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Rte. 9

By adamg - 8/14/13 - 9:44 am

Downed Rte. 9 sign

We can't be the only people who used to think Rte. 9 ended (or began) somewhere in the area of the Riverway overpass just past Brookline Village. Now, thanks to the industrious beavers at MassDOT, we know it continues down Huntington Avenue to at least Mission Hill (remember last year when a contractor blocked the sidewalk on Tremont Street by putting up Rte. 9 signs?). And now, thanks to a concerned citizen, we know Rte. 9 extends even further into Boston, onto at least Stuart Street (and from there, hmm, maybe it goes through one of the tunnels into East Boston and then all the way up to Canada!):

One of the new state road signs has been knocked down by a car and is near Eastern Bank at Dartmouth and Stuart (on elevated sidewalk). By the way, why are all these signs being installed?

By adamg - 6/14/13 - 8:59 am

Brown sign

Bravo, Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, for defying national "standards" on what makes a good highway exit sign.

By adamg - 3/27/12 - 7:26 am

Wellesley Police report a Watertown man was finally stopped in Brookline after a chase that started on Rte. 9 in Natick early this morning.

By adamg - 1/5/12 - 3:41 pm

The Boston Business Journal reports on the latest refugees from the increasingly empty Rte. 9 mall.

By adamg - 12/5/11 - 4:11 pm

Wicked Local Newton reports Wegman's plans to open a store in the new mall being built on Rte. 9 where Omni Foods used to be.

By adamg - 12/3/10 - 6:40 am

Sean Roche reports that the proposed mall for the old Omni Foods site on Rte. 9 will actually make pedestrian access along Rte. 9 worse and that that's just fine with the city lawyer, who got into a "heated exchange" with an alderman on the topic, basically arguing that nobody walks along Rte. 9 and never will - which Roche refutes with photos of some actual pedestrians walking along that stretch of Rte. 9.

By adamg - 11/25/10 - 10:22 am

At 9:30, Bari Walsh tweeted:

Traffic just stopped on 9 west in Newton as 10 or so wild turkeys crossed the road. I swear.

By adamg - 11/23/10 - 2:20 pm

Wicked Local Brookline reports a Brookline firefighter was arrested on charges he drove up to 90 mph while drunk on Rte. 9.

By adamg - 7/17/10 - 8:53 am

A plumber from Groton wants to expand his offerings by turning the old Tin Alley Grill (and even older. Ground Round) on Rte. 9 at California Avenue into a "gentlemen's club," the MetroWest Daily News reports.

By adamg - 7/9/10 - 8:49 pm

Yes, if it falls on Newton Alderman Charlie Shapiro's car, Wicked Local reports.

By adamg - 9/10/09 - 9:56 am

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.

By adamg - 6/1/09 - 3:02 pm

Turns out Brookline Police have a surveillance camera trained on part of Rte. 9 and it captured a cruiser chasing somebody down the wrong side of the road crashing into a Chinese restaurant near Cypress Street last month. Wicked Local Brookline's posted the video.

By adamg - 2/16/09 - 3:36 pm

Stephen Walsh posts some details and photos from a 5 a.m. blaze at 1160 Boylston St. in Brookline around 5 a.m.

By adamg - 2/6/09 - 1:54 pm

That's because the power went out at what the Globe initially described as "a large mall in Framingham."

Earlier:
The Globe defines the Longfellow Bridge for its Rocky Mountain readers.

By adamg - 2/2/09 - 11:50 pm

Wellesley Police report you can once again get off Rte. 9 at Rte 16. Woot!

Via the Swellesley Report, which is beside itself in amazement.

By adamg - 1/29/09 - 9:40 am

Wellesley Police have a spiffy new Web site (but where's the police log?). They've posted this video of some of the excitement in town during yesterday's storm:

Via The Swellesley Report.

By adamg - 1/23/09 - 7:43 pm

Video of a burning, collapsing cell tower in Wellesley off Rte. 9 eastbound today.

By adamg - 8/11/08 - 12:17 pm

Last month, our office moved from Southborough to Framingham. There are actually several reasons I'm a happy worker: For one thing, the new office is 10 or 15 minutes closer to home (yay for me, kinda sucks for co-workers living along 495). The building (that weird one at Old Connecticut Path and Speen Street that looks like the architects took a black-glass building up in a helicopter and then dropped it on top of a brick building) is much nicer. And I no longer have to worry about skidding into the reservoir along Rte. 9 down by the Edgewater apartments.

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