The Early Development of the Urban Ring Project (MBTA)
- Date Range
- January 1, 1870 – January 1, 1900
- Title
- The Early Development of the Urban Ring Project (MBTA)
- What occurred
- Throughout Boston, there were streetcars to help commuters get from point A to point B easier than the normal walking. Real estate speculators picked up on the usefulness of this and bought up land and secured funding to extend these lines outside of Boston. In fact, Henry Whitney first made the West End line going to Brookline only to use it for promoting his Beacon street developments. On the other hand, tradition helped to push the streetcars further along because every Sunday Thousands of Boston citizens would travel to the outskirts of the city to barely settled land to spend time at the cemeteries or in the parks which made it these trains that are far-reaching profitable.
- Location
- 1324 Beacon Street Brookline, MA 02446
- Image Citation
- Old photos of MBTA green line: Boston architecture, travel spot, Railroad Pictures. Pinterest. (n.d.). Retrieved November 16, 2021, from https://www.pinterest.com/pin/455004368574052532/. Warner, Sam Bass, and Sam Bass WARNER. Streetcar Suburbs : The Process of Growth in Boston, 1870-1900, Second Edition, Harvard University Press, 1978. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/union/detail.action?docID=3300746. Created from union on 2021-11-14 21:48:27.
- Student name(s)
- andrew bassuk