Fort Point Channel is a channel separating South Boston from downtown Boston, Massachusetts, feeding into Boston Harbor. The south part of it has been gradually filled in for use by the South Bay Yard rail yard and several highways (specifically the Central Artery and the Southeast Expressway). At its south end, the channel once widened into South Bay, from which the Roxbury Canal continued southwest where the Massachusetts Avenue Connector is now. South Boston is a heavily populated neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts, located south of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded  -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city  County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 232. ... Categories: Stub | Massachusetts geography | Boston ... Chicago and Northwestern Railways Proviso Yard in Chicago, Illinois, December 1942. ... Mitchell Freeway in Perth, Western Australia For other uses, see Highway (disambiguation). ... 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. ...

Crossings

The following bridges and tunnels cross or used to cross the channel, from north to south, with building/opening dates:

• Northern Avenue Bridge
• Evelyn Moakley Bridge (New Northern Avenue/Seaport Boulevard)
• Silver Line tunnel
• Congress Street Bridge 1850
• Summer Street Bridge 1899
• New York and New England Railroad (gone)
• Mount Washington Avenue Bridge (gone)
• Fort Point Channel Tunnel (I-90)
• Dorchester Avenue Bridge (formerly Federal Street Bridge)
• Atlantic Avenue Viaduct (gone)
• New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad and the wye connection to the west-facing lines (now used by the MBTA Commuter Rail) and the Red Line tunnel roughly underneath
• Broadway Bridge (relocated, new bridge opened January 19, 1999[1])

The channel now ends here; the remaining bridges cross the South Bay Yard. Map The Silver Line is the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authoritys (MBTAs) sole Bus Rapid Transit 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. ... 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The New England Railroad was the final name for a railroad system connecting New York state with Providence, Rhode Island, Boston, Massachusetts and other parts of New England before its 1898 lease by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. ... Interstate 90 is the longest interstate highway in the United States. ... The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad (AAR reporting mark NH) was a railroad that operated in the northeast United States. ... The MBTA Commuter Rail is the regional rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. ... View of Boston from the Red Line The Red Line is the newest of the MBTA rapid transit lines in the Boston, Massachusetts area. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1999 is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

• West Fourth Street Bridge 1958 (formerly Dover Street, with an older bridge)
• South Boston Bypass Road
• New York and New England Railroad on a long diagonal bridge, now used by the MBTA Commuter Rail and trains to the South Boston Freight Terminal - this bridge passed under the next two
• Southampton Street (formerly Swett Street)
• Massachusetts Avenue (formerly East Chester Park)