City Councilor Ben Weber (Jamaica Plain, West Roxbury) reports that possibly as early as tomorrow, BTD crews will be out along the Boston stretch of Allandale Road to remove some of the 13 speed humps they installed earlier this month between the Faulkner Hospital ER entrance and the Allandale Farm entrance. Read more.
The Crimson reports on the Wednesday night crash on JFK Street. No injuries reported.
Brookline.News reports on the two-car crash on VFW Parkway near Bonad Road Saturday evening after which the off-duty BPD detective allegedly played the "do-you-know-who-I-am" card and screamed at a responding state trooper to "shut the fuck up" when the trooper tried to read him his Miranda rights.
A man drove into at house at 167 Woodrow Ave. in Dorchester around 2:15 a.m. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on an early morning crash that left a car embedded in the Ashmont Nursery School at Washington and Ashmont streets in Dorchester.
BTD workers begin to deal with pole carnage; photo by Vivian Gerard.
Sometime before 7:40 a.m., the driver of a Corolla slammed into a traffic-light pole on the southbound side of Blue Hill Avenue at Columbia Road in Dorchester, sending the pole slamming down across the road and creating an instant traffic jam. No serious injuries, at least.
Surveillance photo of suspect vehicle via BPD.
Police are looking for a dark SUV whose driver they say hit two pedestrians on Washington Street between Northampton and Lenox streets, then drove away, around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about a Cybertruck owner who keeps parking in a resident-only space without a resident parking permit - using the old ticket-on-the-windshield trick: Read more.
City Councilor Ed Flynn (South Boston, South End, Chinatown, Downtown) said yesterday the city should expand its side-street speed-hump program to the city's main thoroughfares - and lower the citywide speed limit - to reduce the number of pedestrians sent to the grave by impatient speeders. Read more.
DCR proposal shows Murray Circle turned more into Murray Square, with traffic lights.
Unlike the weather, DCR says this time it's really going to do something to make the Arborway safer for drivers, pedestrians and bicyclists, possibly in 2027, through a host of improvements that will include changing the giant circle of doom by the Arboretum known as Murray Circle and the smaller ellipsoid of confusion up by Jamaica Pond known as Kelley Circle into large intersections, with traffic lights and turn lanes and "highly visible" crosswalks and pedestrian-crossing signals. Read more.
Gov. Healey today announced a plan to spend an extra $8 billion over the next ten years on transportation projects, including a large increase in the MBTA's annual budget and nearly $1.4 billion for capital projects that would include new subway and commuter-rail cars, spending on "station accessibility and resilience, track improvements and power system resiliency" and bolstering ferry service. Read more.
McSweeney's chronicles our state's unique road signs, although as Oom_rl notes, they missed the one inviting truck drivers onto Storrow Drive.
Boston.com reports on a crash around 9:20 a.m. in Andrew Square that killed a pedestrian and, after the vehicle slammed into a building, sent the driver and a passenger to the hospital with critical injuries.
Photo by a roving UHub photographer.
A driver ran his or her car into the front steps of a triple decker at 4436 Washington St. at Wellsmere Road in Roslindale around 5:40 p.m. on Wednesday The car's air bags went off and ISD was requested to check the structural integrity of the building.
That's the same intersection where two drivers collided in November, sending one vehicle into a tree and flipping the other on its roof.
The City Council today agreed to look at eliminating current parking requirements for residential development across the city as a way of spurring new housing - although some councilors vowed to fight the proposal, warning it would destroy Boston's working class and drive low-income residents out of the city. Read more.
The driver of this bus atop Jersey barriers at Guest and Arthur streets in Brighton will no doubt have an interesting story to tell his dispatcher how he wound up like that, around 2:10 p.m. No reported injuries.
Bicycle, evidence markers and investigators at crash scene. Photo by Shamus Moynihan.
A bicyclist suffered critical injuries in a crash at Albany and East Berkeley streets in the South End shortly after 11:10 a.m. Read more.
Brian C. captured a stuck 18-wheeler on May 10.
The bridges and overpasses of the river roads continued their winning streak in 2024, once again teaching lessons to truck drivers from near and far what "CARS ONLY" means. The year also brought an unusual, underwater twist as construction work in the Sumner Tunnel meant we got to see some below-ground storrowing. Read more.
A disgusted motorist filed a 311 complaint yesterday evening about the way the River Street Bridge in Hyde Park was re-opened on Monday: Read more.
The first across the bridge.
Shortly before 7:40 p.m. MassDOT workers removed barrels on the Gordon Avenue side of the River Street Bridge in Cleary Square and let the first driver back on the bridge since it was shut in May, 2022 because it was falling apart. Read more.
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