Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...discontinuing trolley traffic between Central Square and Harvard Square, City Engineer Edgar Davis and state engineers decided that any attempt to salvage the track would be wasted effort. Davis explains that the roadbed is fortunately low along Massachusetts Avenue, and for that reason two and one-half inches of tar can be applied directly on top of the track. Rather than harming the paving job, the track, instead, adds strength to the roadbed. Work will continue today and probably tomorrow, with traffic limited on Plympton, Dunster, Holyoke, and Lindon streets, and Massachusetts Avenue during most of the remaining construction...
Buses now running between Central and Harvard squares will be replaced with trolley buses as soon as overhead wiring operations are completed, probably late next week. Recent early morning strollers have probably noticed this phase of operation "rotary" now on Massachusetts Avenue near Lamont. Waiting until traffic subsides, two large trucks--replete with elevators--aid a squad of about eight men in stringing current and support wires along the length of the Avenue...
...Davis has shown considerable intelligence in ordering numerous changes. Although he has climbed out on the proverbial limb in terming the experiment a success, he definitely has not blinded himself to other improvements. Merely as a matter of comfort, the MTA was requested to raise the level of the trolley tracks on the Coop side of the kiosk, thereby removing the hollow that was turned into a sea of mud and water almost every rainstorm. Davis, furthermore, is well aware of the student's plight in crossing Cambridge Street. He would like to see as topflight installed at that point...
Mass. Avenue's cobblestones will disappear, along with the tracks of the trolley line replaced last year by busses. The Avenue's corrugated surface has rocked vehicles for over 30 years; the new topping of bituminous concrete will result in smoother riding...
They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...