Trevor Michaels spotted a Masshole inbound on Tremont Street at Ruggles this morning. He adds:
This dipshit nearly cut me off because they were in the wrong lane and turned left in that incorrect lane.
Trevor Michaels spotted a Masshole inbound on Tremont Street at Ruggles this morning. He adds:
This dipshit nearly cut me off because they were in the wrong lane and turned left in that incorrect lane.
Transit Police report the B Line was knocked out of commission for about 45 minutes around 9 p.m. on Wednesday after a driver somehow wound up facing towards Newton on the inbound tracks at Commonwealth Avenue and St. Thomas More Road. The driver of the diminutive sedan told police "he took a wrong turn and ended up stuck on the tracks." No injuries, at least.
The Boston Cyclists Union reports the death of Samuel Alvarado, 21, hit by a garbage truck at Cambridge and Hano streets in Allston Tuesday morning. Read more.
Boston Police report they are hunting a driver they say hit a pedestrian at Alford and Dexter streets then drove off as the man died, shortly after 3 a.m. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Mark Norton beholds the majesty of that rarest of occurrences: TWO TRUCKS jammed beneath a bridge on Storrow Drive at the same time this morning! And one of them is a City of Boston trash truck! It's a Christmas miracle!
Marcos surveyed the damage at Massachusetts and Westland avenues in the Fenway, after somebody slammed into the Boston map kiosk that had long stood there early this morning: Read more.
A crash involving a school bus and several vehicles outside the Henry Grew School, 40 Gordon Ave. in Hyde Park this morning injured a parent standing on the sidewalk as students were arriving for the day. Read more.
On April 24, 1949, an employee of the Boston Transportation Department took this shot of Blue Hill Avenue outbound at Columbia Road.
Note the trolleys on both roads (the reason both have paved medians -that's where the trolleys used to go) and compare to today's view: Read more.
A fed-up citizen filed a 311 complaint today about the gridlock at Harrison Avenue and Mullins Way as the more organically minded drive their SUVs and Priuses to the South End Whole Foods: Read more.
A roving UHub photographer happened upon this scene around on Mountview Street near Hastings Street in West Roxbury around 9:20 this morning. Read more.
MassDOT reports that the drawbridge, which connects both sides of Morrissey Boulevard, was reopened to traffic at 5:45 a.m. Read more.
This week the Boston Transportation Department completed the Centre Street "Road Diet" by repainting the freshly-paved West Roxbury thoroughfare.
The driver of a Jeep Grand Cherokee told police that when the Ford F-150 in front of him on Centre Street in West Roxbury wasn't moving, he figured he'd just swing around into the left lane and be on his way, according to a copy of a Boston Police report on a crash at the crosswalk at Centre and Maple streets around 3:40 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
The Beacon Hill Times reports the new North Washington Street Bridge, bedeviled by construction problems, will open to vehicle and pedestrian traffic on Dec. 9. Only one side of the bridge will be open to traffic in both directions - with final completion not expected until December, 2024, since contractors first have to take down the current temporary bridge to complete the inbound side of the permanent bridge.
A 53-year-old man walking across Centre Street in West Roxbury suffered head and rib injuries after being hit by an SUV near the TD Bank branch around 3:40 p.m. Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a Nissan Rogue parked in the bike lane on Tremont Street inbound just past Mass. Ave. in the South End with a very special message for bicyclists yesterday.
The long view: Read more.