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The former ICA building located at 951/955 Boylston Street, now occupied by the Boston Architectural College. The Institute of Contemporary Art was founded as the Boston Museum of Modern Art in 1936 with offices rented at 114 State Street with gallery space provided by the Fogg Museum and the Busch–Reisinger Museum at Harvard University. [2]
Wu's August 2020 proposal for a Boston Green New Deal incorporated a call for Boston to pursue fare-free public transportation. [4] Crediting Councilwoman Wu as a leader on free public transit, in January 2021, the editorial board of The Boston Globe endorsed the idea of making Boston's buses fare-free. [5]
They are narrower at the ends, and wider under a fare lobby near the west end of the station. [3] The primary entrance to the station is from Massachusetts Avenue; a side exit leads from the lobby to Newbury Street. [3] The lobby is inside the basement level of the 360 Newbury Street building. [4] MBTA bus routes 1 and 55 stop near the station. [5]
The MBTA is launching free rides to help people get to Boston to watch Game 2 of the Celtics-Mavericks series on Sunday.. The MBTA will running a free Haverhill service on the Commuter Rail on ...
The CharlieCard is a contactless smart card used for fare payment for transportation in the Boston area.It is the primary payment method for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and several regional public transport systems in the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
South Station (also signed as South Station Under) is a transfer station on the MBTA rapid transit Red Line and bus rapid transit Silver Line, located at Summer Street and Atlantic Avenue in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It is a part of the complex of the same name, the second busiest transportation center in New England. [4]
Shortly after the steam locomotive became practical for mass transportation, [6] the private Boston and Lowell Railroad was chartered in 1830. [7] The rail, which opened in 1835, [6] connected Boston to Lowell, [8] a major northerly mill town in northeast Massachusetts' Merrimack Valley, [9] via one of the oldest railroads in North America.
The Silver Line followed largely the same route between Dudley Square and Downtown Boston as route 49; the primary change was the consolidation of stops. [3] Although the MBTA considered other stop locations, most of the final stops were at existing route 49 stops. [7]: 3.3 The conversion to the Silver Line occurred in several steps.