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By adamg - 8/9/24 - 1:25 pm
Illegally parked Cybertruck

A perturbed resident filed a 311 complaint this morning, not because this Tesla Cybertruck is an assault on the eyes but because of the way it's hoovered up parking spaces on India Street at Custom House Street downtown: Read more.

By adamg - 8/8/24 - 2:42 pm

Gremlins Traffic Light Scene

One approach rejected by Boston officials.

Boston, which has some of the worst traffic congestion in the world, has adjusted the timing of lights at four intersections in the Fenway, Mission Hill and Jamaica Plain through the use of a Google-based AI application to improve traffic flow- and could extend the application to even more intersections. Read more.

By adamg - 8/6/24 - 1:18 pm

First up, we have the Globe's Brian McGrory, who argues Boylston Street bike lanes are a major mistake, that even pedestrians love the sheer exuberance of a traffic-clogged thoroughfare full of life and the essence of Boston, and man, who doesn't love just driving down the boulevard looking up at all the tall buildings and it's where the Marathon bombings were and besides, there are bike lanes on parallel streets, leave Boylston Street alone! Read more.

By adamg - 8/2/24 - 12:51 pm

WBUR reports the Sumner Tunnel is slated to re-open on Monday, but notes that weekend closings will continue through the fall.

By adamg - 8/1/24 - 9:55 am

MassDOT yesterday sued a Charlestown company whose driver was going down 128 with the back of his "rollback" flatbed in the upright position - at least until he slammed into the bottom of an overpass at Endicott Street in Danvers on Nov. 14, 2020. Read more.

By adamg - 7/28/24 - 7:11 am
Boat on a road in Cambridge

Cambridge Police report a driver hauling a boat on a trailer stopped for a red light at Cambridge and Third streets around 7 p.m., Saturday, the chains holding the boat on the trailer failed and the boat slid right into the road. Took about 40 minutes to get the boat off the road.

Earlier:
The day a boat foundered in downtown Boston.

By adamg - 7/26/24 - 9:22 am
Mopeds about to be hauled off

Roving UHub photographer snapped minibikes on Boylston about to be hauled away.

Boston Police report seizing more than 20 scooters in take-out-heavy areas in the Back Bay, Fenway and the South End yesterday. Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/24 - 2:26 pm

A Boston Police officer was knocked to the ground when hit by a truck at North Washington and Thacher streets around 12:45 p.m.

The driver stayed at the scene.

By adamg - 7/23/24 - 9:40 pm

The Registry of Motor Vehicles says car inspections should resume tomorrow, for the first time since they were knocked out by a vendor's poor excuse of a global Windows software update.

The RMV adds: Read more.

By adamg - 7/23/24 - 9:51 am

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.

By adamg - 7/22/24 - 2:48 pm

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.

By adamg - 7/19/24 - 9:48 am

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.

By adamg - 7/18/24 - 5:13 pm

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.

By adamg - 7/16/24 - 10:19 am
Police, tow worker getting scooters ready for transport somewhere else

Scooters away, in Downtown Crossing.

Boston Police report seizing nine scooters whose owners were driving down Washington Street in Downtown Crossing despite the road legally being closed to them. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/24 - 3:27 pm
U-Haul with its roof peeled back by the North Harvard Street Bridge

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).

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 11:46 am

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.

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 10:54 am
Electronic sign board that seems to tell people they can't have sex after dark

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

By adamg - 7/12/24 - 10:17 am

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.

By adamg - 7/10/24 - 1:40 pm

WBUR reports on Boston's speed-hump program, which aims to install some 2,000 of the traffic-slowing humps.

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