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A streetcar at Atlantic Avenue (now Aquarium) station in 1906. The East Boston Tunnel under Boston Harbor was the first North American subway tunnel to run beneath a body of water when it opened in 1904, [2] and the second underwater vehicular tunnel of significant length built in the United States.
An extension of the East Boston Tunnel to Charles Street was considered in a 1924 study of Charles station. [14] A 1926 proposal to convert the Tremont Street subway and connecting streetcar lines into a pair of rapid transit trunk lines called for the East Boston Tunnel to be extended south to Park Street station, with through service running ...
The East Boston Tunnel became the Blue Line because it runs under Boston Harbor, and the Cambridge-Dorchester Tunnel became the Red Line because its northernmost terminus was then at Harvard University, whose school color is crimson. According to Chermayeff, the Main Line El "ended up being orange for no particular reason beyond color balance."
This was the first elevated railway and the first rapid transit line in Boston, three years before the first underground line of the New York City Subway, but some 33 years after the first elevated railway in New York. In 1904, the next line to open was the East Boston Tunnel, a streetcar tunnel under Boston Harbor to East Boston.
The East Boston Tunnel station was originally known as Devonshire after the street which the Old State House is located on. The station is the only remaining station on the tunnel opened in 1904. The East Boston Tunnel was originally planned to be operated with high-floor metro rolling stock and connected to the then-planned Cambridge Elevated ...
The Boston tunnel was filled with 130,000 gallons of stormwater runoff this week after a torrential downpour led officials to close the historic city's roadways.
Pages in category "Tunnels in Boston" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... East Boston Tunnel; F. Fort Point Channel tunnel; H. Haymarket ...
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