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The MASCO TMA operates six commuter shuttles for the use of Longwood Medical Area employees and students [28] run by the MASCO TMA for the Longwood Medical Area. The MASCO M2 shuttle between Harvard Square and the LMA via Massachusetts Avenue is available for public use, though tickets or cash card must be purchased in advance. [29]
The EZRide shuttle is a bus service run by the Charles River Transportation Management Association, a nonprofit organization, under contract to Academy. It operates from North Station in Boston, Massachusetts to Fort Washington / Cambridgeport via Lechmere , Kendall Square , and University Park at MIT , serving over 25 identified stops.
The Charles River (Massachusett: Quinobequin), sometimes called the River Charles or simply the Charles, is an 80-mile-long (129 km) river in eastern Massachusetts.It flows northeast from Hopkinton to Boston along a highly meandering route, that doubles back on itself several times and travels through 23 cities and towns before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. [1]
(Old) Charles River Dam Bridge: Route 28 (Charles River Dam Rd) 1910 25 meters (82 ft) [1] The Boston Museum of Science is located on this bridge Longfellow Bridge: Route 3 (Main St/Cambridge St) MBTA Red Line: 1907
The 1978 Charles River Dam, located behind the TD Garden, controls the water level in the river basin.An earlier dam (see Charles River Dam Bridge), located beneath the Museum of Science, was completed in 1910 with the purpose of creating a fresh water river basin and riverfront park in Boston and Cambridge.
The Red Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as part of the MBTA subway system. The line runs south and east underground from Alewife station in North Cambridge through Somerville and Cambridge, surfacing to cross the Longfellow Bridge then returning to tunnels under Downtown Boston.
MBTA 1131 departing with a Haverhill service. Although rail bridges across the Charles River near the present location of North Station have existed since the Boston and Lowell Railroad opened in 1835, the current bridges date from 1931, when the navigable channel of the Charles River was shifted 300 feet to the north of its former route to allow the platforms at North Station to be extended ...
The Charles River parkways were laid out in concept in a plan developed by landscape architect Charles Eliot for the Metropolitan Parks Commission (MPC, predecessor to the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), now the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, or DCR). Land acquisition for the parks lining the Charles began in ...