A wary-eyed citizen reports from I Street in South Boston this afternoon:
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By adamg - 1/2/14 - 9:41 am
Boon Sheridan was amazed at this preemptive space saver in Everett this morning.
By adamg - 1/2/14 - 9:26 am
Glub, glub at Washington and Kneeland around 4 a.m. Avoid the area, the city says.
Earlier:
Bus-swallowing sinkhole.
By adamg - 12/30/13 - 10:00 am
A Sam Adams truck, about to make a delivery to Blanchard's around 9:30 a.m., kicked the bucket right in the middle of Centre Street, forcing police to block the road in both directions until the truck could be moved.
"Usually, I'm more than happy to see Sam Adams," Tiffani Faison, who took the photo, commented.
By adamg - 12/30/13 - 8:40 am
Remains of a pickup that slid under a truck in Chestnut Hill. Photo by State Police.
Rain turned to black ice overnight, causing cars to crash and overturn across the region and sending pedestrians and bicyclists plunging to the ground.
Rte. 9 eastbound by the Chestnut Hill Mall was shut after a pickup truck slid under the back of a tractor trailer around 7:20 a.m. State Police report the driver of the pickup suffered serious injuries but was conscious when extricated by firefighters.
By adamg - 12/29/13 - 4:38 pm
Interesting ad on Craigslist right now:
Looking for a South End Parking Permit for 2014. Work in the area with pay per day parking garage and looking to see if anybody who lives in the South End who doesn't have parking permit would like to get one and sell.
Willing to pay $200 cash for the 2014 year.
H/t Johnson.
By adamg - 12/26/13 - 4:10 pm
MassDOT has a site to explain the rehab work, which will be followed by 11 months of nighttime and off-hours work.
By adamg - 12/26/13 - 3:43 pm
Thomas Tinlin, head of the transportation department under Tom Menino, will become hief of operations and maintenance for the state Department of Transportation next month.
Tinlin is ending almost a decade as the Commissioner of the Boston Transportation Department. During that time Tinlin introduced technology to modernize operations, embraced a multi-modal approach to roadway design and led the implementation of transportation plans for countless planned and unplanned events in the City.
By adamg - 12/25/13 - 12:16 am
Around 8 p.m. at Columbus Avenue and Amory Street, Stanley Staco reports, adding the person went into cardiac arrest in the ambulance. The Globe reports she died at the hospital.
By adamg - 12/24/13 - 6:17 pm
DPW worker cleans up mess outside store. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a driver somehow managed to drive in reverse into the Artful Edge, 55 Harvard Ave., around 4 p.m. Arriving emergency crews found the Subaru embedded in the framing store. The driver was unhurt, but one pedestrian was cut by flying glass.
Police are investigating the incident; ISD also arrived to look at the structural state of the building.
By adamg - 12/24/13 - 11:11 am
Conrad Crawford posts a photo of a New Yorker who somehow managed to get his stupid car on the Northbank Bridge - that swoopy bridge between Cambridge and Charlestown that's supposed to be for pedestrians and bicyclists - last night.
He reports the boulder at the beginning of the bridge had been moved for some reason. He adds that for some reason, the guy refused to wait around for State Police to arrive.
Ed. note: Bet the guy blames his GPS.
By adamg - 12/23/13 - 2:03 pm
Joel Barciauskas is stuck trying to get onto the Southeast Distressway by South Bay.
By adamg - 12/20/13 - 4:38 pm
With the help of some online friends, Adam Mazo figured out a solution that didn't involve either nail guns or fists, but instead the season's best passive-aggressive note.
By adamg - 12/20/13 - 3:48 pm
Mike passed the flaming remains of an apparent rear-end collision around 3 p.m. just before the off ramp from Rte. 3 south to I-95 north.
By adamg - 12/19/13 - 6:13 pm
With little else to do as she sat there, Karen photographed the speed signboard on 93 north in Quincy early this evening.
The delays, it seems, were caused by all the hubbub over a police standoff with a wanted man inside a house on Furnace Brook Parkway in Quincy.
By adamg - 12/19/13 - 9:48 am
A weary citizen in East Boston sighs:
I'm not sure if this is asking too much, but on border st and white st in East Boston, I've already shoveled out 5 parking spaces, and everytime I come home at night people have moved put of theirs and into my shoveled out spots. I'm exhausted from having to shovel a new one every night. By that point, it's hard and icy. Is it possible that the snow can be removed during the day, because my neighbors aren't doing their part?
By adamg - 12/19/13 - 6:45 am
The state shut the eastbound Storrow tunnel this morning due to flooding.
By adamg - 12/18/13 - 1:30 pm
Wicked Local Brookline reports that, according to police, a visiting bicyclist from Jamaica Plain got upset at a motorist going around him on Washington Street, apparently because he was riding in the middle of the street to avoid just that sort of thing, so he caught up with her at a light and smashed her windshield with his bike lock. Police then arrested him.
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