Centre Street at Allandale Street in front of the main entrance to Faulkner Hospital was shut and large parts of Jamaica Plain lost water after a Boston Water and Sewer Commision main burst around 5 p.m. Read more.
Mayor Wu announced today the city is renaming the North Washington Street bridge after Celtics great and civil-rights activist Bill Russell. Read more.
Residents of Redlands Road off Centre Street in West Roxbury are mostly reacting cautiously to a developer's plans to replace the closed Stonehedge nursing home with a 30-unit apartment building. Traffic and parking, of course, are their main concerns. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the owner of a Nissan Versa apparently permanently parked on Weld Hill Street in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
Boston Police and Boston EMS responded to River and Arlington streets in Hyde Park after a crash shortly before 7:20 p.m. between a scooter and an SUV. The scooter driver was transported to a Boston trauma center with life-threatening injuries. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports the MBTA is warning commuter-rail could come to a screeching halt "within weeks" if its parent agency, MassDOT, goes ahead with its plans to tear down the Grand Junction rail bridge under the BU Bridge as part of its plans to completely rebuild the turnpike where the Allston tolls used to be. Read more
A concerned resident filed a 311 complaint about the current parking situation on Beacon Hill: Read more.
The Boston Public Improvement Commission today approved renaming the road that bisects the Arnold Arboretum as Flora Way, to honor a Black woman enslaved by a nearby landowner in the 1700s, the Rename Bussey Street group of Roslindale and Jamaica Plain residents reports. Read more.
Cambridge Day reports work that includes widening the pedestrian/bicycle path and reducing the speed limit on Memorial Drive outbound from the BU Bridge starts Monday.
Streetsblog Mass reports the driver who hit and killed John Corcoran on a pedestrian/bicyclist path next to Memorial Drive has had his license suspended during an investigation but has yet to be charged with anything: Read more.
An annoyed resident files a 311 complaint about the roadwork at Centre and Allandale streets, which aside from being a key chokepoint during the commute, leads to the Faulkner's main entrance: Read more.
A Springfield man who orchestrated a ring of catalytic-converter thieves that operated across two states - including in Newton, Waltham and Needham - was sentenced this week to ten years in federal prison, the US Attorney's office reports, adding the arrests of ring members last year has meant a significant decrease in catalytic-converter thefts. Read more.
Boston firefighters, EMTs and paramedics responded to Genki Ya, 232 Tremont St. at Stuart Street after an SUV driver hit at least one pedestrian and then plowed into the front entrance shortly before 3:40 p.m. Read more.
Streetsblog Mass reports on the fatal crash near the BU Boathouse and BU Bridge, along a stretch of Memorial Drive that safety activists had urged DCR to do something about, but it didn't.
Boston police, firefighters and EMTs responded to 399 Congress St. at B Street after a driver crashed into a Seaport Boulevard building near there, bounced off and then took out a utility box, shortly after 8:30 p.m. on Sunday. First responders found the driver unconscious.
MassLive reports the driver died.
A peeved resident filed a 311 complaint this morning about this 1980s-era computer graphic illegally parked in a No Standing zone at Soldiers Field Road and Soldiers Field Place in Brighton.
Earlier:
Cybertruck? More like a Cyberbully.
Take a look at this beauty. It's so rare to see a truck just completely destroyed like that, sending debris everywhere and creating one hell of a massive backup - the driver must have gotten up quite the head of steam. Plus, the driver gets credit for returning to the sport's origins and traditions - plowing a rental truck into the bridge as God intended.
Update, Tuesday a.m.: The MBTA rolled out shuttle buses to replace Ashmont Red Line service after the water disrupted power to the trains.
A National Grid crew working in the street at Dorchester Avenue at Ashmont Street in Dorchester around 6 p.m., struck a Boston Water and Sewer Commission main, turning Peabody Square into an impassible lake and forcing firefighters to evacuate at least one building after they started smelling a strong odor of gas. Read more.
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