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.

A group of West Roxbury residents who say they support the city's plans to slow traffic on Centre Street will hold a "walk and roll" from the post office down to Holy Name Rotary at 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

A vexed citizen files a 311 complaint about the situation in the Public Garden - and a possible solution: Read more.

Sifu Tweety videoed a ride on the new community path along the Green Line Extension in Somerville today and set it to "Roadrunner." Read more.

City officials this week unveiled a "safety surge" program aimed at making neighborhood streets, intersections and certain key thoroughfares safer for pedestrians, bicyclists - and motorists. Read more.

A concerned citizen files a 311 request asking the city to do something about the rustier parts of the Grand Junction Bridge, which carries commuter-rail and Amtrak trains under the BU Bridge, before they fall on people walking or jogging along the Charles River.

The Boston Transportation Department (BTD) is looking at adding new dedicated bike lanes and crosswalks and traffic-slowing measures to the maelstrom at Cleveland Circle, where pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and trolleys all share an increasingly congested and complex intersection. Read more.

Boston has changed its requirements for the "tactile" nubbly pads that let people with sight issues know they're at a the end of a sidewalk to require pads made of cast iron, which it hopes will last longer than the easily shredded plastic ones it now uses, city Streets Chief Jascha Franklin-Hodge said this week. Read more.

Egidio D'Antuony, 60, a fleet manager for the Boston Parks Department, died yesterday when a driver plowed into him, his house, and another man at 3968 Washington St. in Roslindale yesterday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The second victim, a 62-year-old man, was transported to a local hospital, the DA's office reports.