A developer has filed plans to build a five-story, 25-unit condo building at 157 Granite Ave. in Dorchester, steps from the Granite Avenue Bridge over the Neponset River. Read more.
Cedar Grove
After years of Milton residents fretting about evil Bostonians swarming their town, it's time for some turnabout: The executive board of the Cedar Grove Civic Association in Dorchester says its residents should join the fight against a ballot question in Milton that would allow denser development in parts of that town, to keep more commuting Miltonians from swarming their neighborhood. Read more.
The Neponset River Greenway Council reports the Greenway Trail in the Cedar Grove/Granite Avenue area could flood at high tide around 11 a.m. on Sunday, Monday at noon and Tuesday around 1 p.m.
A Cedar Grove resident filed a 311 complaint about the "Hate / racist propaganda" complaining about "anti-whiteism" that got put on cars on his street today. Link has a photo of the thing.
At Cedar Grove, around 3 p.m., when one trolley rear ended another. Boston EMS reports 17 people injured, 16 of them taken to the hospital. Read more.
Transit Police have released surveillance video showing the masked man they say beat and dragged a Mattapan Line driver Sunday morning.
WFXT reports on the incident at Cedar Grove involving a man who didn't have any money but didn't want to get off the trolley.
We don't hear much about the Mattapan High-Speed Line - those 1940s-era trolleys just take a lickin' and keep on tickin', but this afternoon the T is warning of "moderate" delays due to a trolley that switched to the tracks across the river Styx.