all three travel lanes, but State Police report all are now open again.
Tim had plenty of time to ponder the tipped-over dump truck on Rte. 128 north at Rte. 2 around 3:30 p.m., more than two hours after it lost verticality, because it jammed up the road like nobody's business. MassDOT reports the spill forced the shutdown of three lanes in each direction; State Police report there were injuries.
N spotted this newly unhitched boat inside the O'Neill Tunnel northbound today.
Back in 2015:
Yacht founders on icy shoals downtown.
Anusha Mookherjee spotted this sign on the inbound turnpike at Beacon Street in Kenmore Square today, which is, of course, Star Wars Day. Dianoga? What, you don't remember the scene in the trash compactor with the dianoga tentacle?
The Daily Free Press reports somebody called BU Police on the evening of April 28 to report "about 50 cars on the rooftop of the parking garage [at 730 Comm Ave.] revving their engines." Turned out to be members of the BU car club just doing some circle revving, but not anything wrong, so no need to send them on their way.
Police in Wellesley wish to remind the citizenry that it's not 1955 anymore. Read more.
The Boston Transportation Department (BTD) is looking at adding new dedicated bike lanes and crosswalks and traffic-slowing measures to the maelstrom at Cleveland Circle, where pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and trolleys all share an increasingly congested and complex intersection. Read more.
The Supreme Judicial Court concluded today that the way the State Police office responsible for testing blood-alcohol devices withheld information on machines that failed calibration tests for years was such "egregious government misconduct" that anybody convicted of OUI based on breath tests on machines tested there should be allowed to appeal without struggling to prove their tests were invalid. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports some Fields Corner merchants have asked BTD to look at installing meters as a way of freeing up some spaces from day-long freeloaders who park, then get on the Red Line.
Tyre Extinguishers, a British group whose preferred method of fighting climate change is to deflate the tires of large vehicles, says it let the air out of the tires of 43 vehicles on Beacon Hill last night. Read more.
A roving UHub photographer ran across this freshly shorn box truck sitting on North Harvard Street after a little run in with a bridge on nearby Soldiers Field Drive this morning. Read more.
A Roxbury man was arraigned today on charges he rammed into a car on Washington Street in Roslindale while making a turn, causing that vehicle to slam into two men enjoying a nice spring day, killing one of them and seriously injuring the other, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, charges, adding the man then ran from the scene. Read more.
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