A Boston, Massachusetts above-ground Green Line subway train rumbles by, while a taxicab, a privately owned vehicle, and person walking demonstrate some of the other ways of getting around the city.

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Roads

The Big Dig's Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge (now-complete) over the Charles River.

The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned—a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths—but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century. Except for the Back Bay and part of South Boston, Boston has no street grid, which is confusing for nonresident drivers. Roads change names and lose and add lanes seemingly at random, and many drivers are flummoxed by rotaries. View of Bostons Big Dig from the air. ... View of Bostons Big Dig from the air. ... Metropolitan Highway System Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject which rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief controlled-access highway through the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, into a 3. ... The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge that carries eight lanes of the Interstate 93 and U.S. Route 1 concurrency, plus a two lane access ramp, across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Cambridge and the main campus of Harvard University. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, Athens of America, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City  89. ... This article is about the neighborhood of Back Bay. ... The grid plan is a type of city plan in which streets run at right angles to each other, forming a grid. ... A roundabout, rotary, or gyratory circus is a type of road junction (or traffic calming device) at which traffic streams circularly around a central island after first yielding to the circulating traffic. ...

Expressways and major arterial roads in and around Boston are laid out with two circumferential expressways: Interstate 495 and Route 128. The circumferential routes are bisected by several radial highways that were planned to start in downtown Boston and proceed outward from the city. In reality, the Central Artery was the only one of these radial expressways that was fully completed. The freeway revolt prompted the governor of Massachusetts to halt construction on all remaining expressways within the Route 128 beltway in the early 1970s in lieu of light rail/subway lines to serve areas through which the radial expressways were planned. Interstate 495 (abbreviated I-495) is the designation of an Interstate highway beltway in Massachusetts. ... Route 128, also known as the Yankee Division Highway (for the U.S. 26th Infantry Division), and originally the Circumferential Highway, is a partial beltway around Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ... The Central Artery, officially the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway, is a section of freeway in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, designated as Interstate 93, U.S. Highway 1 and Route 3. ... Late 1940s San Francisco Planning Department Freeway Plan The Freeway Revolt is the name given to public opposition against building freeways through San Francisco, California in the 1950s. ...

By the early 1990s traffic on the elevated artery was an incredible 190,000 vehicles per day, with an accident rate four times the national average for urban interstates. Traffic was bumper-to-bumper for six to eight hours per day, with projections of traffic jams doubling by 2010. Plus, the elevated structure itself was decaying.

For most of the 1990s and early 2000s, driving in Boston was disrupted by the Big Dig, the most expensive (roughly $14 billion) road project in the history of the United States. State officials claim that it will solve the region's traffic woes, but critics recall the same promise in the 1950s when they pushed through the Central Artery—the elevated highway the Big Dig is replacing. Metropolitan Highway System Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject which rerouted the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief controlled-access highway through the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, into a 3. ...

Subways

Main article: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. This is a copyrighted and/or trademarked logo. ... The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is a body politic and corporate, and a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [1] formed in 1964 to finance and operate most bus, subway, commuter rail and ferry systems in the greater Boston, Massachusetts, USA area. ...

Boston has the oldest subway system in North America, with the first underground streetcar traffic dating back to 1897. In the early 1960s, the then-new MBTA hired Cambridge Seven Associates to help develop a new identity. Cambridge Seven came up with a circled T to represent such concepts as "transit", "transportation" and "tunnel." Today, Bostonians call their rapid transit network "the T" and its subway is one of the busiest in the country, with daily ridership of 625,300 trips excluding the Silver Line BRT line,^[1] which compares with the Washington Metrorail's 564,000, the Chicago L's 539,000, and Los Angeles's 270,000, though is dwarfed like the rest by New York City's 4.8 million average daily weekday trips taken. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. ... METRORail is the light rail service in Houston, Texas, United States that started on January 1, 2004. ... The L[1], variously, if perhaps incorrectly, styled L, El, EL, or L, is the rapid transit system that serves Chicago, Illinois in the United States. ...

The basic one-way fare is $1.70 (or $2.00 if paid cash), extra to get on or off at some of the more remote stations, such as Quincy or Riverside. Monthly commuter passes and day and week visitor's passes are available.There are four subway lines in the metropolitan Boston area: the Red Line, Green Line, Orange Line, and Blue Line. The colors of each line have a meaning: the Blue Line runs along the ocean; the Red Line used to terminate at Harvard University (whose school color is crimson); the Orange Line used to run along Washington Street, which was once called Orange Street; and The Green Line runs into the leafy suburbs of Brookline and Newton. Quincy Center is a station on the Red Line subway at 1300 Hancock Street and Washington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. ... The Riverside stop is the western terminus of the MBTA Green Line D branch. ... A rapid transit, underground, subway, tube, elevated, or metro(politan) system is a railway — usually in an urban area — with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic. ... View of Boston from the Red Line An MBTA Red Line train leaving Charles/MGH station bound for Alewife. ... Two trains at Park Street. ... The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the MBTA. It extends from Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain, Boston in the south to Oak Grove in Malden, Massachusetts in the north. ... A Blue Line train at the recently rebuilt Logan Airport station. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) , is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. One of the eight Ivies, it was founded in 1636. ... Crimson is a strong, bright deep red color combined with some blue, resulting in a tiny degree of purple. ...   Settled: 1638 â€“ Incorporated: 1705 Zip Code(s): 02445, 02446, 02447, 02467 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ...   Nickname: The Garden City Settled: 1639 â€“ Incorporated: 1688 Zip Code(s): 02458, 02459, 02460, 02461, 02462, 02464, 02465, 02467, 02468, 02495 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ...

The Green Line is actually four different lines; it starts as one and about halfway through the system it splits into four different branches, the B (Boston College), C (Cleveland Circle), D (Riverside) and E (Heath Street) trains. Because the split is only present on the outbound end of the line one may take any train inbound, but when going outbound one must be careful of which train one gets on or else one will end up in a very different place. The Red Line splits as well, with southbound trains going either to Brantree or Ashmont. Unlike the Red Line, Blue Line and Orange Line, all of which run urban heavy rail cars and use stations with elevated platforms (so that the car is level with the platform and thus the cars are easily handicap-accessible), the Green Line is a trolley/streetcar line and has... Unlike the Red Line, Blue Line and Orange Line, all of which run urban heavy rail cars and use stations with elevated platforms (so that the car is level with the platform and thus the cars are easily handicap-accessible), the Green Line is a trolley/streetcar line and has... The D Branch, also called the Highland Branch or Riverside Branch, is a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, along which light rail vehicles run. ... The E Branch or Arborway Branch is a streetcar line in the Boston, Massachusetts area, operating as a branch of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Green Line. ...

Though most of Boston's rapid transit network is powered via third rail, significant portions of the Blue Line, as well as all of the Green Line and the Mattapan High Speed Line are powered by overhead lines. The name "subway" is something of a misnomer, as large segments of each of the major lines runs above ground. Additionally, the Green Line and Mattapan High Speed Lines are technically light-rail services, using trolley cars rather than the typical multiple unit trains. The Mattapan line uses refurbished pre-war "PCC" trolleys; the Green Line relies on more modern LRV cars from Japan and Italy. For lower capacity public transit systems, see tram, light rail, bus, and bus rapid transit. ... Third rail at the West Falls Church Metro stop in the Washington, D.C. area, electrified to 750 volts. ... The Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (or Mattapan-Ashmont Line, or just the M Line) is considered part of the MBTAs Red Line, even though it uses different equipment (trolleys) and passengers have to change at Ashmont. ... The overhead lines of a Swiss Federal Railways track. ... A tram of the Luas system in Dublin, Ireland Shanghai Metro transit station, China A METRORail train approaching Preston Station in downtown Houston, Texas, USA. The Guadalajara urban L-train system (SITEUR), at first a trolleybus system, opened in 1980; the second line was opened in 1994, and a third... This article refers to the mass transit vehicle. ... A classic Belgian multiple unit of type 74 A multiple unit (MU) is a passenger train whose carriages have their own motors, either diesel (DMUs) or electric (EMUs), and do not need to be hauled by a locomotive, and can be coupled with other similar units to operate together, in... A Twin City Rapid Transit PCC streetcar in museum operation. ... This article is about light rail systems in general. ...

Elevated sections

Despite the first section being built underground, many later parts were built as elevated railways. The only old-style elevated remaining is the Red Line at Charles-MGH, between the tunnel under Beacon Hill and the Longfellow Bridge. Until 2004, the Green Line was elevated near North Station; the tunnel to replace it opened in the summer of 2004. The part north of there will remain elevated and runs along a concrete arch bridge. Subway redirects here; for the restaurant named Subway, see Subway (restaurant). ... View of Boston from the Red Line An MBTA Red Line train leaving Charles/MGH station bound for Alewife. ... Charles/MGH Station, December 2004 Charles/MGH Station is located at the intersection of Cambridge Street and Charles Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Cutting down Beacon Hill, about 1800; a view from the north toward the Massachusetts State House. ... Taken late on a February 2002 afternoon, the MBTAs Red Line trains crossing at rush hour with the Beacon Hill and the Boston skyline in the distance. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Two trains at Park Street. ... Platforms at North Station North Station, located at Causeway and Nashua Streets, in Boston, Massachusetts is a major transportation hub. ... Concrete being poured, raked and vibrated into place in residential construction in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... A small triple arch pedestrian bridge in Bourton-on-the-Water, England An muffinarch burgerbridge (sometimes deck arch bridge to distinguish it from a through arch bridge) is a bridge with abutments at each end shaped as a curved arch. ...

The Boston Elevated Railway was the company that owned all the elevateds and subways. The following els once existed: By 1925, streetcars were gone from most downtown streets. ...

• Causeway Street Elevated (closed 2004), from the Haymarket Incline to the Lechmere Viaduct
• Washington Street Elevated (closed 1987), from Forest Hills to an incline north of the Masspike
• Charlestown Elevated (closed April 4, 1975), from the Haymarket Incline to Everett
• Atlantic Avenue Elevated (closed 1938), from the Washington Street El at the Castle Street Wye at Herald Street (Tower 'D') to the Charlestown El and Causeway Street El at North Station (Tower 'C')

Looking north up the incline in 1929. ... The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Bostons Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line (named after the original name for a section of Washington St, Orange St. ... Forest Hills Station is a station on the MBTA Orange Line, located in the southern part of Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts between the intersection of Washington Street and Hyde Park Avenue and the intersection of Center Street and South Street. ... Massachusetts Turnpike logo. ... Stations on the Orange Line (previously called the Main Line) before destruction of the Charlestown El were (from south to north): North Station City Square Station Thompson Square Station Sullivan Square Station Everett Station (terminal) ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ... 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Looking north up the incline in 1929. ... The Atlantic Avenue Elevated outside South Station Map of the Atlantic Avenue Elevated (at right) and related lines The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railways Main Line (now the Orange Line... Platforms at North Station North Station, located at Causeway and Nashua Streets, in Boston, Massachusetts is a major transportation hub. ...

Criticism

As of 2006, the MBTA is facing significant debt, and is planning an unpopular fare hike, along with a new fare collection system, to help in its reduction. Each of these measures have proven thus far unpopular.

When the Orange Line was realigned in the 1980s, its course was altered away from the poorer areas of Everett, Chelsea and Roxbury toward the more affluent towns of Malden and Medford, and the trendy Jamaica Plain neighborhood. The MBTA's response to this change, a Bus Rapid Transit system that follows the route of the old Washington Street Elevated called the Silver Line, has been called inadequate by some. Everett is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts near Boston. ... Chelsea City Hall The City of Chelsea is located in Suffolk County, Massachusetts directly across the Mystic River from the City of Boston. ... Roxbury is a neighborhood within Boston, Massachusetts. ... Malden Auditorium in 1909   Settled: 1640 â€“ Incorporated: 1649 Zip Code(s): 02148 â€“ Area Code(s): 339 / 781 Official website: http://www. ... Medford is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts just a few miles north of Boston on the Mystic River. ... Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. ... There is a large number of public transport systems in European towns that fulfill several of the BRT criteria given above, but they are rarely designated as BRT. Bus lanes and exclusive use of key city-centre streets is commonplace, and bus priority on approach to traffic lights is quite... The Washington Street Elevated was an elevated segment of Bostons Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority subway system, comprising the southern stretch of the Orange Line (named after the original name for a section of Washington St, Orange St. ... Map The Silver Line is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authoritys (MBTAs) sole Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line, running in two, unconnected sections, from Dudley Square in Roxbury to downtown Boston, Massachusetts and from South Station to several points in South Boston and to Logan Airport in East Boston. ...

Many Bostonians also resent the fact that they cannot go from one outlying area to another without first riding downtown and changing lines. Also, The T stops running at 12:45 a.m. each night, despite the fact that bars and clubs in most areas of Boston are open until 2 a.m. This eliminates, for many, the potential to use The T to avoid driving drunk. Unfortunately, the T's early closing time can't be changed. Since the T (unlike the New York City subway) doesn't have double tracking, maintenance can only be done when the T isn't running, and "with a 109-year-old system", says the MBTA press secretary, "you have to be out there every night".^[2] Drunk driving (drink driving in the UK) or drinking and driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle after having consumed alcohol (i. ... The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system operated by the New York City Transit Authority, an affiliate of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority as MTA New York City Transit. ...

References

• Chronology of subway construction in Boston

Commuter rail

The MBTA's commuter rail system, sometimes known as the Purple Line, brings people from as far away as Worcester and Providence, Rhode Island into Boston. Lines from the North Shore and northwestern suburbs begin and terminate at North Station; lines from the South Shore and the west start and end at South Station. There are approximately 125,000 one-way trips on the commuter rail each day. The MBTA Commuter Rail is the regional rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. ...   Nickname: The Heart of the Commonwealth, The City of the Seven Hills, Wormtown Settled: 1673 â€“ Incorporated: 1684 Zip Code(s): 01608 â€“ Area Code(s): 508 / 774 Official website: http://www. ... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City, The Divine City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence  - Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 53. ... Platforms at North Station North Station, located at Causeway and Nashua Streets, in Boston, Massachusetts is a major transportation hub. ... South Station front entrance. ...

Bus Rapid Transit

In an effort to provide service intermediate in speed and capacity between subways and buses, the MBTA has begun projects using the Bus Rapid Transit, or BRT, system. The MBTA has one BRT line, the Silver Line, though it currently operates in two separated sections. There is a large number of public transport systems in European towns that fulfill several of the BRT criteria given above, but they are rarely designated as BRT. Bus lanes and exclusive use of key city-centre streets is commonplace, and bus priority on approach to traffic lights is quite... Map The Silver Line is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authoritys (MBTAs) sole Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line, running in two, unconnected sections, from Dudley Square in Roxbury to downtown Boston, Massachusetts and from South Station to several points in South Boston and to Logan Airport in East Boston. ...

Buses

Main article: MBTA Bus The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority operates a large number of bus lines in the greater Boston area. ...

The MBTA operates 162 bus routes within the Greater Boston area with a combined ridership of approximately 375,000 one-way trips per day. Included are four of the few remaining trolleybus lines in the U.S. (71, 72, 73 and 77a). The basic bus fare is $0.90; monthly commuter passes are available, as are transfers between some bus lines and the subway. An articulated bus operated by the CTA in Chicago, Illinois, USA. A Go North East Bus parked in a lay-by in Tyne and Wear, England A bus is a large road vehicle intended to carry numerous persons in addition to the driver and sometimes a conductor. ... Å koda 14 Tr trolleybus in Vilnius, Lithuania. ...

In addition, South Station is a major bus depot for inter-city travel. Many bus lines such as Greyhound and Peter Pan operate from the station. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... For other meanings, see Bus stop (disambiguation). ... Greyhound Lines is the largest intercity common carrier of passengers by bus in North America, serving 2200 destinations in the United States. ... Peter Pan Bus Lines is a long-distance bus carrier that operates in the northeastern states of the United States. ...

Transit information

The MBTA offers a trip planner on its web site that provides information for public transit in Boston and surrounding areas. Riders enter their intended origin and destination, along with optional time, date, and other information, and the trip planner displays itineraries showing the stops, depature and arrival times, and times to get from the origin to the destination.

Walking and Bicycling

Boston is known to travel agents as "America's Walking City". Boston is a compact city, sized right for walking or bicycling and according to a Prevention magazine report in 2003, the city has the highest percentage of on-foot commuters of any city in the United States. In 2000, 13.36% of Boston commuters walked to work according to the US Census. This was the highest of any major US city, but bested by college towns such as nearby Cambridge. Most of the area's cities and towns have standing committees devoted to improvements to the bicycle and pedestrian environment. Prevention is an American healthy lifestyle magazine, published by Rodale Press in Emmaus, Pennsylvania, in the United States. ... The following is a list of United States cities of 100,000+ inhabitants with the 50 highest rates of pedestrian commuting, according to data from the 2000 Census. ... 1880 US Census of Hoboken, New Jersey The United States Census is mandated by the United States Constitution[1]. The population is enumerated every 10 years and the results are used to allocate Congressional seats (congressional apportionment), electoral votes, and government program funding. ...   Settled: 1630 â€“ Incorporated: 1636 Zip Code(s): 02138, 02139, 02140, 02141, 02142 â€“ Area Code(s): 617 / 857 Official website: http://www. ...

Although cycling is popular in Boston, for both recreation and commuting, Bicycling magazine, in its March 2006 issue, named the city as one of its three worst cities for cycling. The distinction was earned for roads that are in terrible shape, few bike lanes that are disconnected, and a city government that makes pro-bike gestures, then rescinds them, such as hiring a bike coordinator, then eliminating the position after only two years. Neighboring Cambridge, MA earned an honorable mention as one of the best cities for cycling with a population of 75,000-200,000. Harvard Square, May 2000 Cambridge is a city in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. ...

Boston has an active Critical Mass ride and MassBike is a bike advocacy group active in supporting cyclists in the area. The Minuteman Bikeway (which runs though several suburbs of Boston) and Charles River bike paths are popular with recreational cyclists and tourists. Many MBTA riders use a bicycle to get to the station. San Francisco Critical Mass, April 29, 2005 Critical Mass is a bike ride typically held on the last Friday of every month in cities around the world where bicyclists and, less frequently, skateboarders, roller bladers, roller skaters and other self-propelled commuters take to the streets en masse. ... The Minuteman Bikeway; is an 11 mile paved, mixed-use recreational Rail Trail and cycle path in suburban Boston, Massachusetts. ... The Charles River from the Boston side, facing Cambridge and the main campus of Harvard University. ...

Satellite parking

The MBTA operates several large park and ride facilities on its subway and commuter rail lines, close to major highways. While most of these tend to fill up with commuters on weekday mornings, they provide a good place for visitors to leave their cars and see the city without parking hassles on evenings and weekends. a park-and-ride bus in Oxford Park and ride terminals are public transport stations that allow commuters to drive short distances in their personal automobiles to catch a ride on a bus or railroad system (usually classified as light rail or the heavier commuter rail). ...

Intercity trains

There are two major rail stations in Boston: North Station and South Station. There is a third station in Back Bay and a fourth, outside the city, on Route 128. All of these are served by commuter rail and Amtrak. Amtrak's Northeast Corridor service terminates at South Station; Amtrak's Downeaster service to Maine terminates at North Station. There is no direct rail connection between North Station and South Station; most transfers from one side to the other can be done using the MBTA Orange Line from North Station to Back Bay. See also North-South Rail Link. Passengers bustle around the typical grand edifice of Londons Broad Street Station in 1865. ... Platforms at North Station North Station, located at Causeway and Nashua Streets, in Boston, Massachusetts is a major transportation hub. ... South Station front entrance. ... This article is about the neighborhood of Back Bay. ... Route 128 is a ring highway with Boston at its center and surrounded by the concentric Interstate 495. ... Acela Express in West Windsor, NJ Amtrak Cascades service with tilting Talgo trainsets in Seattle, Washington Amtrak train in downtown Orlando, Florida For other uses, see Amtrak (disambiguation). ... Most of the NEC (those sections shown in red, except Boston to the Rhode Island state line) is owned by Amtrak. ... The Downeaster is a 116-mile (187 km) passenger train route operated by Amtrak, connecting North Station in Boston, Massachusetts to Portland, Maine. ... Official language(s) None (English de facto; French is also an administrative language) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area  Ranked 39th  - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 km²)  - Width 210 miles (338 km)  - Length 320 miles (515 km)  - % water 13. ... The Orange Line is one of the four subway lines of the MBTA. It extends from Forest Hills in Jamaica Plain, Boston in the south to Oak Grove in Malden, Massachusetts in the north. ... The North-South Rail Link is a plan for a passenger railroad tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts to connect South Station to North Station. ...

Aviation

Main article: List of airports in the Boston area

Boston enjoys extensive domestic and international airline service at three airports: The following public airports are located in the area around Boston, Massachusetts. ...

• Logan International Airport in East Boston
• T. F. Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island
• Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in Manchester, New Hampshire

There are also several general aviation facilities including Hanscom Field in Bedford and Norwood Municipal Airport. Silver Line bus rapid transit connects Logan terminals with South Station and there are shuttle buses between the terminals and the Blue Line Airport station. Train service is planned from T.F. Green to Boston. Logan International Airport with aircraft taking off over harbor Bostons Logan International Airport from the airside lounge of Terminal E, illustrating how the airport is largely surrounded by water. ... East Boston was annexed by the City of Boston in 1636 and is separated from the rest of the city by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek. ... Runway layout at PVD T. F. Green Airport (IATA: PVD, ICAO: KPVD, FAA LID: PVD), also known as Theodore Francis Green State Airport, is a public airport located in Warwick, six miles (10 km) south of Providence, in Kent County, Rhode Island, USA. Dedicated in 1931, the airport was named... Nickname: Beehive of Industry, The Renaissance City, The Divine City Location in Rhode Island Coordinates: Country United States State Rhode Island County Providence  - Mayor David N. Cicilline (D) Area    - City 53. ... FAA diagram of Manchester Airport Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (IATA: MHT, ICAO: KMHT) is a public airport located in 3 miles (5 km) south of Manchester, New Hampshire on the county line of Hillsborough and Rockingham counties. ... Nickname: Queen City Location in Hillsborough County Coordinates: Country United States State New Hampshire County Hillsborough County Incorporated 1751 Mayor Frank Guinta (R) Area    - City 90. ... General aviation (abbr. ... Hanscom Field (IATA: BED, ICAO: KBED) is an airport located in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States and is operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority. ... Exterior, Unitarian Meeting House (1816). ... Map The Silver Line is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authoritys (MBTAs) sole Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line, running in two, unconnected sections, from Dudley Square in Roxbury to downtown Boston, Massachusetts and from South Station to several points in South Boston and to Logan Airport in East Boston. ... There is a large number of public transport systems in European towns that fulfill several of the BRT criteria given above, but they are rarely designated as BRT. Bus lanes and exclusive use of key city-centre streets is commonplace, and bus priority on approach to traffic lights is quite... South Station front entrance. ... A Blue Line train at the recently rebuilt Logan Airport station. ... The New Airport Station, January 2005 The new Airport Station on the Boston subways Blue Line provides a mass transit connection to Logan International Airport (BOS). ...

Since September 11, 2001 attacks to the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, exceptionally strict security has been implemented at some of Boston's airports, especially Logan and Hanscom fields because some of the perpetrators of this attack boarded planes at Logan. Because of this and Boston's location as the closest American port to Europe, it is one of the main destinations for airliners that experience security breaches or disturbances while enroute to the U.S. However, in many cases airplanes are diverted to Halifax, Nova Scotia, or other Canadian airports. The date that commonly refers to the attacks on United States citizens on September 11, 2001 (see the September 11, 2001 Attacks). ... “WTC” redirects here. ... The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense, located at 48 N. Rotary Road, Arlington, Virginia 22211 (Map). ... Motto: Template:Unhide = E Mari Merces (Wealth from the Sea) Logo: Location City Information Established: April 1, 1996 Area: (former city) 79. ...

See also

• Boston, Massachusetts
• MBTA accessibility
• Zipcar

Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, Athens of America, The Hub (of the Universe)1 Location in Massachusetts, USA Counties Suffolk County  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area    - City  89. ... As is true for most mass transit systems, much of the Boston subway and commuter rail lines were built before wheelchair access was a requirement. ... Zipcar Corporate Logo. ...

External links

• http://www.masspike.com/bigdig/index.html — I-93 Tunnel
• http://www.mbta.com
• http://www.mbta.com/insidethet/taag_history.asp — MBTA History

Sources:

• http://www.mbta.com/profile/glance/ridership.cfm
• http://www.mbta.com/profile/glance/infrastructure.cfm
• http://www.mbta.com/schedmaps/maps/system/
• http://members.aol.com/netransit/
• http://www.boston-online.com/Transportation/Trains/
• Car Free in Boston
• http://www.pathfriends.org/