Sept. 1 is traditionally the busiest moving day of the year in Boston, and the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the State Police are reminding college students and their parents not to drive overheight moving trucks on Storrow Drive, Memorial Drive, and Soldiers Field Road.
The roads, which hug the Charles River, have numerous low bridges and traffic is subject to vehicle height restrictions. Despite the restrictions and posted signs, there have been at least 25 recorded height restriction-based incidents on the roads since 2007 with a concentration around college move-in and move-out dates, according to DCR.
BOSTON — The MBTA is preparing to more than double its spending on capital projects over the next five years, aiming to spend $6.5 billion to chip away at its state of good repair backlog and expand the transit system over the next five years.
Forecasting that the agency will spend between $850 and $950 million this fiscal year, T officials said Monday they hope to ramp up capital spending to an annual average of $1.3 billion, an amount they said would allow them to finally get ahead of system's upkeep.
