The streets of the North End / Waterfront and downtown Boston just became safer, at least during the day. A State decision came down Friday indicating that dangerous hazardous material trucks won’t be passing through the city during the hours of 6 am to 8 pm. The daytime ban is a win for the North [...]
Tag Archives: HazMat Trucks
Add Your Signature to HazMat Route Letter From North End / Waterfront Hazmat Task Force
We have received indications that MassDOT, the State’s transportation agency, is a week or so away from a decision on our permanent Boston area hazmat truck route. The North End Hazmat Task Force encourages you to remind MassDOT how you feel about this decision. You may sign the letter below with an email of your [...]
HazMat Response Teams Respond to Truck Near Haymarket Carrying Radioactive Materials
Video: CBS Boston video report on the HazMat Radioactive Material Scare today near Haymarket. Bolstering the case for banning cut-through hazmat trucks from the North End and downtown Boston, a truck carrying radioactive materials caused the shutdown of the Haymarket MBTA station and surrounding area this afternoon. The hazmat truck was stopped when Boston Police [...]
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Nabbed Again … HazMat Trucks Still Traveling Through Downtown and Getting Traffic Tickets
With the re-routing decision now in the hands of State transportation officials, hazardous material trucks continue to travel though the center of downtown Boston, the North End and waterfront. A gas tanker is shown above receiving a traffic violation on Surface Road / Atlantic Avenue. Thanks to Bruce McCue for the photo!
HazMat Truck Routing Update: Boston Transportation Commissioner Responds to Suburban Politicians
Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Thomas J. Tinlin has responded to recent press articles and letters from suburban politicians regarding the City of Boston proposal to reroute pass-through hazardous material trucks to Route 128 from city streets (including the North End / Waterfront / Downtown). The public comment period has now ended and the routing decision [...]
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NEWRA Issues Letter Supporting Re-Routing of HazMat Trucks Outside Boston Streets
The North End / Waterfront Residents’ Association has submitted the following letter to State transportation authorities in support of the proposal to reroute pass-through hazardous material trucks from City of Boston streets to highways around the city. Additional information, including the City of Boston routing evaluation, is available on the MassDOT website (select Quick Links, [...]
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Neighborhood Council Issues HazMat Truck Letter
The North End / Waterfront Neighborhood Council, NEWNC, has submitted the following letter in support of the proposal to reroute pass-through hazardous material trucks from City of Boston streets to highways around the city. Donna Freni, NEWNC President, urges all North End/Waterfront residents to submit their own individual letters of support by the public comment [...]
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Minimal Reaction From Suburbanites on HazMat Truck Re-Routing from Boston to Route 128
This video shows the August 30, 2011 public hearing held in Waltham, Mass. regarding the proposed re-routing of pass-through hazardous material (hazmat) trucks from downtown Boston to Route 128 and surrounding highways. City of Boston officials are strongly recommending the hazmat route change based on a comprehensive 182-page public safety analysis recently released by the [...]
Herald Poll and Globe Editorial Support Proposed Boston HazMat Truck Ban
With over 3,000 votes, the results of a Boston Herald web poll this week were decisively in favor of prohibiting hazmat trucks from Boston. The final results were 71% supporting a ban and 29% voting in favor of the truckers. These web polls are far from scientific, but this was a notable end result given [...]
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State Hearing on HazMat Truck Routing Brings Out North End / Waterfront Community, Elected Officials and Trucking Companies
Video: MassDOT public hearing at 10 Park Plaza, Boston on August 23, 2011 regarding the proposed re-routing of hazmat pass-through trucks from the North End / Waterfront and downtown to Route 128 and other highways outside the city. The North End / Waterfront community showed up in force on Tuesday at the first of four [...]
HazMat Truck Poster and Information Flyer for Upcoming Hearings and Public Comments
Your neighbors on the North End / Waterfront Task Force are asking for your help as we gear up for the final leg of the campaign to ban pass-through hazmat trucks from our neighborhood streets. With the City’s public safety study strongly recommending a ban of these hazmat trucks, the routing decision now resides with [...]
HazMat Truck Leak in Downtown Boston Along Greenway by Harbor Towers and Financial District
A leaking gasoline tanker caused a hazmat incident this afternoon in downtown Boston. Police spotted a small, but significant, amount of gasoline leaking from a tanker on Surface Road along the Greenway between the Financial District and Harbor Towers. Police called the Fire Department who brought in the HazMat Response Team to assess the dangerous [...]
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Sunday Herald Cover Story: “No Tank You!” to HazMat Trucks in the North End
With the State’s public hearings coming up at the end of August, today’s Sunday Boston Herald cover story gears up the debate regarding the routing of hazardous material (hazmat) trucks through downtown Boston, including the North End. A recently completed safety study decisively recommends pass-through hazmat trucks (i.e., those not doing business in Boston which [...]
MassDOT Schedules Public Hearings on Proposed HazMat Truck Route
Public Hearings: Proposed Hazardous Material Route Public Hearings will be held by MassDOT, as the state routing agency, to discuss the I-93/I-95 Non-Radioactive Hazardous Material through routing designation proposed by the City of Boston. The four hearings are scheduled as follows: Boston- Tuesday, August 23, 6:30-8:30pm, State Transportation Building, 10 Park Plaza, 2nd Floor Quincy- [...]
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Boston Delegation of State Legislators Issue Letter Unanimously Supporting HazMat Truck Ban
News from the Offices of State Representative Aaron Michlewitz and State Senator Anthony Petruccelli: Representative Michlewitz & Senator Petruccelli lead the way in clearing Boston streets of Hazmat vehicles Boston Delegation unanimous in support of Hazmat ban State Representative Aaron Michlewitz and State Senator Anthony Petruccelli have taken the lead in advocating that the [...]
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City Receives Positive Reaction from North End / Waterfront at HazMat Route Study Meeting
“Based on the differences in route risk, the routes through downtown Boston are significantly higher in risk than travel on the beltway (Route 128).” —Battelle Memorial Institute Study Boston Transportation Department Commissioner Tom Tinlin brought good news to approximately 80 North End / Waterfront residents at this week’s community meeting on hazardous material (hazmat) truck [...]
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Study Says HazMat Trucks are Too Dangerous for North End / Waterfront (and the City of Boston)
Update: A community meeting on this HazMat routing study has been scheduled for Thursday, May 19, 7:00 pm at the Nazzaro Center, 30 N. Bennet St. All are encouraged to attend. The long awaited public safety study on routing hazardous material/cargo (hazmat) trucks has finally reached Boston’s City Hall. According to city officials, the analysis [...]
North End / Waterfront HazMat Task Force Makes Information Request
The North End / Waterfront HazMat Task Force wrote a letter to the State and City transportation departments requesting detailed information regarding the types and quantities of hazardous materials that travel on designated HC routes. Transportation officials are conducting a public safety study of hazardous material cargo truck routes in and around the City of [...]
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Fed Ruling Brings HazMat Trucks Back to North End/Waterfront Streets
The decision came down this week from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration that hazardous material (hazmat) trucks can return to Commercial Street in the North End/Waterfront neighborhood. This ruling reverses the City of Boston’s 2006 daytime ban of hazmat trucks that were not delivering in Boston from cutting through the city rather than going [...]
