Word: subways
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...construction of the subway more than half a million cubic yards of material have been excavated. In the concrete construction 200,000 cubic yards of cement, 350,000 tons of crushed stone, and 7,000 tons of steel have been used between the bridge and the Murray street yards. The largest number of men employed on the work at any one time was 4,000, the average force being about...
Work on the three Cambridge divisions of the subway was completed on January 21 and it now it only remains to finish the stations and completed on the equipment, such as laying the conduits for the third rail system. On January 23 a party with 11 automobiles went through the entire length of the subway from the West Boston bridge to the Murray street yards of the Elevated Company beyond Harvard square. The floors of the two tubes have been cleared and are now ready for the tracks. These will be laid at once and it is hoped that...
...Kendall, Central, and Harvard squares. The first of these will be the largest, with eight sets of stairs from the street to the tracks. All three stations will be free transfer points from surface cars. Except for a few hundred feet to the west of Harvard square, the subway will consist of two tubes 16 feet high and 25 feet broad, situated on different levels as in the case of the Washington street tunnel, the out bound track to be the higher...
...Cambridge route has several features which none of the Boston subways posses. The most notable among them is a series of emergency exits. These are provided at every 1000 feet and furnish an easy way for people to find their way to the street in the case of emergency. Each of them is also to be used for ventilating purposes. Another innovation in subway construction is a system of underground sidewalks connected with the tunnel but outside the entrance gates at the Central square station. These sidewalks extend for about 350 feet on each side of the station. At Harvard...
...just north of the Boylston Street Bridge. This is planned to accommodate the crowds on the days of football games in the Stadium. The tracks leading to and from this platform, which will be a covered structure about 300 feet long, will connect with the main line of the subway as it emerges from underground at Brattle square. It is possible that this platform will be ready for use by the time of the Yale game next year...