Boston.com reports police say a man who was standing on the sidewalk in front of the Emporium gas station and car wash on Washington Street in Roslindale "inexplicably" ran into the street around 5:30 p.m. on Monday and was hit by a 30 bus.

Brookline.News reports Brookline will soon raise the price for all its parking meters to $2 an hour - bringing them in line with what parkers have to pay across the line in the Hub. The extra money will go, in part, to fix broken meters, which could mean even more revenue.

One member of the Select Board said the increase will be fairly invisible since people nowadays mostly use an app to pay, which is far more effortless than rummaging around the center console for some spare quarters.

A Stoughton Line bridge minding its own business at Bolivar Street in Canton Monday morning was rudely awakened by a tractor-trailer driver who perhaps figured the "low clearance" markings didn't apply in his case, only, as ever, it did. Transit Police report that, unlike the trailer, the bridge suffered no damage.

On her usual walk around Millennium Park this morning, Mary Ellen couldn't help but notice the evidence that somebody had driven up onto the soccer fields at the top of the park and done some donuts:

"I don’t know how bad the field was since hopefully it was frozen," she says, then adds there was also evidence of some karmic retribution: "They did slide right into the fence."

On the Channel explores the pothole that just keeps getting bigger on Thomson Place, an increasingly busy Fort Point Street because Boston Public Works won't fix it, not because the department is shirking its duties but because of the street's oddball status as a private way. With a detailed history of why the street remains a private way, going back to the turn of the 20th century.

An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about the parking situation at Joseph Agri and Rev. Burke streets in South Boston: Read more.

And you know what that means: No space saving, you guys.

Transit Police report the B Line was knocked out of commission for about 45 minutes around 9 p.m. on Wednesday after a driver somehow wound up facing towards Newton on the inbound tracks at Commonwealth Avenue and St. Thomas More Road. The driver of the diminutive sedan told police "he took a wrong turn and ended up stuck on the tracks." No injuries, at least.

Boston Police report they are hunting a driver they say hit a pedestrian at Alford and Dexter streets then drove off as the man died, shortly after 3 a.m. Read more.