Katherine Bragg is among the drivers not going anywhere on I-93 north due to a truck turned sideways in the tunnel.
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Katherine Bragg is among the drivers not going anywhere on I-93 north due to a truck turned sideways in the tunnel.
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Is there ice in the tunnel?
By Ron Newman
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 12:45pm
If so, how did it get there? Leaks?
Water spray from passing vehicles
By roadman
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 12:58pm
Cold concrete pavement. Truck perhaps going a bit too fast for the curve.
You do the math.
That's probably what happened.
By mplo
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 7:57pm
Operating at too great a speed for existing conditions is how most accidents occur, anyway. That truck driver obviously. wasn't playing it too smart.
That's probably what happened.
By mplo
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 7:58pm
Operating at too great a speed for existing conditions is how most accidents occur, anyway. That truck driver obviously. wasn't playing it too smart.
Too bad the MassDOT guy
By roadman
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 12:49pm
dumped all his salt on the Zakim Bridge.
No problem
By aldos
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 1:06pm
He'll get that turned around any minute now...
[img]http://i.imgur.com/EAZCqF8.gif[/img]
">https://www.youtube.com
By roadman
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 1:19pm
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDxVJ471hyg[/youtube]
40 Acres Not Available
By anon
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 3:38pm
Gonna have to learn to read maps, read signs, slow down, and actually drive your rig.
Mr. Powers might be able to help
By anon
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 1:22pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGiQOCX9UbM
Just as long as this isn't the same Mr. Powers
By roadman
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 2:15pm
that supplied the glue for the tunnel ceiling bolts:
https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReport...
Ah yes
By anon
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 3:37pm
They guy who supplied the glue that they ordered from him. The ordering party screwed it up, not him. But, since he had not donated to her campaigns, Choakley went after him like a rabid lemur and scapegoated him.
Read the NTSB report
By roadman
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 7:22pm
The ordering party may have messed up, but so did the guy that supplied the glue - as he didn't clearly state the limitations of the two types of available glue in the product spec sheets.
However, the true blame for the collapse lies with the people who designed and approved the tunnel ceiling. Treating 800 pound concrete slabs like a suspended drop ceiling you'd install in a man cave is not exactly the best engineering decision, as the unfortunate events of July 10th, 2006 proved.
tunnel issues
By John-W
Wed, 02/08/2017 - 2:09pm
got stuck in that mess when coming from the Ted Williams Tunnel into the tunnel that connects to 93. They had the ramp/tunnel that feeds into 93 North closed off and traffic coming at us - coming the wrong way down that tunnel - to hang a tight right at the split to go back up onto 93 South. What a fun time!
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