https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh en-us 2023-10-16 17:37:23 UTC 2023-10-17 13:49:24 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f68a.png rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2749314879 The first ever subway system in Western hemisphere was in Boston.
A man named Thomas Williams started a ferry service between the north end and Charlestown. By the late 1700s stagecoach connected Boston and Cambridge.


]]> 2023-10-16 17:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2749314879 rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2749331584 By now Boston had one of the largest street railway operations in the U.S. Everyone loved the new cars quote “ Electric powered streetcars, by contrast, were pollution free.”


]]> 2023-10-16 17:57:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2749331584 rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750777284 After people had enough of the packed trains the city formed a rapid transit system. They had created 4 elevated streetcar lines and a tunnel for streetcars to travel through. As Boston entered the 20th century more subways and railway lines emerged.

]]> 2023-10-17 13:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750777284 rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750806644 On January 20th 1899 the railway company of Boston created 7 miles long of green track, 10 different stations and two terminals.
They also later acquired 150 more cars. According to the city of Boston after these adjustments 75% of people traveling in and out of downtown used this.]]> 2023-10-17 13:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750806644 rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750819134 The MTA took over the EL in 1947 absorbing all railway systems in Massachusetts. But this came with problems because many people got tired of looking at this overground tracks and didn’t like the look of these dirty tracks..]]> 2023-10-17 13:41:04 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750819134 rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750826483 The MBTA expanded to the Newton Highlands branch of Boston( Todays green line branch). Over years the MBTA grew more and more because the amount of traffic in Boston having a larger demand on trains.]]> 2023-10-17 13:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750826483 rbrowne29_ https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750836004 As the years came by more and more people had cars and oil was harder to obtain which caused gas harder to get demanding the need for trains. By 2009 the trains were put back into debt and from this debt the trains had a growth of problems. The system has adjusted but there has still been problems most recent as in the Red Line derailment in June 2019.]]> 2023-10-17 13:49:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rbrowne29_/cqlkask1amgd1ejh/wish/2750836004