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By adamg - 12/20/24 - 11:17 pm
Gallivan Boulevard, unplowed

Gallivan Boulevard is under there, right?

Bostonians filled the 311 lines with plenty of road snow complaints today, such as this complaint at 7:16 p.m. about Gallivan Boulevard (which, granted, is a state road, not a city responsibility): Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/24 - 3:06 pm
Toyota on the tracks at Boston College

Photo by Transit PD.

For the third time in two weeks, somebody in a Toyota wound up ensnared on Green Line tracks, this time at the end of the B Line at Boston College. Read more.

By adamg - 12/19/24 - 2:21 pm
Redone River Street over the train tracks

Armand Walker shows us the fresh asphalt at the River Street bridge in Hyde Park's Cleary Square today, reports workers there are optimistic the bridge could be re-opened to traffic next week, which would end the long running nightmare for people trying to get somewhere in or near Cleary Square. Read more.

By adamg - 12/18/24 - 4:17 pm
Firefighters clean up debris as car awaits transport away from the scene

Firefighters clean up debris as car awaits transport away from the scene.

A roving UHub photographer snapped the aftermath of an apparent car-B-Q at the southern end of the Gilmore Bridge this afternoon, reports traffic was back up all the way to North Station. Read more.

By adamg - 12/13/24 - 3:41 pm
Car disabled on Green Line tracks just inbound from Brightam Circle

Photo by Transit PD.

Transit Police report arresting the 29-year-old driver of a Toyota they say turned onto the inbound Green Line tracks at Brigham Circle around 3 a.m. and then didn't get very far and remained on scene so that officers could determine enough signs of intoxication to warrant an OUI arrest.

This was a week after another Toyota driver allegedly did the same basic thing on the Green Line at Coolidge Corner.

By adamg - 12/6/24 - 5:18 pm

An eight-year-old suffered a leg injury in an incident on Pershing Road at the Curley School involving a BPS school bus ending up hitting a gate at the lower school around 3 p.m.

Jamaica Plain News reports the injuries were not considered life threatening - and that Curley parents have long complained about how buses park on the sidewalk to await students.

By adamg - 12/6/24 - 1:11 pm
Car on Green Line tracks in Coolidge Corner

Photo by Transit PD.

Transit Police report arresting a 27-year-old woman they say drove her Camry inbound on the Green Line tracks at Coolidge Corner around 2:30 a.m., then tried to book it down the tracks at "a high rate of speed," only she didn't get very far before the car went off the rails and officers were able to book her on a charge of OUI.

By adamg - 12/5/24 - 10:18 pm

A man was stabbed in the chest and leg on Cambridge Street near Brighton Avenue and North Beacon Street around 6 p.m. The alleged stabber drove away in a reddish-orange SUV. Read more.

By adamg - 11/26/24 - 10:16 am

The Dorchester Reporter reports the latest proposal to upgrade the easily flooded road, which would include a new street and intersection just north of the building where the Globe used to be to connect new residential complexes there to the Dorchester waterfront, but not any work on the cranky drawbridge - or other plans for flood-control barriers along Dorchester Bay.

By adamg - 11/24/24 - 2:18 pm

Boston Police report arresting a Taunton man after finding a gun loaded with 17 rounds in his car before they had it towed away from a crash at Poplar and Dale streets in Roslindale early Friday morning. Read more.

By adamg - 11/21/24 - 6:05 pm

The Crimson reports Memorial Drive near the BU Bridge turned into a demolition derby around 4:15 p.m., with at least one vehicle flipped on its roof. Police shut both sides of the road.

By adamg - 11/17/24 - 12:23 am

Two cars crashed at Washington Street and Archdale Road in Roslindale around 7:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 4:10 pm
Smoke from car fire on I-93

A hybrid burst into flames on I-93 outbound, just south of Freeport Street, around 2:10 p.m. A roving UHub photographer at Lambert's off Morrissey Boulevard captured the smoke plume. No reports of injuries.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 2:28 pm

NBC Boston has the pics of the aftermath of a truck driver heading inbound on Storrow Drive having his entire roof peeled back like a long stretch of tin foil as he tried but failed to squeeze under the Fairfield Street footbridge around 5:15 a.m.

By adamg - 11/13/24 - 1:53 pm
Remains of the bike under the wheels of a pickup

A woman in her 20s was taken to a local hospital after she was struck by a driver of a Ford F-250 at Western Avenue and Academic Way around 11:30 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 3:16 pm
Electric-powered garbage truck

Cambridge today rolled out the first of four battery-operated trash trucks it's buying to reduce carbon emissions from city vehicles. Read more.

By adamg - 11/12/24 - 12:38 pm
Overturned truck storrowed at Kenmore ramp

Roving UHub photographer George Lewis captured the scene at the Bowker Overpass today, not long after a truck driver yelled, we imagine, "STORROWED!" on learning why trucks are banned from Storrow Drive in general, but especially the Kenmore loop ramps, because trucks hit them at just the right angle to flip them on their side.

You know it's a good storrowing when the fire department shows up, too: Read more.

By emac - 11/9/24 - 5:44 pm

Have plans on Sunday morning that involve going north or south through JP, east or west across JP? That’s great! The Arborway, Jamaicaway and part of the Riverway are closed for the B.A.A. Half Marathon from roughly 7:30 AM to 10:30 AM, with much of Franklin Park’s Circuit Drive shut too. Goofus and Gallant have been here before.

By adamg - 11/4/24 - 7:30 pm
Overturned car at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road

Photo by a roving UHub photographer

The drivers of an SUV and a car collided shortly before 5:45 p.m. at Washington Street and Wellesmere Road in Roslindale, flipping the SUV and sending the car into a tree. Read more.

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