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Gas leak in Porter Square

By adamg - Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:01pm.

From the T:

Route 83 is being diverted due to gas leak in Porter Square. buses will be unable to service stops at Porter Sq or Sommerville Ave & Elm Sts.

Anybody know anything more about this?

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Gas leak or gas work?

By anon (not verified) | Thu, 06/26/2008 - 12:51pm

I live in that neighborhood. They've been gearing up to do utility & reconstruction work in that section of Somerville Avenue for a couple days now. They were definitely doing gas line work this morning - half of the road dug up, firefighters standing around looking bored just in case, NStar trucks, the whole nine yards.

I suspect that the "gas leak" was more like gas line work and lane changes/shifts that make it impossible for a bus to get through.

yup, scheduled work

By Chris (not verified) | Thu, 06/26/2008 - 4:32pm

Just scheduled for last spring.

Somerville Ave was being torn up this morning

By jmr76 (not verified) | Thu, 06/26/2008 - 2:13pm

On my walk to the subway this morning, the construction folks had one entire lane of Somerville Ave all torn up. That may explain why the 83 bus won't make any stops on that stretch (between Mass Ave and Elm Street).

I'm not ready to believe any alert on the MBTA website that can't even spell Somerville correctly. I'm willing to bet they mean gas company construction - not a leak.

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