If you want to understand Boston traffic imagine a Gordian know around a Rubrics Cube.
Pretty much the same tale as in many big cities. In MN, streets get narrower because of the snow pushed to the side in winter and the rest of the year everything gets clogged up by road repair.
Exactly. I lived on Boylston St. Down toward Fenway Park...I well remember the nonsense of traffic. That was early 70’s...and it only got worse with each municipal “improvement”.
Just read one building has collapsed in Cambridge fire.