Last Thursday, David Innis tweeted to MassDOT that something was amiss on this sign on I-93 south at the Somerville/Medford line - and not just that no times were showing up - because the Zakim and Mass. Ave. are nowhere near each other. By this morning, as you can see from the lower photo, the state had fixed the distance. Now if they can only get the time thing working (MassDOT says they're working on that).
For the second day in a row, State Police report a highway worker hit by a drunk, this time fatally on I-93 in Medford. Read more.
State Police released photos of the patrol car a trooper was in on I-93 south early Saturday when, police say, another car plowed into it - along with a statement by State Police Col. Richard McKeon: Read more.
WHDH reports a crash around 2:45 a.m. on I-93 southbound near South Bay sent six people to the hospital, including a state trooper who was stopped by the side of the road dealing with another crash when a car slammed into his patrol car.
Amanda Keane captured today's fiery vehicle, around 5:10 p.m. on I-93 south in Medford.
Nate Morrow captured a self-immolating car on I-93 south, just past the tunnel, around 4:15 p.m.
Caroline Cook watched the car burn from the Whole Foods parking lot: Read more.
Adam Salsman photographed the car that burst into flames shortly befor 4 p.m. on I-93 south in Milton.
Hotel billowing in the clear blue sky. Photo by Nat Tarbox.
UPDATE: Traffic is now blocked all over for miles.
Firefighters are in the O'Neill Tunnel battling a fire in a garbage truck that is sending smoke up through the ventilation shaft the InterContinental Hotel is built around. The hotel itself is not on fire.
A concerned citizen, who took this photo in his or her rear-view mirror, expresses the hope somebody can get this guy off the ramp from I-93 to Sullivan Square before he gets flattened:
This guy is always asking for change on the exit ramp and he's going to get killed one day because someone's gonna fly down here. Please have him stopped.
The Globe reports on Caitlin Clavette, who died this morning when a 200-lb. manhole cover came flying into her car in the O'Neill Tunnel just before the Expressway.
Rachel Michaud was among the riders of a route 354 bus forced to get off in the carpool lane around 8:30 a.m.
Well, the bus started smoking and we are stranded in the carpool lane on 93S.
The T sent a relief bus to pick up the evacuees.
Tim shows us one of the cars in a two-car crash on Leverett connector northbound around 8:30 a.m.
Cara and Christopher report a car fire on I-93 northbound at the Charlestown/Somerville line that can be smelled from the Community College T stop and which now has traffic backed to the tunnel.
Nick Cosky was taking a long-exposure photo of the Zakim from North Point Park in Cambridge when a plane flew by last night.
Chris Martin photographed the scene on I-93 southbound in the Woburn/Wilmington area shortly before noon.
Jarvis passed by this ball of fire on the Expressway shortly after 3 p.m.
Jamie Walsh also saw the flames: Read more.
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