Download or read book A Planning Study of the North Station Area Boston Massachusetts written by Advance Planning Associates (Cambridge, Mass.) and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... This study of downtown Boston's North Station area was sponsored by the North Station Merchants Association in order to develop plans to improve and strengthen the area's economy and physical patterns; includes description of the area, information on its economy, job trends, area questionnaire survey results, a floor space inventory and sections on building conditions, proposed renewal treatment, transportation and traffic patterns, development factors affecting the area, etc.; also includes an aerial view of downtown Boston; copies of this item were in the BRA collection ...
Download or read book Boston North Station Urban Renewal Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mbta Commuter Rail Stations in Boston Massachusetts written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Back Bay (MBTA station), Bellevue (MBTA station), Blue Hill Avenue (MBTA station), Fairmount (MBTA station), Forest Hills (MBTA station), Four Corners/Geneva (MBTA station), Highland (MBTA station), Hyde Park (MBTA station), JFK/UMass (MBTA station), Morton Street (MBTA station), Mount Hope (B&P station), Newmarket (MBTA station), New Brighton Landing (MBTA station), North Station, Readville (MBTA station), Roslindale Village (MBTA station), Ruggles (MBTA station), South Station, Talbot Avenue (MBTA station), Uphams Corner (MBTA station), West Roxbury (MBTA station), Yawkey (MBTA station). Excerpt: South Station, New England's second-largest transportation center (after Logan International Airport), located at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and Summer Street in Dewey Square, Boston, Massachusetts, is the largest train station and intercity bus terminal in Greater Boston. It serves as a major intermodal domestic transportation hub, with service to the Greater Boston region and the Midwestern and Northeastern United States. The historic station building was constructed in 1899 to replace the downtown terminals of several different railroads and is used by thousands of commuter rail and intercity rail passengers daily. The adjacent subway station offers connections to the rapid transit Red Line and Silver Line. South Station's facilities and offerings include: The station is accessible by the general public 24 hours a day, every day of the year. Boston's main inter-city bus terminal, the South Station Bus Terminal is housed in a separate building built over the train platforms along Atlantic Avenue. The bus terminal hosts service by several bus companies to all of New England, New York City, the Mid-Atlantic and Montreal, Canada. It has its own concession area and can be accessed from the Track 1 platform or...
Download or read book Boston Green Line at North Station Alternative Improvements written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boston North Station Urban Renewal Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Improved Transportation Facilities in the Boston Metropolitan District written by Massachusetts. Metropolitan District Commission. Division of Metropolitan Planning and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boston s Orange Line written by Andrew Elder and Jeremy C. Fox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Orange Line is the story of Boston: always in flux but trailed by its long history. Since 1901, this rail line's configuration has evolved in response to changes in the city, society, and technology. Hazardous sections have been eliminated, ownership has transitioned from private to public, and the line has been rerouted to serve growing suburbs and to use land cleared for the failed Inner Belt. Both its northern terminus, which shifted from Everett to Malden, and the southern route, realigned from Washington Street to the Southwest Corridor, have seen dramatic transformations that have in turn changed riders' lives. Today, the line's 10 miles of track curve through many Greater Boston communities, serving thousands along the way.
Download or read book Boston in Transit written by Steven Beaucher and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA. A lively tour of public transportation in Boston over the years, Boston in Transit maps the complete history of the modes of transportation that have kept the city moving and expanding since its founding in 1630—from the simple ferry serving an English settlement to the expansive network of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, or MBTA. The story of public transit in Boston—once dubbed the Hub of the Universe—is a journey through the history of the American metropolis. With a remarkable collection of maps and architectural and engineering drawings at hand, Steven Beaucher launches his account from the landing where English colonists established that first ferry, carrying passengers between what is now Boston’s North End and Charlestown—and sparing them what had been a two-day walk around Boston Harbor. In the 1700s, horse-drawn coaches appeared on the scene, connecting Boston and Cambridge, with the bigger, better Omnibus soon to follow. From horse-drawn coaches, horse-drawn railways evolved, making way for the electric streetcar networks that allowed the city’s early suburbs to sprout—culminating in the multimodal, regional public transportation network in place in Boston today. With photographs, brochures, pamphlets, guidebooks, timetables, and tickets, Boston in Transit creates a complete picture of the everyday experience of public transportation through the centuries. At once a practical reference, local history, and travelogue, this book will be cherished by armchair tourists, day-trippers, and serious travelers alike.
Download or read book Boston Garden and North Station Area written by Chan-Li Lin and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the advancement of structural technology, the accumulation of capital, and legal manipulation of land ownership have made available for development air rights parcels above existing buildings and, in particular, transportation systems. Some cities, including Boston, have chosen to develop these air right parcels after development had exhausted all downtown real estate. These parcels above transportation systems, such as highways and railroads, are by their nature very large. Unfortunately, these large tracts of land have often attracted singular, over-scaled buildings which are isolated from the surrounding downtown fabric. In this thesis, attempts are made to design the architectural infrastructure for development-one which allows for continuity and variety based on the hierarchical organization of spaces, buildings, and their sizes. Boston Garden and the North Station Area is the project site. An open-ended infrastructure IS designed for development of a mixed-use district. Drawings and photographs of models are used to illustrate design concepts and processes.
Download or read book A People s Guide to Greater Boston written by Joseph Nevins and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Download or read book The Railroad Station written by Carroll L. V. Meeks and published by . This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profusely illustrated book chronicles evolution of station architecture in Europe and America, 1830s to 1950s. 231 views -- photographs, illustrations, floor plans and cutaways.
Download or read book Boston s Blue Line written by Frank Cheney and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004-04-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boston's rapid-transit Blue Line covers a distance of 5.94 miles, a twenty-three-minute commute that begins at Bowdoin station in downtown Boston, travels under the harbor, passes Revere Beach, and stops at Wonderland. Today's commuters might be surprised to learn that the line they are riding was once operated by trolley cars and narrow-gauge steam-powered commuter trains, for it was not until 1904 that the East Boston Tunnel under the harbor was completed. By 1917, the number of people riding the Blue Line had climbed to twenty-five thousand a day. Although significant advances had been made to accommodate high-volume commuter traffic, rush-hour congestion at downtown stations remained a problem. In the 1920s, with ridership exceeding forty-two thousand people a day, the Boston Elevated Railway and the Boston Transit Commission agreed to convert the tunnel to a rapid-transit operation with a transfer station at Maverick Square. Further expansion occurred in the 1950s, when the Blue Line was extended to Orient Heights, Suffolk Downs, and Revere Beach.
Download or read book North Terminal Area Study written by Barton-Aschman Associates and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Status of the Transportation System and Plans for Improving Intercity Transportation in the Northeast Corridor written by Peat, Marwick, Livingston & Co and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Official Postal Guide written by United States. Post Office Department and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Official Postal Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Official Guide of the Railways and Steam Navigation Lines of the United States Porto Rico Canada Mexico and Cuba written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
