More Commuters Opting for Mass Transit in BostonMICHELE NORRIS
7.The most important advance in urban transit was the electric trolley. In 1888,on a twelve-mile track in hilly Richmond,Virginia, Frank J. Sprague, a naval engineer and former associate of Thomas Edison, demonstrated the practicality of powering streetcars with electrical currents transferred from...
7.The most important advance in urban transit was the electric trolley. In 1888,on a twelve-mile track in hilly Richmond,Virginia, Frank J. Sprague, a naval engineer and former associate of Thomas Edison, demonstrated the practicality of powering streetcars with electrical currents transferred from...
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aAlthough not technically in Boston, the neighboring cities of Cambridge and Brookline are functionally integrated with Boston by mass transit and effectively a part of the city. Cambridge, just across the Charles River, is home to Harvard, MIT, local galleries, restaurants, and bars and is an...
transit’s demise and comes to an uneasy conclusion:Americaessentially chose the car for a variety of reasons, only one of which was automobile company collusion. I talked with Bloom about why transit in the U.S. collapsed, why it turned out differently in European cities, and the hopes ...
“One of the main reasons to move out of Chinatown is not to move out but to be in a building we own,” Romano said. “We’ll be saving $1 million a year.” Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and members of the community have asked MassDOT to keep a presence in Chinatown. A proposed RMV...
its name. The company laid out private streets with fountains, and it planted shade trees and shrubs to lure prospective home builders and buyers. Everywhere in the urban United States, transit companies invested heavily in such suburban real estate development, thereby encouraging population dispersal...
Mass timber often rivals steel and concrete in strength. Imagine a building material that generates itself with a bit of dirt, sunlight, and water; sequesters carbon automatically; and cancompete with the strength of steel and concretepound for pound in certain applications. Mass timber, a decepti...
One designer has dreamed up a type of train he thinks could replace Boston's entire mass transit system.