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A route 75 bus on the upper level of the bus tunnel. Immediately west of the subway platforms is the 1,380-foot (420 m)-long Harvard bus tunnel, used by MBTA buses and formerly trackless trolleys. [7] Like the Red Line, it is split into two stacked tunnel levels; the northbound level is above and slightly east of the southbound level.
The current Red Line is shown in red, with black headhouse locations. The former alignment and stations are shown in pink, with gray headhouse locations. Note: this map is intentionally simplified to serve as an illustration. The multiple levels of the Harvard stations and the bus tunnel are not shown, nor is the track layout.
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.
New York City Subway tunnels: Fort George Tunnel, IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line (1 train), 2 miles of rock tunnel from 157th Street to Dyckman Street, the second-longest two-track tunnel in the country (after the Hoosac Tunnel) when completed in 1906. 14th Street Tunnel, BMT Canarsie Line (L train) under East River between Manhattan and ...
Opened in September 1897, the four-track-wide segment of the Green Line tunnel between Park Street and Boylston stations was the first subway in the United States, and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. The downtown portions of what are now the Green, Orange, Blue, and Red line tunnels were all in service by 1912.
The tunnel also allows covered access between the subway and the buses. At the center of the Square is the old Harvard Square Subway Kiosk, which held a newsstand Out of Town News until its close in 2020. A public motion art installation, Lumen Eclipse, shows monthly exhibitions of local, national, and international artists.
The Cambridge subway, also known as the Cambridge tunnel, or later the Cambridge–Dorchester line, was the heavy-rail rapid-transit line between Park Street Under in Boston and Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that became the backbone of the MBTA Red Line.
[3] [4]: 26 It was only the third "urban trolleybus subway" (tunnel with stations) in the world, after the Harvard bus tunnel and the Downtown Seattle Transit Tunnel (in which trolleybus service ended in 2005). [53] Original plans called for a single South Boston route running to City Point via D Street, Broadway, Summer Street, and E 1st Street.