At 1 p.m., Gov. Healey announced a statewide state of emergency. She activated the Bunka. And she was wearing a MEMA fleece. Read more.
By adamg - Sun, 02/22/2026 - 10:55am
Mayor Wu just now: Snow emergency, you bet. Storm of potentially "historic proportions." Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 02/19/2026 - 10:45pm
A peeved resident files a 311 complaint about a BMW with Virginia plates parked on Boylston Street where it meets Park Drive in the Fenway and alerts us to the news that not only is that weird little bit of Boylston under state jurisdiction, but DCR has parking tickets and it knows how to use them - although the kvetcher says all those warnings and tickets means it's past time to tow the car away. See larger.
By adamg - Tue, 02/10/2026 - 11:53am
But for some reason, they've confined their experiment to their Francis Street garage.
By adamg - Sun, 02/08/2026 - 12:09pm
As Boston's 311 system fills up with complaints about space savers, including accounts of violence, Sam McGillis has been quietly going around East Boston's Jeffries Point with a snow shovel, chopping down and clearing away mounds of increasingly icy snow to create new curbside spaces for anyone to use. In the Jeffries Point Neighborhood Association forum on Facebook, he wrote yesterday (with photos): Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/30/2026 - 12:33pm
Chris Kuczynski of Roslindale, who works in the Seaport, couldn't help but notice how Southie is keeping up its reputation for unusual space savers.
Ed. note: Went out in the UHub Mobile Action News Unit the other day to survey the scene in Southie's competitor in the Space Saving Olympics, yes, JP, but was disappointed to find just boring old cones, chairs and crates - maybe we just missed the good streets.
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By adamg - Tue, 01/27/2026 - 11:01am
Jordan Frias had no bone to pick with this space saver on Marginal Street in East Boston this morning. Read more.
By adamg - Sat, 01/24/2026 - 11:16am
Mayor Wu has declared a city snow emergency that starts at 8 a.m. on Sunday and ends, well, when Mother Nature and city officials say so. Read more.
By adamg - Mon, 01/19/2026 - 11:23pm
A crash involving at least three cars on the Jamaicaway at Perkins Street around 10:10 p.m. left three adults and two toddlers shaken up enough to require examination by EMTs from the three ambulances that responded. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 01/16/2026 - 10:34am
NBC Boston reports on a crash between a car and a dump truck on Cambridge Street near Soldiers Field Road and the turnpike ramp in Allston that ended with the dump truck going through a guard rail and down to the ground. Boston EMS transported the driver to a local hospital.
By adamg - Thu, 01/15/2026 - 3:12pm
Roving UHub photographer Shamus Moynihan spotted this freshly shorn and partially disassembled truck tooling down South Huntington Avenue in Jamaica Plain today. That's pretty far from the river roads, and even the train bridges that sometimes mean a storrowing in West Roxbury, so we don't know where the driver got his truck's haircut.
By adamg - Wed, 01/14/2026 - 2:15pm
NBC Boston reports on the mult-car crashing around 8 a.m. on West Side Drive, which runs along one side of the Menino Convention Center.
By adamg - Thu, 12/18/2025 - 2:02pm
Story corrected to reflect the fact the author was an idiot who didn't read the original report closely enough.
The Dorchester Reporter reports the state is weighing two options for replacing the superannuated Morrissey Boulevard bridge - one would continue to get it up to allow boats to pass underneath, the other which would be a permanent fixed span that would be tall enough to allow boat traffic.
By adamg - Sun, 12/14/2025 - 2:48pm
A disgusted resident files a 311 complaint about the apres-snow situation at K and East 7th streets in South Boston: Read more.
By adamg - Thu, 12/11/2025 - 10:03am
Massachusetts yesterday sued a Bridgewater trash company and one of its drivers for the $1.5 million in damage it charges the driver did to a Masssachusetts Turnpike overpass in Newton in 2022 because he was hurtling down the road with a raised pneumatic lift that exceeded the overpass's height limit. Read more.
By adamg - Fri, 11/28/2025 - 11:04am
On Monday, the Globe noted state Sen. Brendan Crighton (D-Lynn), who co-chairs the legislature's Joint Committee on Transportation, brought up the idea of charging people a fee to drive into Boston during peak hours - just like New York is doing in lower and mid-Manhattan, to help pay for the T. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 5:17pm
Roving UHub photographer Jed Hresko spotted this Accord in the South Bay parking lot yesterday with a list of citations for court cases where you'd expect a license plate. Read more.
By adamg - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 1:09pm
An upset resident files a 311 complaint about the situation on Salcombe and Stoughton streets in Dorchester ever since they became speedy cut-throughs for drivers trying to avoid the new speed bumps on Pleasant Street: Read more.
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