Memorial Drive
It's always Labor Day weekend along the Charles
By adamg - 11/29/11 - 7:14 amMassDOT reports a truck got stuck under the Longfellow on Memorial Drive around 6:00 a.m., shutting the road, of course. And not just any truck: A big-ass truck.
The sea is angry, my friend
By adamg - 11/23/11 - 9:21 amGood Morning Gloucester has the Webcam pics to prove it.
Also, just like the state warned us, Morrissey Boulevard is closed due to wicked high tides, as Lauren Glynn shows us:
A sign can dream, can't it?
By adamg - 8/4/11 - 11:14 amThe Shell also rises
By adamg - 7/28/11 - 8:28 amWicked Local Cambridge reports the Charles River's other gas-company sign has gotten a $100,000 upgrade that includes energy-efficient LEDs.
Labor Day came early on Memorial Drive
By adamg - 7/27/11 - 9:06 amBeer truck driver learns why the state bans trucks on Mem. Drive; his beer, at least, is OK
By adamg - 11/2/10 - 9:14 am
Now an ex-beer truck Photo by Chris Devers, used under this license.
Terri O'Rourke reports a beer truck had its back sheared off, apparently by an alcohol-mad tree, on Memorial Drive by JFK Street this morning.
[I]t's a beer lovers paradise ... They're unloading all of it from back of the truck onto the sidewalk, on Memorial Drive.
The road was closed in both directions to let workers haul away the beer. Chris Devers tweets he saw cases of Heineken as he drove by.
Say, you don't usually hear about trucks crumpling under bridges on Memorial Drive
By adamg - 10/30/09 - 12:40 pmWicked Local Cambridge reports on an incident involving the driver of a truck from a shredding company shredding off the top of his truck on Thursday.
At least they'll have plenty of trunk room
By adamg - 10/13/09 - 11:03 amIt's time for the annual circus animal march down Mem. Drive, Msgr. O'Brien Highway and into the Garden, starts tonight at 7 p.m.
Masked men flee MIT dorm, crash car, run away
By adamg - 5/13/09 - 9:42 amMIT Police report on an incident Monday night involving six banditos in bandanas buzzed into a dormitory by a student expecting visitors:
An MIT officer followed the fleeing white Mitsubishi as it drove along Memorial Drive and several other streets before hitting a parked car, at which time all suspects exited the vehicle and fled the scene. Massachusetts State Police and Boston Police assisted in searching the area to no avail.
One of the suspects failed to pull up his bandana, was described as Asian, heavyset, with short cropped hair.
Is it September already?
By Kaz - 4/30/09 - 3:15 pmHaven't found a link just yet, but right outside of my office, an 18-wheeler lodged itself under the pedestrian bridge just west of BU Bridge on Memorial Drive. It seems that he was heading from the Allston-Brighton tolls to Microcenter and inexplicably missed the left turn into their parking lot, missed the warning signs for low height at the Shell station, and ended up 70% of the way under the pedestrian bridge before coming to a complete stop.
EDIT: Channel 5 has more details and video/pictures. Thanks, J258.
