I-93

Blowout in the Big Dig

adamg — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:59:53 -0400

Yoav now knows first hand what happens when you get a flat in the O'Neill Tunnel:

... I'm just cruising along (below the speed limit, thank you very much), when all of I sudden I hear a bang and feel a jerk on the back right side of the car. Sure enough, the tire pressure warning indicator lights up.

Unfortunately I had to go a little ways until I found a reasonable spot to pull over, because the right-hand lanes were full of cones and construction equipment.

In fact, I bet it was a stray piece of equipment or gear that caused my tire explosion. ...

I-93 turns into Southeast Distressway as camper explodes

adamg — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:02:28 -0400

I-93 shut at Southampton Street for 15 minutes as firefighters rushed to put out the fire in the ammo-filled camper on the northbound side.

Meanwhile, further north, part of the Leverett Connector is cracked. No cause for alarm, turnpike authority says, banning trucks weighing more than 40 tons just to be safe.

East/west commuters to continue to bear brunt of north/south road

adamg — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:18:33 -0400

State honcho vows: No tolls on I-93. Which means that tolls on the turnpike will continue to not go away to help pay for the Big Dig.

Commute-a-holic, who lives west of Boston, is not happy:

... I don't understand why North Shore and South Shore drivers get a free ride into Boston, where as everyone who lives West of Boston need to continue to pay to get into the city. It is so unfair. ...

Massholes don't let being behind the wheel of a mini-van stop them from being Massholes

adamg — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:04:20 -0400

Jeff Cutler reports on an encounter of the mini-van Masshole kind in a Big Dig tunnel.

Ban robot porn

adamg — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:40:22 -0400

Miss Kelly says she doesn't object to porn, she just doesn't want big-boobed robots pushing sex and vodka on I-93 billboards:

Keep it in your own home, not on billboards on interstate highways. Ewwww.

Rail vs. road safety

adamg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:02:48 -0400

This morning's gravel-truck smasharoonie on I-93 gets Sean Roche to thinking:

When the trolleys crashed on the D-Line, there was much gnashing of teeth and wringing of hands about the MBTA's track record (pun intended). The Herald had a whole timeline of T incidents.

But, a truck crashes on the highway and there is rarely a recap of all the incidents on the highway and the accumulated lost time to travelers stuck, like those this morning, for hours. The media doesn't treat accidents on the highway as part of a connected story of problems because there is no connection among the motor vehicle operators involved in the crashes ...

Southeast Distressway

adamg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:49:40 -0400

A multi-vehicle accident on the Expressway south of Neponset around 7:40 this morning left several people injured, an 18-wheeler turned over, gravel all over the place and the entire southbound side and the northbound HOV lane shut.

Her broken club foot

adamg — Sat, 31 May 2008 11:06:07 -0400

Sarah reports a misstep on the stairs at Club Cafe in the South End sent her straight to the Quincy Hospital ER (well as straight as one can get what with detours all over I-93 and sidestreets) with what turned out to be two broken bones in her foot:

Doctor: I am giving you a prescription of Vicodin

Jenny (friend who drove her): WOOOO!

Doctor: Uhh that's not generally the response we like to hear. ...

Tolls on 93?

adamg — Tue, 20 May 2008 08:22:11 -0400

* Yes * No * Don't know * Take the T or live westa Worcester

It would make a nice video game

adamg — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:48:32 -0400

Specialkvi made this Big Dig video mashup:

And let's not forget the old Central Artery.