The duck boat parade for the Super Bowl XLIX champion New England Patriots is scheduled to get rolling Wednesday morning, beginning at 11 a.m. around the Prudential Tower. The crowd of people driving into the city, coupled with the typical morning commute traffic appears to have gridlocked street and highway traffic – again.
Related: Here’s the route the Pats victory parade will take through Boston
Sluggish MBTA service and ongoing snow removal brought Boston traffic to a standstill late Tuesday afternoon and into the evening rush hour. The T and the mounds of snow still visible across the city have some questioning the decision to hold the Pats rolling rally Wednesday morning.
Naysayers are pointing to the current traffic situation as proof that holding the parade Wednesday is bound to cause problems. We will see. (For the record, many Patriots players are bouncing to a well-earned vacation ASAP, one reason for the revelry rush.)
Here, some sights and sounds from this morning’s commute.
@cbsboston @PaulaEbbenWBZ trying to go to work in Boston today in Parade traffic.#Bostonnotready pic.twitter.com/xN6wtJsqoZ
— steven sullivan (@stevenrsullivan) February 4, 2015
If anyone is looking for the duck boats, they're stuck with the rest of us in TRAFFIC #patriotsparade #boston pic.twitter.com/h5qnFmLrzW
— hermoves (@hermoves) February 4, 2015
Stereotypical Boston: traffic in the tunnel and 2 Dunkin donuts right next to each other… pic.twitter.com/ImO4CYt65m
— Molly Jaffe (@molly_jaffe) February 4, 2015
It’s 11° out, traffic was gridlocked in Boston yesterday, huge snowbanks, let’s have a #Patriots parade. #Genius
— Chip Soley (@chipsoley) February 4, 2015
Boston Logic: traffic has been backed up for hours, and people are stuck in garages…hey let’s have a parade!
— Steph (@StephhTaylor19) February 4, 2015
#Boston officials: 1: “Traffic is a mess. What should we do?” 2: “Shut down the streets for a #SuperBowl parade?” 1: “That works!” #BOSnow
— Frank Ramblings (@FrankRamblings) February 4, 2015
Traffic heading into Boston is already a mess like yesterday. Worse due to parking bans being lifted. Patriots parade still on. #BadIdea
— Michael A. Uttley (@22u) February 4, 2015
Now if only #Boston could plow out the curb cuts to facilitate pedestrian traffic near South Station…
— Jeremy Burton (@BurtonJM) February 4, 2015
I made fun of Boston traffic and now I’m stuck in awful traffic on the most innocuous street in worc 🙁 🙁 🙁
— Lynn (@throughthepines) February 4, 2015
Another top notch traffic day —Boston smfh
— cHiMp (@No_cod_chimp) February 4, 2015
Today must be Olympics preview day for traffic in Boston. If you want to see the parade, save yourself the trouble and watch on tv
— Aaron Smith (@itsroastintime) February 4, 2015
. @marty_walsh Why did #Boston not plow curb-to-curb on roads that had parking banned in the #Snow Emergency? #traffic
— Matt Soleyn (@MattSoleyn) February 4, 2015
