MassDOT, Mapfre Insurance Reminder: Trip Journey, Sluggish Down and Move Over

BOSTON — Summer is at its peak, and similar to we would like summer time to decelerate, take it as a motto to decelerate as nicely. The summer time climate means a number of actions and journey, in addition to modifications in visitors patterns for trip locations, particular occasion visitors, and highway building tasks. Keep alert and plan your journeys. Be ready for surprising bottlenecks attributable to incidents and building tasks. 

Mapfre and MassDOT remind drivers of the significance of slowing down and shifting over for emergency automobiles and highway building. Massachusetts’ “Move Over” regulation requires all drivers approaching stationary emergency, freeway upkeep, utility, or tow automobiles with flashing lights to maneuver to the following adjoining lane whether it is secure to take action. If altering lanes just isn’t doable, drivers should proceed with warning and cut back their pace considerably.  

One particular occasion that happened just lately is the Pan-Mass Challenge, which raised practically $64 million this yr alone. The Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC) is a Massachusetts-based bike-a-thon and the most important athletic fundraising occasion within the nation. Always held on the primary weekend in August, the Pan-Mass Challenge raises funds for Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a world chief in grownup and pediatric most cancers remedy and analysis. 

Mapfre Insurance is proud to be a sponsor of this vital occasion and of the MassDOT Highway Assistance Program. Corporate sponsors make it doable for the PMC to move by means of 100% of each greenback raised by riders. Over One Billion {dollars} has been raised by the PMC since its begin in 1980. 

The Mapfre Insurance-sponsored MassDOT Highway Assistance Program is on patrol to assist all motorists, together with motorcyclists, on the highways. Patrol operators monitor a few of the state’s busiest highways round Metro Boston, Worcester, Springfield, and Cape Cod (seasonal). The Highway Assistance Patrol covers 13 main state roadways and interstates, the Emergency Service Patrol covers the Mass Pike (I-90) from New York to Boston and the Incident Response Operators cowl the Metropolitan Highway System and tunnels. The Highway Assistance Patrol is in service Monday–Friday between 6 a.m.–10 a.m. and three p.m.–7 p.m. During holidays, there are prolonged routes in heavy-traffic areas. On I-90, and in Boston’s tunnel system, help is offered 24 hours per day, 7 days per week. 

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