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  2. Blue Line (MBTA) - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Big Dig - Wikipedia

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    Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston. Before the Big Dig, the only access to the airport from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels. Traffic on the major highways from west of Boston—the Massachusetts Turnpike and Storrow Drive—mostly traveled on portions of the Central Artery to reach these ...

  4. Red Blue Connector - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. State station - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Boston tunnel floods with 130,000 gallons of water due to ...

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    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.

  7. History of the MBTA - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Sumner Tunnel - Wikipedia

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    The Sumner Tunnel is a road tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It carries traffic under Boston Harbor in one direction, from Logan International Airport and Route 1A in East Boston . The tunnel originally deposited traffic at the west side of the North End , but with the completion of the Big Dig , it was modified to have two exits.

  9. This Family Drives 350 Miles For What Could Be A Common ...

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    Toby Fischer lives in South Dakota, where just 27 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine -- a medication that blunts the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and opioid painkillers. A Huffington Post analysis of government data found nearly half of all counties in America don't have such a certified physician. So every month, Fischer and his mother drive to Colorado to pick up their ...