Universal Hub - I-93

Peace

adamg — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:42:09 +0000

Martin Richard's words.

Liz Carney led a Dot Art Paint for Peace Day at Savin Hill Beach today that ended with the hanging of this banner across I-93. Photo by Peter McNamara.

Police say driver awakens from his slumber - in the high-speed lane of 93 north

adamg — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 22:07:40 +0000

State Police report that when a trooper rolled up to a car stopped in the high-speed lane near exit 13 around 4:50 this morning, he found an apparently unconscious man behind the wheel. Who then woke up and took off:

Horrible hitcher

adamg — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 11:41:53 +0000

Nicole Oliverio at WHDH tweets the driver of one of the station's news vans had just gotten on I-93 south when she realized somebody was on the roof. Seems somebody with places to go but no way to get there had climbed on somewhere between the station's Government Center offices and the I-93 ramp.

The guy surprisingly wasn't hurt. Said he needed a ride, but didn't have $$

Roomier roaming along 128 south of the city this week

adamg — Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:43:14 +0000

MassDOT reports it's opening the remaining fourth-lane sections of 128, er, 93/95/1/Hut!, between Randolph and Westwood this week. Schedule of segment openings. Important note:

With the opening of the new fourth travel lane, the authorized use of the breakdown lane for travel during weekday peak commuting periods will be discontinued to enhance driver safety and provide emergency vehicle access.

In other words, from now on, the breakdown lane is only for breaking down in.

Man gets shot in car speeding along 93

adamg — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:56:06 +0000

The Herald reports on some car-to-car shooting around 1 a.m. on the Randolph/Braintree section of I-93.

Forget MacArthur Park: According to Apple, the Deck melted in the dark

adamg — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:59:53 +0000

I-93 north of the Zakim, at least, according to the new iPhone Maps app.

DA: Wrong-way driver dies in I-93 crash; second driver injured

adamg — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 14:46:24 +0000

A man who drove his pickup the wrong way on the northbound side of I-93 just before the O'Neill Tunnel died earlier this morning when he crashed into an SUV coming the right way and he was thrown from his vehicle, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Idefonso Barros, 58, of Roxbury, was taken to Tufts Medical Center, where he died, the DA's office reports.

The DA's office says State Police have determined the man, in a 1999 Dodge Dakota, somehow got onto the northbound side of the highway the wrong way. He struck a 2006 Nissan Pathfinder, whose driver had to be extricated by firefighters. She is expected to survive.

The northbound side of the road was shut while firefighters extricated the second victim and police tried to determine the cause.

Woman jumps to her death from the lower deck

adamg — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 22:08:19 +0000

A woman fell to her death around 2:30 p.m. from the lower deck of I-93 in Charlestown to the Boston Sand and Gravel property below. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports her car was found on the deck: "The woman's death does not appear suspicious and it is currently being investigated as a non-homicide."

Our decaying infrastructure that's really too young to be decaying: Big Dig light fixture hanging by a thread

adamg — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:33:55 +0000

UPDATE: State officials are blaming an "oversize truck" for taking out one of those lane-marker things, BostInno reports - so yes, it's always September in the O'Neill Tunnel.

Somewhere in the back of the mind is a vague memory of state officials promising to do something about all the Big Dig light fixtures held up by library paste or paper clips or something. Jason Porter managed to take a picture in the northbound tunnel this morning that suggests they missed at least one.