Matt Conti reports Boston Police will be asking motorcyclists to voluntarily reduce the noise their bikes make as a good-neighbor gesture. The City Council passed an ordinance that would have forced quieter mufflers, but it's currently held up in court.
Kerry responds that people who can't stand the sound of revving bikes should move to Newton.
Around 7 a.m. at Melnea Cass Boulevard and Mass. Ave., Boston Police tweet. No word on his condition.
With 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. ...
Mick T. was walking toward Kenmore from the Back Bay yesterday when he turned onto Charlesgate West and came upon a blazing coupe:
The car starting rolling slowly and moved about 5 feet then stopped,
then rolled slowly a few more feet, then stop and then inch forward again until it was rolling along into the intersection.
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A woman driving down the turnpike this morning ended up at St. Elizabeth's when a piece of an overpass came crashing down on her car, Channel 4 reports.
Wicked Local Brookline reports a woman hit by a car on Sept. 10 at Longwood Avenue has died.
The Outraged Liberal reports he made the mistake of trying to take a bus from Kenmore Square to Harvard Avenue and now wonders:
... [W]hat brilliant person is behind the rebuilding of the BU Bridge-Commonwealth Avenue nightmare? And do they have a clue how to time traffic lights? ...
Nothing like a water-main break in Framingham to ruin a perfectly good commute. WBZ's Traffic on the 3s says cars were stacked up past Southborough eastbound this morning thanks to the water-main problems at Prospect Street in Framingham.
If you hurry down to your nearest RMV office:
As Paul Keleher discovered.
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I probably missed an earlier story or something, but this Herald piece kinda rates a fail because it says the feds are investigating possible safety issues at new RMV offices at the Charlton and Natick rest stops without ever saying what those safety issues are. Anybody know?
A Boston Fire Department SUV responding to what turned out to be a false alarm collided with a car driven by a man with a young child in the back seat at Amory and Atherton streets around 4 p.m. Fire officials say their vehicle had its emergency lights and siren on.
A Boston fire chief, another firefighter, the man and the child were all transported to local hospitals with what were described as minor injuries. The Boston Police Department will investigate the cause of the crash. between a BFD SUV responding to a fire and a car.
Local 718 tweets that two people just jumped off the Tobin; they were fished out of the water.
IBM has been studying stresses on American motorists, and has released a report claiming stress among Boston drivers is up dramatically this year - enough to push us from the second least stressed out major driving city in 2008 to the fourth most stressed group of drivers in the country (in your face, New York, we're more stressed out than you). Only LA, Washington and Miami drivers experience more agita on the daily commute, based on a survey of 4,440 drivers in ten major US cities, IBM says.
Some 47% of Boston drivers reported being stressed out on their commutes, up 10 percentage points from last year. According to IBM, Boston drivers rated the following as the worst roads for commuting: I-93, Routes 95, 128 and 495, "downtown."
And why is IBM studying drivers that aren't installed on PCs (ba-dum-DUM)? It sells "smart commuting" systems governments can use to try to get traffic to flow better.
Service all messed up on the C line due to the inability of a trolley and a car to occupy the same space at the same time at St. Paul Street, the T reports.
Wicked Local Somerville reports on the Cambridge incident; apparently, the woman is new to the area and mistook a local salutation for a punch-worthy insult.
Right in the story about the crashed plane on 495:
I just want to say that while I'm very grateful that the pilot and passenger are all right, I'm tired of all these pilots acting as though they don't have to obey the rules of the road! Swerving between traffic, ignoring red lights, landing on highways -- it's going to cause a tragedy one of these days!
In conclusion, I hope that everyone will support the creation of more airplane lanes on our streets.
WBZ's Traffic on the Threes just reported that Storrow Drive westbound is now backed up all the way to 93. The reporter said it's probably because of all the students moving in and, oh, yeah, the work crews in the righthand lane between Dartmouth and Mass. Ave.
Still no word of a sardine-canning, though.
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