https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/y1lb98/gas_leak_on_the_pike/

TL;DR - leak is known but "not requiring immediate repair" as it's not near dwellings.

Thanks!

Whenever you think you smell gas, check this link for a map of known gas leaks. Be warned, it's terrifying.

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Yes unfortunately these companies can get away with not fixing their infrastructure 😵‍💫such as waste of resources

Until an entire neighborhood spontaneously catches on fire, that is.

Last 2 years I feel strong GAS smell, but not fixed yet

Gina’s green bean casserole.

127 is old 17, Newton rotary?

The trick is to call the non emergency line and report it whenever you smell it. I had FIVE leaks around my house and guess what… I happened to smell them every few hours, at 12 pm, 3pm, even midnight, so I let the utility know! On the first house call, ask them to tell you when they will fix it, and then you can stop letting them know that the leak is continuing. They have a lot of talking points and will try to enter your home to harass you even on the second and fifteenth call (“because the gas could migrate” — all the more reason to fix it!). DM me if you’d like responses to the talking points and would like to get the utility to fix their broken product spewing into public spaces…

Probably a leak on a pipe on the overpass.

Good luck with that. MASSDOT has to work with the utility to fix that, or MBTA if it’s over the tracks. Took a while to fix a leak in the middle of Mass Ave and Boylston next to Berklee because every utility and the MBTA stuff run under that intersection

You do realize it’s cheaper to triage and replace when scheduled than keep putting bandaids until then. Every time the street is opened up it costs money

No use opening up the street for a grade 3 when a Grade 2 or 2a takes precedent. Mose nuisance leaks are grade 3s anyway and are fixed according to migration area. Bigger migration area means it get priority over smaller migration area.

The leaks are getting fixed, but the higher priority ones are getting done first.

They were likely commenting on something that they have no knowledge the inner workings of. This explains why they triage and replace pretty well.

Honestly, if it’s 1890-1918 cast iron (which it usually is) disturbing the pipe to make a repair on something that only has reads in the street will probably cause another leak. The state is already holding the utilities feet to the fire on replacing cast iron and even more so after the state got its pee pee slapped by the feds after Merrimack Valley.

Monitoring less hazardous leaks instead of putting on a bandaid and opening a can of worms seems to be the more prudent option.

Someone faahted

I did check to make sure it wasn’t me because mine can be vile like natural gas from my GI issues but it wasn’t 🤣