Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...understood that the resumption of service will start with the early morning schedule. The re-opening of the bridge will greatly facilitate the handling of the crowds on Saturday, and, with the added service via Western avenue, will enable the street railway company to handle the traffic with some degree of celerity...
...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. At the Boston end of the bridge instead of descending like the bridge road-way to the level of Charles street the tracks in the reservation will keep a high level passing above Charles and West Cedar streets and then veering to the right will run in a subway under...
...bridge to replace the present one on Boylston street, near Soldiers Field, which connects Cambridge with Brighton. The new bridge will be a temporary structure, however, below the site of the permanent bridge, which will probably be built shortly. The object of the new bridge is to afford a traffic way during the building of the permanent bridge in the place of the present inadequate structure...
...general construction plans for the Charles river dam. The contract has been awarded and work was begun last week. The dam will be erected a short distance below the Craigie or East Cambridge bridge, and the latter will be torn down and a temporary bridge constructed to take its traffic. The cost of the dam, which will not be completed for three years, will be about $2,500,000, or rather less than the original estimate. Unlimited appropriations have been voted by the state legislature and the work is being hurried as much as possible...
...night. James R. Murphy, the lawyer for those opposed to the parkway, argued that the hearing could not be called final, because, according to statute, the final hearing could only be the called after the plans had been advertised for thirty-days. He introduced witnesses to show that the traffic on De Wolfe street was not large enough to call for widening the street. Objections were made to the proposed changes on the ground that a wider street would so encroach on the residences on De Wolfe street as to force the present tenants to move...