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By adamg - 5/9/24 - 12:03 pm
Newly two-way Lincoln Street

Son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't re-sign that two-way Lincoln.

A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about Lincoln Street in Brighton, which the city recently changed from a one-way street to a two-way street between Portsmouth Street and Market Street/Birmingham Parkway. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 9:35 am
School bus going the wrong way down Liverpool Street

A concerned citizen filed a 311 complaint about a school-bus driver headed the wrong way down the one-way section of Liverpool Street in East Boston this morning: Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 3:41 pm

State Police report a Salem woman this morning led police from the North Shore into Boston on a wild chase full of crashed cars and gates - at the Coast Guard base in the North End and at Fenway Park, both of which police say she rammed into with her 2024 Honda Accord. Read more.

By adamg - 5/6/24 - 11:52 am

State Police report a Cambridge man heading north in the O'Neill Tunnel lost control of his Jeep Compass, crashed into a wall and died after the Jeep flipped onto the passenger side, shortly after midnight on Saturday.

State Police identify the driver as Robert Smith, 59, and say he was not wearing his seat belt. The crash remains under investigation, State Police say.

By adamg - 5/4/24 - 11:05 am
Passat with a Hawaii license plate in the South End

Neal Gaffey spotted this car with a Hawaii plate on Dedham Street in the South End the other day.

By adamg - 5/1/24 - 9:10 pm
Parrott Street in Hyde Park

Some of the craters Councilor Pepén described on the privately owned Parrott Street in Hyde Park.

After dealing with the issue of Gaza today, Boston city councilors agreed to tackle a more traditional council issue: Potholes, more specifically, the rough shape of the surprising number of private ways the city still has. Read more.

By adamg - 4/24/24 - 9:12 pm

State Police report somebody in a vehicle on the northbound side of I-93 in Braintree became so enraged enough by something somebody else did around 2:50 p.m. to get out a gun and fire it. Read more.

By adamg - 4/23/24 - 2:54 pm

Streetsblog Massachusetts reports on the cruiser crash Saturday afternoon on the sidewalk in front of the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street, taking out a traffic light and damaging a hydrant, but not hitting anybody. The officer was on his way down Tremont to the Burger King, where other officers managed to arrest a man while he was still trying to hold the place up at gunpoint.

By adamg - 4/22/24 - 9:34 am

WFXT reports Boston and State Police responded to the residential area around Dartmouth Street early Sunday morning on reports of upwards of 15 drivers engaged in "drag racing and doing burnouts," many laying rubber the wrong way in the normally quiet area. Read more.

By adamg - 4/20/24 - 12:26 pm

Adam J.B. Lane forwards a photo from the Facebook Arlington List of a box truck about to be towed away from the bridge carrying the Minuteman bike trail over Grove Street in Arlington yesterday:

Grove Street in Arlington may not make the news quite as often as a certain other roadway in Boston, but it's no slouch itself when comes to ventilating unwary box trucks.

By adamg - 4/18/24 - 4:02 pm
Box truck demolished in a Soldiers Field Road storrowing

Roving UHub photographer Henry Luthin snapped the aftermath of a most impressive storrowing this afternoon, inbound on Soldiers Field Road by the Harvard B-School. Read more.

By adamg - 4/18/24 - 3:46 pm
Pedestrian Only sign on Franklin Street downtown - with cars

Boston Pedestrian observed the scene on Franklin Street just before Washington Street in Downtown Crossing this afternoon: Read more.

By adamg - 4/15/24 - 3:42 pm
Blue VW Bug against a blue sky

Matt Frank spotted this sky-blue VW Bug against the blue sky at Revere Beach this afternoon.

By adamg - 4/14/24 - 10:04 am
Bus stuck under a bridge on Storrow Drive

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round, until the bus driver gets on Storrow Drive and skee-ronches right into the infamous Bridge of Double Storrows by Mass Eye and Ear. Tom Leonard couldn't help but photograph the scene this morning, given that the stuck bus was backing up traffic like nobody's business. Read more.

By adamg - 4/12/24 - 10:19 pm
Car on its roof on Alston Street in Somerville

Jess Riley shows us the car flipped on its roof on Alston Street in Somerville, near McGrath Highway. Read more.

By adamg - 4/10/24 - 9:41 pm

WBZ reports on an incident at Hanover and Commercial streets Tuesday night where a worker at Rocco's ran outside and chased a hit-and-run driver who got out and then ran after slamming into another car.

By adamg - 4/7/24 - 1:20 pm
Traffic on I-93 in New Hampshire

Rob Adams reports northbound traffic on I-93 in New Hampshire earlier today was not too bad until he hit Concord and then, blammo.

By adamg - 4/5/24 - 5:18 pm

The driver of an 18-wheeler got wedged but good in the Sumner Tunnel around 1 p.m. today, causing all sorts of delays and bringing all the news copters to video the blockage they couldn't see, because it was in a tunnel. It's the second time in a week or so that that's happened.

By adamg - 4/4/24 - 10:10 am

A woman suffered possibly life-threatening injuries when hit by a large box truck at Essex Street and Atlantic Avenue around 6:30 a.m. The truck driver remained at the scene.

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