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West Roxbury Parkway

Best license plate of the week

Spotted on a Mini Cooper on the West Roxbury Parkway in West Roxbury: Mass. plates reading:

WKDSML

Avoid the left lane on the West Roxbury Parkway south at Washington

Unless you want to get a flat from all the broken glass left behind from an accident earlier today.

Big mess by Putterham rotary

The Tab reports a big water main break at Grove and South streets is making a mess of traffic. Officials are working with Temple Emeth to minimize the impact on Rosh Hashahnah services.

Props to the contractor on the West Roxbury Parkway repaving project

Normally, when a road gets torn up, you can expect weeks of unremitting commuting pain as you navigate among the barrels and raised grates. I was certainly expecting that when crews started tearing up the parkway between Washington Street and just past Bellevue Hill Road on Monday. But by last night, they were actually finished - the road is nice and smooth and all that's left is to put down the permanent lane stripes.

Poor woman

Flood

Every time there's a heavy rain, this woman, who lives on the southbound side of the VFW Parkway, just past the West Roxbury Parkway, dons her boots and raincoat and goes out with a rake to try to keep the storm drain and "dry" catchbasin outside her house clear, to minimize the damage from flooding. She's been doing that a lot lately.

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West Roxbury, South Brookline swept away by flooding, sinkholes

Tammy must have one of those old Amphibicars. How else to explain how she survived flooding and a Florida-style sinkhole on the West Roxbury Parkway near where it meets the VFW Parkway after today's storm?

West Roxbury Parkway speed traps

Charles Glassberg flashes his lights:

Just a reminder to you Boston-area drivers that the traps at the VFW Parkway/West Roxbury Parkway rotary and by the Putterham Golf Course are still in full effect. ...