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Speakers told members of the Metropolitan Highway System Advisory Board—which advises the MTA on land sales—that the loss of the CSX railyard, the only rail connection near Boston’s port, would cause a spike in truck traffic on the Boston area’s already-crowded highways...
Ginger Esty, a member of the Framingham Board of Selectmen, said she believed the recent cost overruns of the Big Dig have led the MTA and the Massachusetts Port Authority to try to sell any of their assets that they...
...operating in Asia that accept paying passengers, which charge $70-$130 per day per person. Voyages range in duration from a 10-day short hop to an epic 114 days (the latter being Houston to Houston on the Egon Oldendorff line, via the Suez Canal, with Jakarta the easternmost port). All the lines have age limits for passengers, ranging from 70 to 80 years; none offer doctors on board...
PORTSIDE Voyagers who get shore leave in Jakarta should make a few hours for Sunda Kelapa, the port of old Batavia and the nearby Museum Bahari, Indonesia's excellent maritime museum. Although the 800-year-old port has been eclipsed by the modern port at Tanjung Priok, high-riding Bugis boats from South Sulawesi province, one of the world's last seagoing schooner fleets, still call regularly...
...Near the entrance to the old port is the Museum Bahari, housed in a 17th century godown. Its elegantly proportioned halls that once stored spices now display antique ships from all over the archipelago, such as a sleek kora kora war boat from the Maluku Islands, and finely detailed models of modern freighters. In the market around the museum, visiting sailors stock up on rope, rain gear and pirated VCDs...