Report of the Transit Department for the Year Ending December 31, 1928 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Report of the Transit Department for the Year Ending December 31, 1928 During 1928 two additional sections Of the Dorchester Rapid 'transit were completed and on September 1 the railway company commenced Operation Of the rapid transit line from the Fields Corner Station to Ashmont Station, the Dorchester terminal Of the third rail service. The length Of the rapid transit service from Harvard Square in Cambridge to the Ashmont Station in the Dorchester district of Boston is a little more than nine miles, the service is frequent, and the running time, including stops at all stations, is twenty-five minutes. The stations in the City Of Boston are Park Street Under, Washington, South Station Under, Broadway, Andrew Square, Columbia Road, Savin Hill, Fields Corner, Shawmut and Ashmont. An overpass furnishing convenient access to the Columbia Road Station to passengers from Crescent avenue is now under construction. Other work in connection with the opening Of this line has called for the construction Of buildings over the station entrances at Shawmut and Ashmont, and their equipment. In order to insure greater safety for railway and vehicular traffic it was necessary to relocate the easterly abutment Of the Geneva Avenue Bridge. This work had to be done in a very limited space without interfering with railway traffic, trolley and third rail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.