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Boston-area streetcar lines remaining in 1940 (in green), plotted against a map of the BERy's subway and elevated lines (in purple). The shade of green for each line denotes how long the line lasted after this; the lightest-green lines were abandoned in 1945 or earlier, the second-lightest lines were abandoned from 1946 to 1950, the second-darkest lines were abandoned from 1951 to 1969, and ...
Boston: Horse 1856 ? Electric Portion (MBTA Green Line) upgraded to light rail in the 1970s January 1, 1889 [94] See Boston-area streetcar lines. The surviving portions are the Mattapan Line and the MBTA Green Line. See also: Category:Streetcars in the Boston area. Brockton: Horse July 26, 1881 ? Electric September 5, 1890 July 11, 1937
Pages in category "Streetcars in the Boston area" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
The first route of the Boston trackless trolley system was opened by BERy, on April 11, 1936. It was route 77 (later 69), Harvard – Lechmere via Cambridge Street. Trackless trolleys ran from Harvard station, but only to the west and north, not east to Lechmere after 1963. Trackless trolley service to these routes ended in March of 2022, and ...
All were formerly streetcar routes. Service was converted to bus on the 7, 9, and 10 in 1953; they were some of the last Boston-area streetcar lines to be bustituted, and the #9 was one of the last two lines (the other being the #43, which was bustituted in 1961) to serve the Pleasant Street incline. Streetcars last ran on the #11 in 1929.
A route 55 bus on Ipswich Street in 2017. The original bus route that replaced the Aududon Road shuttle followed largely the same route; instead of reversing at Audubon Road, it looped on Kilmarnock Street, Queensbury Street, and Jersey Street through a residential area. [20] It was assigned route number 55 in 1941. [21]
The two Chelsea–Revere Beach routes were extended to Maverick, with Chelsea–Boston bus service discontinued. [13] Chelsea–Lynn service was jointly operated by the two companies for a short period, but soon discontinued in favor of a transfer between the Boston–Lynn bus route and BERy streetcar service on Revere Street.
The Middlesex and Boston Street Railway (M&B) was a streetcar and later bus company in the area west of Boston. Streetcars last ran in 1930, and in 1972, the company's operations were merged into the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA).