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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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civic benefit.The relief achieved bythe first trolley car removals had beenlost in the steady growth of the cityand the street traffic in its heart. Thetrolley tracks were not removed fromWashington Street. For a number ofyears after the completion of therapid-transit tunnel under the impor-tant thoroughfare a few surface linesretained their routes within it. Re-cently these too have gone and thetracks it ?iolds stand unused. Nor isit likely that even if they are per-mitted to remain for any length oftime they will ever come into regularusage again. I have made a point of this be- cause it represents an essential dif-ference in the rapid-transit plan forBoston as compared with those ofNew York or Philadelphia or Chi-cago. In these other cities elevatedor subway rapid-transit lines haveeither supplemented or competedwith the existing surface-car routes.In Boston they have supplantedthem. Which is a distinction witha large difference. The Boston planin its working out comes nearer rep-
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Lines of the Boston Elevated Railway-Company resenting that of London than thatof any other American city. Which,inasmuch as Boston closely re-sembles London in many, many ways,may be set down as being at leastmost consistent. Enclosed Transfer Points Solve the Problem of Distribution The construction of the Washing-ton Street tunnel also involved thetransformation of Dudley Streetand Sullivan Square from exclusive eltvatcd railway terminals into acombination of terminal and throughstation. In other words, the elevatedshot out its long metallic arms southbeyond Dudley Street a good twomiles to Forest Hills and north overmarshy meadows from SullivanSquare to ancient Everett. At eachof these new terminals additionalfocal and transfer points were cre-ated and long-distance trolley opera-tion curtailed, with great economyand efficiency. Simi-larly two other sub-ways have been cre-ated in and throughthe heart of old Bos-ton—one from ScollaySquare under the har-bor to East Bostonand carry

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