The RMV reported this morning its statewide car-inspection system remains down because of that stupid computer-security company's massive screwup last week. Good news for motorcycle owners, though: You can get your wheels inspected now. The Registry says it's working as hard as it can with its vendor, Opus, (presumably not a penguin) to get things fixed.
Mark Garfinkel captured the box truck emblazoned with giant lobster claws whose driver ignored onramp warning signs and so slammed into a Storrow Drive bridge today.
Update, 2:25 p.m.: RMV says its officers are open for appointments again but that the statewide vehicle inspection system remains offline.
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles reports it's been hit by the same Windows security-software screwup as Mass General Brigham, which means it's had to cancel all customer-service-center appointments before noon "as many workstations at centers are not operational." Read more.
There are places to be courteous and let someone in ahead of you, but a Boston rotary is not one of them. A really peeved roving UHub driver from Roslindale is worried somebody's going to get killed if people don't stop stopping in the middle of a rotary to let somebody else into the flow of traffic (reminder for outatownas: People already in a rotary have the right of way): Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Paul K. reports he was inbound on Soldiers Field Road down by Harvard Stadium today when he "hit a wave of traffic and saw a mangled U-Haul backing up."
He adds that if you look up the bridge the driver will probably never hit again on Google Maps, it's actually marked "low clearence" (so, yeah, Google Maps needs some spelling help).
A Boston board that oversees a federally mandated limit on the total number of parking spaces in Boston Proper voted last month to forbid any more parking at a lot between Hudson and Harvard streets in Chinatown, arguing the 30-space lot violates the parking cap. Read more.
A concerned resident files a 311 complaint about the sign that used to tell people they couldn't park overnight along Denny and Springdale streets near McConnell Park in Dorchester, but which has acquired a new interpretation:
The sign use to say no parking after dark but it looks like it could say something different
A proposal to begin charging drivers a fee to come into downtown Boston will remain in committee as its sponsors consider what are turning out to be some possibly complex issues. Read more.
WBUR reports on Boston's speed-hump program, which aims to install some 2,000 of the traffic-slowing humps.
A disgusted citizen filed a 311 complaint about BTD's callous disregard for Beacon Hill residents by refusing to send in a squadron of ticket writers to ding people parking illegally on Brimmer Street to attend Sunday services at an unspecified church on Mt. Vernon Street (Church of the Advent?): Read more.
WBUR has the details on how to get between East Boston and downtown during the summer repair shutdown of the Sumner Tunnel, which starts Friday.
At least three drivers got stuck in the raging floodwaters, well, deeper-than-it-looks lake that formed on Spring Street in front of the Star Market plaza in West Roxbury tonight. Read more.
Local 718 posted photos today of firefighters' cars at Engine 33 and Ladder 15 at Boylston and Hereford streets after the firefighters "returned to the firehouse to find their personal vehicles severely damaged and vandalized." Read more.
Jonathan Cohn captured the epilogue of a flaming Honda at Massachusetts and Huntington avenues this afternoon.
Cambridge Police report a woman bicycling on Hampshire Street died this morning after the driver of a box truck heading in the same direction turned right onto Portland Street, killing her. Read more.
On the Channel captured the scene on A Street at Melcher Street in Fort Point, where the driver of a Hyundai Tucson somehow flipped the vehicle shortly before 8 a.m. He was able to get out of the SUV himself before first responders arrived.
MassDOT today sued a trucking company in Lincoln, AL that had a worker haul a giant tank south on I-93 in Medford, where it collided with the bottom of a bridge over the highway, shutting the road and causing what the state says was $2.65 million in damage in 2021. Read more.
Firefighter walks by pickup in window.
Matt Wunderlich captured the scene after a driver plowed into the front of the Brookline Ballet School, 1431 Beacon St. in Brookline around 4:40 p.m. Read more.
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