Crime & Safety
Traffic Lights On Washington St. Are Back After 9-Hour Outage
The traffic lights on Washington Street in Newton were out for some nine hours Friday.
NEWTON, MA— Police were directing traffic from about 10:30 a.m. til about 7 p.m. on Washington Street, after an outage in the area. Eversouce had crews out working to repair the problem. And about 7 p.m. the lights were back on.
Earlier in the morning, Eversource tweeted to folks in West Newton that they expected power to be restored around 1 p.m. But it wasn't until around 7 p.m. the traffic lights came back to life.
By 8 p.m. only one customer in Newton was still without power, according to Eversource.
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The company said damage to their equipment caused the outage, but they did not clarify what that exactly meant.
We show a large portion of the Newton outage was just restored moments ago, the remaining customers without power should be restored by 1:00pm.
— Eversource MA (@EversourceMA) September 7, 2018
Were you without power? How did it impact your day? Email Jenna.Fisher@Patch.com
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