State patrol officer in car #2027 is awesome!

This morning it took me an hour to drive from Fort Hill to the JFK/
UMass rotary via Magazine Street, Mass Ave, Columbia Road. Between the
broken water main in Roxbury and the police activity at Columbia Road
and Dorchester Ave.

I saw a couple things that made me really happy though. One, as I sat
in traffic facing east on Columbia Road near the Catholic school, the
aforementioned officer was a few cars ahead of me, put on his
flashers, got out, and directed cars to pull up or pull over so they
were no longer blocking a side street. He then directed cars to ignore
the light (since cars our direction weren't moving) and come out of
the side street and into the empty half of Columbia Road.

I also saw a police car from another town (couldn't read it as I went
by, but not Boston or state patrol) pulling over people who wouldn't
move over for an ambulance. Sweet.