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Private investors planed above ground trollies to provide transportation to an alternative for slower overworked horses. By doing this, this allowed the private company’s to lower fares  because the trolleys were faster and have a higher capacity of passengers. There were manny of these company’s that provided public transportation but EL was the biggest.

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1897 The Hemisphere’s First Subway Emerges:

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1897 The Hemisphere’s First Subway Emerges:

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The first trolly’s left braintree and troiles were very popular with the public and because of this the trioly’s got alot of attenion from “The Boston Globe”. Although the new trolleys were effect they were a eye sore and noisy. The Governor of Massachusetts and Mayor of Boston recommended El to make all but four lines below ground.

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EL created more train routes than here are currently connecting many neighborhoods that previously couldn’t interact. EL provided fifty two different trolly lines compared to the the four lines today (not including the commenter rail an the silver line). 75% percent of people at the time took trioly’s or walked to work, now 35% use trains to get to work.

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EL was taken over by the MTA(Metropolitan Transit Authority). The MTA put sections underground and had to aboundon on many routes due to founding. Out of the fifty two lines that there were with EL there correctly are four lines.

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The MBTA started demolishing the remaining EL tracks, the project started in 1960 and the last tracks were removed in 2004. The MBTA replaced some the above ground tracks with underground tracks and combined all train companies to make the a united system for transportation, the MBTA. All the other routes were lost.

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The MBTA struggled financially for instance in 1970 train fares rose and in 1980 the trains shut down for a day. Most of the MBTA’s debt comes from the “big dig”. Although the MBTA has lots of debt the MBTA has plans for new trains and more routes.