That was a deft move, offsetting the trolley line from Seaver Street alongside Franklin Park. Now instead of having the trolleys run in the street or unprotected median on Columbus and Blue Hill Avenues the city should have built a protected median reservation instead. Maybe then we would have Green Line trolleys from Park Street to Mattapan instead of those Silver Line busses!
Hi Foster and MBTA Dog, thanks for the video and the wonderful catchy music! Interesting route between Dudley Square and Jamaica Plain. I didn't know it was known as simply Jamaica back then. Where was the Jamaica Loop? Was it the same loop as today's Heath Street Loop? Or was it at the Arborway terminus of the Green Line E Branch? Thanks a million 😊
I wish I could live at a time where everything hadn't yet been sacrificed for the comfort and convenience of motorists but without the bigotries and prejudices that everyone took for granted. To board a mint condition PCC trolley after a day at the beach at City Point and ride it as it trundles toward Dudley Square station. 😊
We would still have this line today had the Riverside Branch been planned properly with more trolleys procured to operate it, even if second hand from other transit agencies/companies.
I don't remember Cummins Highway as that curvy; I thought it was mostly straight. But the Forest Hills and Hyde Park areas would be so much nicer had the MTA\MBTA kept the streetcar trolleys. When given a choice between a bus and a trolley, give me the trolley every time!
I was disgusted when I saw the clip where the MTA replaced the trolleys with diesel busses! 😠😡👿🤬 And then to be treated to the beautiful 😍 winter scene of Roosevelt Circle and the Fellsway West parkway before it was absolutely OBLITERATED for Route 93! 😠😡👿🤬 I used to work as an engineer for the Mass. Highway Department 1985-1999 so I know just how ugly the area is today! I think it was a mistake to bring the highways into the city; ideally they should have terminated at Route 128 which then should have been developed as a quadruple freeway like the 401 expressway in Toronto Ontario. Getting into the city would then be handled by improved regional rail and improved and expanded rapid transit.
The MTA missed an opportunity to run a subway branch over to Chelsea when it opened the East Boston Subway connector to and extension on the Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad. Not extending that into Lynn was another lost opportunity. ☹️😞 And I wish the streetcar trolleys could have remained. 😢 People hate ugly, bouncy, jittery, smelly busses.
El camino de varias décadas para eliminar la segregación escolar. El 12 de septiembre de 1974, la policía se situó fuera de las escuelas de Boston mientras los estudiantes negros y blancos eran transportados en autobús por primera vez, de un barrio a otro, cumpliendo con la orden de un tribunal federal de eliminar la segregación. El transporte escolar entre los barrios fue recibido con una violencia estremecedora: enojados manifestantes blancos les arrojaron piedras a los autobuses que transportaban estudiantes negros y les lanzaron epítetos raciales a los alumnos al entrar a sus nuevas escuelas. El caos y los disturbios raciales aumentarían y continuarían durante años. Utilizando relatos de testigos, entrevistas grabadas e imágenes de las noticias no vistas hacía décadas, The Busing Battleground revela en detalle el esfuerzo volátil por terminar con la segregación escolar y la larga lucha por conseguir equidad educativa que precedió a esta crisis. También ilustra cómo se libraron, tanto en el Norte como en el Sur, las batallas por los derechos civiles y examina esta saga desde la dimensión de clase; explorando cómo los barrios a los que más afectó la orden judicial fueron los más pobres de la ciudad.
I really wish this was still the status quo... I really hate driving, i'm stressed out all the time and I'd gladly would love to live in a time or area where these things were everywhere.
I don't drive. Never have. I don't even have a driver's license. I took a driving class once and even drove around with an instructor for a while but for some reason it just never clicked with me. It was sorta stressful. I much prefer taking the train, biking, or walking. If I do need a car to get somewhere I just call Uber. People say it's un-American and that I should live in Europe where walking is the norm in places like The Netherlands and Portugal. Do you think that's odd?
That's a myth. Then, as now, people drove cars because it was more comfortable and convenient. Street cars went away because very few people wanted to ride them when they had better alternatives.
The 'A' line rails were in place until the late 1990s, I believe. They made the road very dangerous with lots of pot holes and the rail sticking up high in various places. They were also slippery when wet and about the same spread as car wheels, so people would slide on them and crash into each other.
In case anyone is interested, the first piece of music they're playing is what Stevie Wayne (Adrienne Barbeau) plays in her radio station in a scene from The Fog. I thought it sounded familiar.
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Bus Manufacture is New Flyer Model: D40LF Condition: Retired Bus Route: 111 Destination: Haymarket Bus No. 0650 Not in the line for a overhaul since retirement 0600-0754 Bus Uses a Cummins ISL Engine
I like the shot at the end with the boeings leaving government center westbound and going around the sharp curve. I always loved government center’s set up and alignment on the upper green line level. Also, 3480 was coupled with 3485 and the trailing car was one of the two used for the final revenue boeing lrv run on 03/16/07. Thought that was kinda cool!!
Alex Haley cleaned up the antisemitism of Malcolm in the autobiography. In fact it was something the Nation of Islam and the American Nazi Party had in common
