Word: subways
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Work on the subway from Cambridge to Boston has not yet been begun but the plans have been pretty thoroughly laid out. At the Cambridge end there will be two inclines, one on Massachusetts avenue near the common, and the other on Mount Auburn street west of Brattle square. Cars from out of town will enter at these two points and join under Harvard square. Just before arriving at the new Cambridge Bridge, below the Harvard Bridge, they will come to the surface and cross the bridge in a reservation in the centre at a level with the other traffic...
Preliminary work has been started on the proposed subway from Harvard square to Boston, which was authorized last winter by a favorable vote in the Cambridge municipal elections and a subsequent act of the Massachusetts Legislature. Superficial plans for a two track subway, the rails of which will be approximately 30 feet below the street level, have been drawn by the Boston Elevated Railroad Company and have been accepted by the City of Cambridge and by the Boston Transit Commission. Along the route, borings have been made to ascertain the nature of the ground and the strength of the building...
Only two tracks will be laid, making it impossible to run both local and express trains as is done in the New York subway. No definite conclusion has been reached as to the location of intermediate stations, but there will be as few as possible in order to insure rapid transit...
...Railroad Company possessed by the original charter under which it was incorporated, to build an elevated structure in Massachusetts avenue, Main, River, Bridge and Cambridge streets and Webster avenue, has been annulled by this new act, excepting for such sections as may be necessary to connect the Massachusetts avenue subway with the Boston elevated system...
Nothing will be attempted on the other Cambridge subway, authorized by the same act, which will go by way of Cambridge street to the Charles River Dam, until the first one is near completion. The building of the Cambridge street route may be postponed for 10 years. At the expiration of that period the city will have the right to build this subway, and after a 20-year period the right of purchasing all the subways...