Major traffic mess in Hyde Park as ancient bridge over train tracks is shut
Crack is behind firefighter on the right.
The city shut the River Street bridge over the Amtrak and commuter-rail lines for about 90 minutes late this afternoon because of excessive vibrations motorists felt as they drove outbound from Cleary Square.
The bridge was re-opened shortly before 6 p.m. after engineers determined the bridge was safe to drive over and would not come tumbling down on the train tracks underneath. Even after the bridge was re-opened, however, a couple of highway engineers from MassDOT stood guard over the trouble area, a patch roughly three feet wide in which the asphalt had given way and the planks underneath made a clanging sound as vehicles drove over it.
Traffic was backed up on both ends of River Street, Hyde Park Avenue in both directions and on Summer Street, which parallels Hyde Park Avenue. But traffic in Cleary Square itself never reached gridlock as Boston police officers kept the cars moving. Trains along the busy tracks were ordered to slow down as they passed under the bridge.
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Open to misinterpretation
So when you say there's crack behind the firefighter, what exactly are you saying? Is there a picture. I'm looking at this on a phone.
Ugh, sorry
Fixed, I clicked the button that enables photos on a post.
It's not all that noticeable in this photo because of the perspective or something - and because this was the best photo I could get with my camera (one of these days, I'll get a DSLR, which can actually take pictures in low light). Was way more noticeable standing right next to it with cars driving over - you could see things moving up and down.
Wait so...
the bridge is closed because the firefighter got caught with crack?
And I thought it was just a transposition..
of "Firefighter's crack is right on his behind."
Born Bad...
That River Street Bridge isn't good no matter what they say- half the wood where the pedestrians have to walk is rotted and w/ no lights on it VERY scary to walk across at night when coming off the commuter-rail. I think a redo is in order.
Trains Ordered To Slow Down?
I would think they'd be ordered to speed up and get the hell out from under it as quickly as possible.
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