Karyn Regal at WBZ News Radio photographed a box truck that became a bit lighter this morning after its driver disregarded those "CARS ONLY" signs in Allston.
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Soldiers Field Road
By adamg - 2/22/18 - 7:31 pm
Architect's rendering.
A Back Bay development company this week filed plans to build 211 apartments and 38 condos at 1550 Soldiers Field Rd., near where other residential buildings are already going up. Read more
By adamg - 2/14/18 - 10:07 am
Josh Jacobs couldn't help but admire this bucket-truck storrowing on Soldiers Field Road at North Harvard Street shortly before 9:30 a.m.
H/t ThatGuy for the headline.
By adamg - 1/30/18 - 10:00 am
The Board of Appeals today approved plans to replace the old Martignetti liquor store on Soldiers Field Road with a Maserati and Alfa Romeo dealership. Read more.
By adamg - 1/29/18 - 11:02 pm
State Police report arresting a Jamaica Plain man on drunk-driving charges early today after a trooper supervising a storrowed tractor-trailer inbound at the BU Bridge spotted him driving a van outbound despite the lack of two tires. Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/17 - 5:37 pm
Looks like some kiddie got bored with the crayons and coloring pages at the Soldiers Field Road McDonald's on Soldiers Field Road in Brighton and decided to while away the time recreating Will Hunting's work at MIT.
By adamg - 5/6/17 - 9:38 am
JMac captured the aftermath of the storrowing at North Harvard Street this morning.
JGoodell gives us another view. And look: Video of the truck driver trying to move his roof off the roadway.
And it turned into a classic Boston tableau: A storrowed truck and a couple of iced coffees from Dunkin' Donuts: Read more.
By adamg - 3/9/17 - 8:11 pm
John Keith reports that Fiat Chrysler is paying $14 million for the soon-to-be-shut Martignetti Liquors on Soldiers Field Road.
By adamg - 9/2/16 - 5:22 pm
Drivers on the river roads seem intent to make up for last year's absence of good storrowings over Labor Day weekend. James Sappenfield spotted a spectacularly storrowed truck on Soldiers Field Road inbound by the Harvard Business School around noon.
A rental-truck driver brought Storrow Drive inbound to a halt around 4 p.m. with another storrowing that left his truck looking like an occult hand had had some fun with a giant can opener. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/16 - 5:16 pm
Sarah Sahni reports she snapped this photo at 4:15 p.m. today. Better luck next year!
By adamg - 3/6/16 - 12:38 pm
Paul the roving UHub photographer spotted this car-turned-turtle this morning on Soldiers Field Road by the Eliot Bridge in Brighton, around 11:10 a.m. He reports the driver got out by herself, seemed OK and that when he called 911, they reported police were already aware.
By adamg - 11/19/15 - 7:55 am
Good Lord! Shawn the roving UHub photographer wasn't roving very much around 6:40 a.m. when he took this photo of a blessed truck on everybody's favorite river road, the one with all the "CARS ONLY" signs at the entrance ramps:
When Storrow is bumper to bumper at 6:30 in the morning, you know there’s a truck.
By adamg - 8/28/15 - 5:59 pm
DCR, MassDOT and State Police say that since 2007, there have been 25 recorded storrowings on Storrow and Memorial drives and Soldiers Field Road on weekends during which students flow into and out of the city. Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/15 - 11:28 am
Some of the victims 2013 bus crash that sent 32 Pennsylvania students to the hospital are suing two GPS manufacturers saying the bus driver was led astray by his device and that they devices are hazardous menaces because drivers pay more attention to them than the conditions around them. The suit, filed by the lawyer for a student permanently paralyzed in the crash, seeks $15 million.
By adamg - 11/20/14 - 6:08 pm
A bus driver who decided, what the hell, and plowed right through one of those CARS ONLY signs discovered just in time that the BU Bridge inbound would not let him pass. Naturally, at rush hour, this was a bit less than optimal for all the drivers behind him. Or as Eddy S. tweeted at 6 p.m.:
Been in the same spot for about 15 mins under western ave bridge. If you can exit do it!
By adamg - 9/30/14 - 5:38 pm
State Police report that shortly after 1 p.m., the driver of a box truck became the driver of a storrowed box truck thanks to a low-hanging bridge on Soldiers Field Road inbound, near where it turns into Storrow Drive.
As a result of the driver's reading problems, one lane had to be shut until the newly shorn truck could be removed.
By adamg - 9/18/14 - 8:54 am
Well, seems Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was in town today. And as befits somebody of his august position, naturally, he stayed at the Ritz and got a motorcade full of Escalades that, of course, got a full police escort and had Storrow Drive blocked at rush hour?
His public schedule.notes he and his entourage will do it all again tomorrow, starting at Harvard at 9 and then across the Charles back into Boston for an 11 a.m. grip-and-grin with Tom Menino and a bunch of college presidents at BU. River-road motorists take note.
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