Columbus Avenue
Drive-in claims service
By adamg - 1/26/12 - 11:00 am
Kenny Jervis happened upon the after effects of a two-car collision at Columbus Avenue and W. Newton Street in the South End this morning.
News Man reports there were no injuries.
Groundbreaking today for new Liberty Mutual headquarters
By adamg - 10/18/10 - 2:50 pmThe BRA informs us of the official ceremony at the site of the $300-million complex at Berkeley Street and Columbus Avenue.
City councilors praise Liberty Mutual expansion but tear into CEO; some residents object to tax break
By adamg - 3/12/10 - 2:42 pm
Ramshackle Salvation Army building: To become sparkly new corporate headquarters?
Boston city councilors today generally backed a proposed city/state deal to grant Liberty Mutual 20 years' of tax breaks to build a new headquarters in the Back Bay, but said the insurer's CEO really should take his foot out of his mouth and stop comparing Boston to Venezuela (assuming the Herald quoted him accurately, which councilors Feeney and Linehan doubted). Residents, however, objected to giving a very profitable company money for building on a "blighted" property. The company itself said it has no plans to move out of Boston no matter what happens - but might not expand without the tax break.
The natives grow restless
By adamg - 2/10/10 - 12:31 pm
Jed braved the elements to take this exclusive photo of, er, um, a non-snow-covered Columbus Avenue in the South End around noon.
UPDATE: Rapidly deteriorating conditions on the waterfront. And look at these near-whiteout conditions in Dorchester, captured at no small risk by Matt Vaitiskis:
No students were harmed in the flipping of that bus
By adamg - 12/1/09 - 8:45 amBoston Police tweet there weren't any students on board a school bus that flipped around 7:30 a.m. at Columbus Avenue and New Heath Street.
Columbus Avenue bike lane: Easy come, easy go
By adamg - 11/12/09 - 10:09 pm
Matthew Anderson snapped this shot of how quickly the brand-new Columbus Avenue bike lanes (installed just this past August) can disappear, thanks to some BWSC work.
More proof criminals can be awfully stupid - allegedly, of course
By adamg - 11/6/09 - 3:17 pmBoston Police report three men wound up in the back seat of cruisers on gun-related charges after they broke simple traffic laws.
Oh, to be a bicyclist in New York
By adamg - 9/16/09 - 7:05 amWith its wide avenues and actual, dedicated bike lanes. Mike Ball returns from a trip there and is amazed at what you can do with real streets - but also what a little enforcement might do on our non-cow paths:
... I think of the new, narrow bike lanes painted for a short distance on Columbus Avenue here. Eleven days ago, I took it both ways. In that short distance, I counted 22 motor vehicles blocking the lane, 9 one way and 13 back. Of course, there was no enforcement. Bikes had to take the single lane in either direction from cars and trucks to move instead. ...
Sean Roche, meanwhile, is loving the new bike lanes along Beacon Street from Cleveland Circle to the Newton line, but no liking how the just disappear at the line.
A bike lane of her very own
By adamg - 8/26/09 - 8:45 amWhen Charlotte woke up this morning, she found a brand new bike lane down Columbus Avenue:
... Thank you Boston! It's beautiful. It's just what I always wanted!!!
