An upset citizen files a 311 complaint about the way one Jamaica Plain resident has taken to recharging a Volvo by way of an extension cord out from the house and across the sidewalk: Read more.
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By adamg - 9/22/23 - 11:53 am
How do you charge a Volvo XC-90? Very slowly with an extension cord.
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By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:41 pm
Some 20 to 30 feet of a retaining wall behind 121 Tremont St. in Oak Square in Brighton gave way around 8:45 p.m. after a tree fell on it, leading to a mudslide that partially buried two or three cars in the building's parking lot. Nobody inside the cars, at least.
By adamg - 9/18/23 - 9:11 am
RadRebe was among those jammed on Storrow Drive when an 18-wheeler driver somehow missed those "CARS ONLY" signs and got on Storrow Drive outbound around 6:30 a.m. - and then had to make a long, slow backup of shame after stopping just before shearing off the top of his cab at a pedestrian bridge. Read more.
By adamg - 9/13/23 - 10:19 am
Proposed bollards on Boylston Street.
The Apple Store, 815 Boylston St. goes before the Back Bay Architectural Commission tomorrow for a review of its plans for bollards in the sidewalk out front to ward off the sort of crash that killed one and injured nearly two dozen at the Apple Store in Hingham last year. Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/23 - 10:10 pm
Flooded Newbury Street, photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reported at 9:35 p.m. that a water main burst at 337 Newbury St, between Mass. Ave. and Hereford Street and was sending water all the way down to Gloucester Street. Read more.
By adamg - 9/10/23 - 1:06 pm
A South Hadley man last week filed what he hopes will be a class action against Mapfre USA over the way hackers obtained personal information for Massachusetts drivers from its get-a-quote Web site. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 11:19 am
Incipient Lake Maverick.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the sinkole of unusual size forming at Maverick and Orleans streets in East Boston: Read more.
By adamg - 9/8/23 - 8:59 am
NBC Boston shows us a good solid storrowing on Soldiers Field Road at the Western Avenue bridge this morning: 18 wheeler? Check. Trailer completely destroyed? Check. Driver about to be in a spot of trouble back at the warehouse? Oh, you know it. Only thing separating it from perfection: No cargo spewed all over the road.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 8:28 pm
Remains of the vehicle. Photo by TPD.
Transit Police report that a woman in an MBTA Ride had to be hospitalized after a harrowing ride from Woburn to downtown Boston behind a guy who had jumped into the vehicle and sped off, around 3:30 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 9/3/23 - 2:20 pm
Cornelia Vrel shows us the flaming car on Cambridge Street in Allston, on the bridge over the Massachusetts Turnpike ramps, around 2:15 p.m., moments before the first Boston firetruck arrived.
By adamg - 8/30/23 - 10:42 am
The Globe yesterday ran this headline: Self-driving cars are booming in San Francisco. Is it really a loss for Boston?
Betteridge's Law holds: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word No." Read more.
By adamg - 8/30/23 - 10:11 am
Smoke-belching manhole. Photo by Matty Wags.
Cambridge Police report a manhole exploded on Brattle Street in Harvard Square around 8:34 a.m. No injuries, but "Harvard Square is closed to vehicle traffic, and pedestrian traffic is restricted" and, really, police would prefer if you avoided the square altogether, even if you are parents moving your kid into a Harvard dorm. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/23 - 9:44 am
Photo of new signs going up by DCR.
DCR announced yesterday it's replacing the dark CARS ONLY signs at ramps to Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Road and Memorial Drive with glaring yellow in-your-face CARS ONLY signs. Read more.
By adamg - 8/29/23 - 8:49 am
Officials report a 57-year-old man on a bicycle died after he was hit by a UPS truck whose driver was coming the other way and making a left turn from Watertown Street onto Bridge Street in Nonantum around 5:20 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 8/28/23 - 8:56 pm
Mapfre Insurance is notifying customers that somebody was able to get into its "online quoting platform" for Massachusetts residents last month and retrieve information about Massachusetts residents and their cars. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/23 - 10:07 am
A roving UHub photographer captured the aftermath of a cab crashing into the front porch of a house on Walworth Street at Belgrade Avenue this morning.
By adamg - 8/24/23 - 2:19 pm
DCR is out with an online ad spot that urges newcomers to Boston to keep their rental trucks off the river roads - set to just the sort of plaintive music you'd expect on a late-night ASPCA ad:
For just zero dollars a day you can not hit a bridge or overpass on Storrow Drive and and Soldiers Field Road in Boston and Memorial Drive in Cambridge. ... The bridges, and the trucks, will thank you.
By adamg - 8/23/23 - 11:47 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports on one of the potential effects of the proposal to add bus and bike lanes in the center of the road, says a September meeting has been scheduled to try to figure out a solution.
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