https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf en-us 2023-10-16 17:49:16 UTC 2023-10-22 22:40:00 UTC hello@padlet.com ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2749327153 The first subway system was located in the Western Hemisphere which was in Boston, cool right ⁉️ Then Thomas Williams started a ferry service between the North End and Charlestown. In the Late 1700s, stagecoach connected between Boston and Cambridge]]> 2023-10-16 17:54:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2749327153 ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2754724947 Boston had one of the largest street railway operations in the U.S with 8k+ horses. 🐎 🐎 🐎 The electric powered streetcars were pollutions free. 🤩  They were also faster 💨 with 10-15 miles per hour vs. 5 - 6 per hour. They also held more people per trip]]> 2023-10-19 14:43:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2754724947 ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2754736355 The first subway is created by the Rapid Transit COmmission, which the governor and Bostons mayor appointed in 1191 which I got from Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The subway started in Tremont Street in Wednesday, September 1, 1897]]> 2023-10-19 14:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2754736355 ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755294407 After a groundbreaking ceremony 😭 on Jan. 20, 1899, the company built 7 miles of olive green elevated track, 10 rises station and two large multi-level terminals. The company also got 150 cars 🚘 ]]> 2023-10-19 23:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755294407 ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755389038 The system was considered a political subdivision of the Commonwealth, and served the 14 cities and towns that were considered to be metro Boston: Arlington, Belmont, Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Malden, Medford, Milton, Newton, Revere, Somerville, and Watertown.]]> 2023-10-20 00:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755389038 ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755392568 Almost immediately after its inception, the MBTA applied for Federal Funding to modernize 10 mass transit stations: Copley, Maverick, Prudential, Orient Heights, Government Center/Blue and Green Lines, Fields Corner, Columbia, Kenmore, Haymarket, and Arlington]]> 2023-10-20 00:55:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755392568 ssurpris29_ https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755433001 By 2009, the MBTA was put under the Massachusetts Department of Transportation MassDOT umbrella. But, in the past 10 years, the stories of the troubled MBTA and its T have continued to unfold, much of which can be brought back to its age, its debt, its backlog of repairs, and the population growth of the region it services]]> 2023-10-20 01:23:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ssurpris29_/8axvtiebsnecu4rf/wish/2755433001