WCVB reports somebody driving outbound on the inbound side of the turnpike tonight slammed into somebody head on just before the Pru tunnel, then managed to disengage from that and keep going, hitting more vehicles.
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Massachusetts Turnpike
By adamg - 1/28/23 - 12:43 pm
Roman S was joined by a Blue Bike rider in getting on the Massachusetts Turnpike inbound from Allston around 12:15 p.m.
Might get interesting.
By adamg - 1/27/23 - 2:20 pm
McDonald's today sued Boston Market, for the second time, over rent it says the chicken chain owes for subleases at Massachusetts Turnpike rest areas in Framingham, Westborough and Ludlow. Read more.
By adamg - 1/23/23 - 11:17 am
The Globe reports Washington has rejected a state request to pay like $1.2 billion towards plans to rebuild and relocate the overhead stretch of the Massachusetts Turnpike in the area of where the Allston/Cambridge tolls used to be.
By adamg - 1/6/23 - 11:05 am
The state Attorney General's office yesterday sued three state troopers for hours the state says they put in for but didn't work, when they were members of the since dishonored and disbanded Troop E, which patrolled the turnpike and Boston Harbor tunnels. Read more.
By adamg - 12/29/22 - 12:16 pm
MassDOT reports a truck driver slammed into the inbound side of the Auburn Street overpass on the turnpike in Newton, which is now closed pending an inspection. The right lane is also shut.
By adamg - 11/11/22 - 1:28 pm
Possible BU expansion sites in green, including decks over the turnpike.
Boston University recently filed a 10-year, $1-billion "institutional master plan" that calls for a new research building, possibly up to 16 stories, and a new premium student dorm, along with an expansion of solar panels across the campus and a major rehab of the Warren Towers dorms on Commonwealth Avenue. Read more.
By adamg - 9/15/22 - 4:12 pm
Massachusetts yesterday sued a driver from upstate New York for the $1.85 million in damage it says he caused when the boom of the excavator he was hauling on a flatbed slammed into a turnpike overpass and then, 30 miles down the road, slammed into another overpass, after which the excavator fell off the flatbed and took out a stretch of guardrail. Read more.
By adamg - 9/14/22 - 10:58 am
Rendering by The Architectural Team. See it larger.
A Miami developer has proposed a new complex over the Massachusetts Turnpike and a rarely used Hynes Green Line exit that would include a 12-story life-sciences wing, a 10-story wing with 125 affordable apartments, two new ADA-compliant T-stop entrances and a public bicycle "hub" with bike racks and lockers. Read more.
By adamg - 6/28/22 - 9:57 pm
State Police report a Waltham man lost control of his Harley-Davidson inbound on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Allston, hit the median barrier and died around 10:30 p.m. on Monday.
Mark Ganong, 54, was pronounced dead at the scene, State Police say.
By adamg - 5/31/22 - 11:46 am
Lee Toma navigated through pollen so thick it seemed like wildfire haze, only yellowish/greenish, this morning on the turnpike in Framingham. A cold front that pushed everything down towards the ground could have been responsible.
By adamg - 5/4/22 - 9:14 pm
Lori Henault spotted this message on signs on the turnpike in both Newton and downtown today, on Star Wars Day. Yes, it's a thing; Han needs to only toss his trash in approved garbage compactors.
By adamg - 12/24/21 - 11:29 am
Part of a six-car crash on the Masspike near 128.
Welcome to Dot managed to escape this six-car smashup on the turnpike westbound near 128 this morning.
Then, barely a mile down the road, he crawled past another, smaller crash: Read more.
By adamg - 11/1/21 - 1:37 pm
State Police report an 18-year-old died on the Massachusetts Turnpike inbound early this morning after a crash in which he first veered to the left and hit the Jersey barriers along the high speed lane in his 2019 Civic, then bounced off the guard rails along the right side before coming to a halt against more Jersey barriers along the high-speed lane.
"Speed is believed to be a contributing factor" in the crash, in which Joseph Fournier, 18, of Burlington died around 1:40 a.m., State Police say.
By adamg - 9/29/21 - 8:43 pm
StreetsblogMass reports MassDOT announced today that it will be replacing the current elevated loop system where the Allston/Cambridge tolls used to be on the turnpike and the neighboring stretch of Soldiers Field Road with a $1.7-billion ground-level set of roads.
By adamg - 9/10/21 - 11:30 pm
Claire Sadar reports 9/11 truthers held banners over the turnpike at two locations in the Newton/Watertown area and bollixed traffic in Newton Corner during rush hour by deciding to hand out literature to motorists there about how jet fuel can't melt steel or something.
By adamg - 8/31/21 - 7:10 pm
The Boston Fire Department reports that around 3:45 p.m., firefighters responded to a report of a car fire on the turnpike in the Pru tunnel - which sent smoke into the first floor of Copley Place - and found the flaming car and two separate crashes, one involving six cars, the other two cars.
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