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By adamg - 7/11/12 - 8:25 am

The true, final (well, so far) cost of the Big Dig is:

24 BILLION DOLLARS.

By adamg - 7/10/12 - 8:17 am

WBZ reports somebody walked along eight blocks of a Back Bay alley, keying dozens of cars sometime late Sunday or early Monday.

By adamg - 7/7/12 - 2:57 pm

Honorary Masshole

By adamg - 7/4/12 - 1:55 pm

UPDATE: City says hole is not at either 222 Cambridge St.; offers reward for hole's actual location.

Big holeSome hole.

By adamg - 7/3/12 - 11:16 pm

Updated Wednesday.

Boston Police report a 9-year-old boy died after being hit by a car at Columbia Road and Washington Street around 10:30 p.m.

By adamg - 7/3/12 - 3:53 pm

The MBTA reports it's shutting its Quincy Center garage starting tomorrow due to decaying concrete - and that it has no date for re-opening it.

Weekly inspections have revealed water damage and patterns of concrete deterioration within the parking facility. With public safety as a top priority, the MBTA has decided to close the garage indefinitely. There are no issues with the Red Line and Commuter Rail Stations at Quincy Center. The MBTA will work in cooperation with the City of Quincy with respect to any future decisions regarding the garage.

By adamg - 7/1/12 - 6:16 pm
Bay Bypass map

Vincent Zarrilli, who's been pushing this idea of a double-decked bridge across Dorchester Bay and Boston Harbor since the 1980s, is still at it. We spotted this flier taped to the side of City Hall yesterday.

By adamg - 7/1/12 - 11:05 am

Grass Fed, car smashed

By adamg - 6/27/12 - 3:26 pm

State Police announced today they've terminated Adam Paicos, a trooper caught off duty driving the wrong way on Memorial Drive in April. In a statement, State Police add:

On a date in May, Paicos was observed by a senior command officer engaged in further conduct unbecoming a state trooper, also while off-duty. Paicos was still on probationary employment status when the incidents occurred. The internal investigation into the Memorial Drive incident is ongoing.

By adamg - 6/25/12 - 10:24 pm

Bad crash

By adamg - 6/24/12 - 4:42 pm

Deer crossing

These signs are pretty much the first thing you see after turning onto Truman Parkway from Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park.

Earlier:

By adamg - 6/23/12 - 4:55 pm

Boston Police report finding a woman with severe head trauma around 4:45 a.m. at River and Rosa streets. She was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was declared dead.

Police say they're looking a black Jeep Liberty that raced toward Cleary Square without stopping. It has a black wheel cover with red and blue lettering.

By adamg - 6/20/12 - 9:59 pm

State Police are investigation a collision at the West Roxbury/Dedham line around 7:15 p.m. that left a motorcyclist pinned under a pickup truck before he was extricated and transported to Beth Israel Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Stephen Walsh, who took this photo of the motorcycle, reports the motorcyclist has died.

By adamg - 6/20/12 - 11:47 am

At 11 a.m., Stadol reported:

Just passed 5 cars that have overheated on 95. State Police were helping out.

Matt Noyes at NECN says now would be a good time to ensure your car's tires are inflated properly:

Prime time later today, especially tomorrow, for tire blowouts. Preventable - Almost always from low tire pressure.

By adamg - 6/18/12 - 3:28 pm

Motorcycle remains

State Police are investigating a crash on the Mass. Ave. Bridge around 2:30 p.m. that left a motorcyclist dead.

State Police released few details except that the motorcycle rider was a 20-year-old man who was pronounced dead at the scene and that driver of the SUV is being treated for "emotional distress."

Doug, who took this photo, said the SUV "had major front damage and airbag deployment."

Another view from the WBZ helicopter.

The driver of a Boston-bound 1 bus eventually executed a U-turn to get back to Cambridge:

By adamg - 6/16/12 - 8:59 am

CentralSquare.com reports the Harvest Coop on Mass. Ave. will be replaced with an H Mart, which specializes in Asian foods. Renovations will take about six months.

The Harvest is moving into smaller quarters across the street.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 11:38 pm

Leaky truck. Photo by BFD.Leaky truck. Photo by BFD.

Updated Friday morning.

Crews worked through the night to contain and clean up a gasoline spill from a tanker truck whose driver managed to bust open valves on its side, sending more than 1,000 gallons of gas into the street and Dorchester Bay, shutting Dorchester Avenue at Freeport and Hancock and forcing the evacuation of 44 nearby residents.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 2:46 pm

Leroy "Hitman" Martin, 34, of Brighton, was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail at his arraignment on a variety of charges related to a high-chase from Revere to Cambridge that ended with him under arrest in the Kendall Square T stop.

By adamg - 6/14/12 - 8:25 am

Ryan Sawyer has started a project to map all the streets in the Boston area that are limited to people with resident-only stickers or otherwise restricted. He's set up a map on which you can add restricted streets, says:

I completed the entire city of Medford (since the parking restricted streets were readily available on the MPD's website), but the other towns/neighborhoods like Boston, Allston/Brighton, Cambridge, etc are not as easy to track down.

By adamg - 6/13/12 - 8:59 pm

Mike Ball, these days hobbling around with several broken ribs and his arm in a sling, recounts what happened when he dared yell at a driver who almost took him out at a crosswalk on River Street in Hyde Park today: A cop came out of nowhere and started yelling at him:

Unbelievably, he told me:

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