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A Silver Line bus at East Berkeley Street stop, the former location of Dover station, in 2011. Since the Southwest Corridor was located somewhat further to the west than the elevated had been, away from neighborhood centers like Dudley and Egleston Squares, the MBTA promised that a branch of the light rail Green Line would be built to provide continued rapid transit service to those areas.
A Silver Line bus at the station in 2024. Chinatown station has two side platforms serving the two tracks of the Washington Street Tunnel.As with Downtown Crossing and State, the platforms are offset; the northbound platform runs north from Essex Street to Hayward Place, while the southbound platform runs south from Boylston Street (opposite Essex) to Lagrange Street.
The Atlantic Avenue Elevated was an elevated railway around the east side of Downtown Boston, Massachusetts, providing a second route for the Boston Elevated Railway's Main Line Elevated (now the MBTA's Orange Line) around the Washington Street tunnel. It was in use from 1901 to 1938, when it was closed due to low ridership, later being demolished.
The Washington Street Tunnel carrying the Main Line Elevated (later the Orange Line) opened on November 30, 1908. [12] Stations on the tunnel were built in pairs with different names and separate entrances, an appeasement to merchants on the street who desired maximal pedestrian traffic.
[10] [11] Later stations on the East Boston Tunnel and Washington Street Tunnel incorporated this criticism into their more modest headhouses. [10] On June 10, 1901, Main Line Elevated trains began using the through tracks through the Tremont Street Subway, while streetcars continued using the Brattle Loop. [1]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration advanced a key $6.88 billion grant to help build a long-delayed new railway tunnel between New York City and New Jersey, which would be the largest ...
Gilmor Street Tunnel; Wilson Street Tunnel; John Street Tunnel; Baltimore Harbor Tunnel, twin tunnels, Interstate 895 under Patapsco River, Baltimore; Borden Tunnel, abandoned rail tunnel, 1911, 957 feet long, Western Maryland Railway north of Frostburg, now part of Great Allegheny Passage rail trail
The North–South Rail Link (NSRL) is a proposed railway tunnel which would link the two halves of the MBTA Commuter Rail system between North Station and South Station under downtown Boston. It was originally proposed to run deep beneath the Central Artery , passing under Aquarium station at a depth of 130 feet (40 m). [ 61 ]