Word: traffics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...turn in general business affairs occurred during the week. Railway traffic continued to be unusually heavy, merchants reported large sales while their customers talked of " how high everything is"; the basic industries showed depression for the most part...
...chief effort will be made to eliminate congestion on Boylston Street, the main thoroughfare between Harvard Square and the Stadium. After 12 o'clock noon tomorrow Harvard Square and Boylston Street will be closed to automobile traffic. Side streets will be roped off and special policemen will be stationed at every intersection to enable the thousands going to the Stadium to move freely along Boylston Street. To eliminate further the crowding on this street, the officials of the Boston Elevated Railway have announced that after 12.30 o'clock tomorrow all subway trains from Boston will carry passengers through Harvard Square...
...regard to automobile traffic, an important new regulation will go into force this year. The two main automobile bridges connecting Boston and Cambridge, the Cottage Farms Bridge, and the new temporary bridge, will be made one way toward Cambridge before the game, and toward Boston after it. The Allston Bridge, however, will be open for traffic in both directions...
Automobile traffic will be handled as follows...
After 12 o'clock noon, Harvard Square from Quincy to Brattle Streets, Boylston Street, Cambridge, the Anderson Bridge and North Harvard Street, Brighton, will be closed to automobile traffic as far as Western Avenue, Brighton. The only automobile gates admitting to Soldiers Field will be on the Metropolitan Parkway at the southwest corner of the field. These may be reached from Boston by Commonwealth Avenue to Brighton Avenue to Union Square, Allston, to North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Fields Cars coming from Watertown and Waltham should come via North Beacon Street to Everett Street to Soldiers Field...