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Copley Station
Copley station is an underground light rail station on the MBTA Green Line (MBTA), Green Line, located in the Back Bay, Boston, Back Bay section of Boston, Massachusetts. Located in and named after Copley Square, the station has entrances and exits along Boylston Street and Dartmouth Street. Copley station opened in 1914 as part of the Boylston Street subway. The station is accessibility, accessible following extensive station renovation completed in 2011. The renovation project was subject to a significant court case regarding the project's effects on the Old South Church. Station layout Copley station has two side platforms. The platforms are offset, with the outbound platform further east to avoid the Old South Church. Due to the offset platforms, there is no direct connection between the inbound and outbound platforms; passengers must exit the station and cross Boylston Street or travel one stop further inbound to Arlington station (MBTA), Arlington station to change direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boylston Street
Boylston Street is a major east–west thoroughfare in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and its western suburbs. The street begins in Boston's Chinatown, Boston, Chinatown neighborhood, forms the southern border of the Public Garden (Boston), Boston Public Garden and Boston Common, runs through Back Bay, Boston, Back Bay and Boston's Fenway-Kenmore, Fenway neighborhood, merges into Brookline Ave and then Washington Street, emerging again contiguous with Massachusetts Route 9, Route 9 out to where it crosses Massachusetts Route 128, Route 128, after which it becomes Worcester Street. Name As early as 1722, Boylston Street, then a short road on the outskirts of the town of Boston, was known as Frogg Lane or Frog Lane. It was later renamed for Ward Nicholas Boylston (1747–1828),Bentinck-Smith, William"Nicholas Boylston and His Harvard Chair" ''Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society'', Third Series, Vol. 93, (1981), pp. 17-39 a philanthropist and benefactor of H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MBTA Bus
The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates List of MBTA bus routes, 152 bus routes in the Greater Boston area. The MBTA has a policy objective to provide transit service within walking distance (defined as ) for all residents living in areas with population densities greater than within the MBTA's service district. Much of this service is provided by bus. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of . Most MBTA bus routes are local service operated in Boston and its inner suburbs and connect to MBTA subway stations. Fifteen high-ridership local routes are designated as List of key MBTA bus routes, key routes, with higher frequency at all operating hours. The MBTA operates a five-route bus rapid transit service branded as the Silver Line (MBTA), Silver Line, as well as MBTA crosstown bus routes, two limited-stop crosstown routes. Three smaller local networks are based in the nearby cities of Lynn, Massachusetts, Lynn, Waltham, Massachusetts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Marathon Bombing
The Boston Marathon bombing, sometimes referred to as simply the Boston bombing, was an Islamist domestic terrorist attack that took place during the 117th annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs that detonated near the finish line of the race 14 seconds and apart. Three people were killed and hundreds injured, including a dozen who lost limbs. On April 18, 2013, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released images of two suspects in the bombing. The two suspects were later identified as the Tsarnaev brothers. Later on the evening of April 18, the Tsarnaev brothers killed an MIT policeman, Sean Collier, and proceeded to commit a carjacking. They engaged in a shootout with police in nearby Watertown, during which two officers were severely injured (one of the injured officers, Dennis Simmonds, died a year later). Tamerlan was shot several times, and his brother Dzhokhar ran him o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Marathon
The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon race hosted by eight cities and towns in greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts, United States. It is traditionally held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, the event was inspired by the success of the first marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics. The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon and ranks as one of the world's best-known road racing events. It is one of seven World Marathon Majors. Its course runs from Hopkinton in southern Middlesex County to Copley Square in Boston. The Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.) has organized this event annually since 1897, including a "virtual alternative" after the 2020 road race was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The race has been managed by DMSE Sports since 1988. Amateur and professional runners from all over the world compete in the Boston Marathon each year, braving the hilly Massachusetts terrain and varying weather to take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library is a municipal public library system in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1848. The Boston Public Library is also Massachusetts' Library for the Commonwealth (formerly ''library of last recourse''), meaning all adult residents of the state are entitled to borrowing and research privileges, and the library receives state funding. The Boston Public Library contains approximately 24 million items, making it the third-largest public library in the United States behind the federal Library of Congress and New York Public Library, which is also privately endowed. The Central Library's McKim building in Copley Square was designated as a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission in 2000. Overview Boston Public Library has a collection of more than 23.7 million items, which makes it one of the largest municipal public library systems in the United States. The vast majority of the collection—over 22.7 million volumes—is held in the Central Branch rese ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tremont Street Subway
The Tremont Street subway in Boston's MBTA subway system is the oldest subway tunnel in North America and the third-oldest still in use worldwide to exclusively use electric traction (after the City and South London Railway in 1890, and Line 1 (Budapest Metro), the Budapest Metro's Line 1 in 1896), opening on September 1, 1897. It was originally built, under the supervision of Howard Adams Carson, Howard A. Carson as chief engineer, to get streetcar lines off the traffic-clogged streets, instead of as a true rapid transit line. It now forms the central part of the Green Line (MBTA), Green Line, connecting Boylston (MBTA station), Boylston Street to Park Street station (MBTA), Park Street and Government Center (MBTA station), Government Center stations. History The tunnel originally served five closely spaced stations: Boylston station, Boylston, Park Street, Government Center station (MBTA), Scollay Square, Adams Square station, Adams Square, and Haymarket station (MBTA), Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copley Station Inbound Headhouse, December 2014
Copley may refer to: People * Copley (surname) Places Australia * Copley, South Australia United Kingdom * Copley, County Durham * Copley, Greater Manchester, formerly in Cheshire ** Copley Academy, a school * Copley, West Yorkshire United States of America * Copley Place, an indoor shopping mall in Boston * Copley Square in Boston ** Copley (MBTA station), at that square * Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on Copley Square * Copley, Ohio * Copley Township, Ohio ** Copley High School ** 2011 Copley Township shooting * Coplay, Pennsylvania * Copley, West Virginia Other uses * Copley Medal, a scientific award granted by the Royal Society of London * Copley Press, a California-based newspaper publisher * Copley (crater) Copley is a crater on Mercury. It has a diameter of 34 kilometers. Its name was adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Copley is named for the American painter John Singleton Copley, who lived from 1738 to 1815. File:Co .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old South Church And Former MBTA Entrance, April 2005
Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Maine, United States People *Old (surname) Music *OLD (band), a grindcore/industrial metal group * ''Old'' (Danny Brown album), a 2013 album by Danny Brown * ''Old'' (Starflyer 59 album), a 2003 album by Starflyer 59 * "Old" (song), a 1995 song by Machine Head *"Old", a 1982 song by Dexys Midnight Runners from ''Too-Rye-Ay'' Other uses * ''Old'' (film), a 2021 American thriller film *''Oxford Latin Dictionary'' *Online dating *Over-Locknut Distance (or Dimension), a measurement of a bicycle wheel and frame See also *Old age *List of people known as the Old *''Old LP'', a 2019 album by That Dog * * *Olde, a list of people with the surname *Olds (other) Olds may refer to: People * The olds, a jocular and irreverent online nick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amtrak
The National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Trade name, doing business as Amtrak (; ), is the national Passenger train, passenger railroad company of the United States. It operates intercity rail service in 46 of the 48 contiguous United States, contiguous U.S. states and three Provinces and territories of Canada, Canadian provinces. ''Amtrak'' is a portmanteau of the words ''America'' and ''track.'' Founded in 1971 as a Quasi-corporation, quasi-public corporation to operate many U.S. passenger rail routes, Amtrak receives a combination of state and federal subsidies but is managed as a for-profit corporation, for-profit organization. The company's headquarters is located one block west of Washington Union Station, Union Station in Washington, D.C. Amtrak is headed by a Board of Directors, two of whom are the United States Secretary of Transportation, secretary of transportation and chief executive officer (CEO) of Amtrak, while the other eight members are nominated to serve a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MBTA Commuter Rail
The MBTA Commuter Rail system serves as the commuter rail arm of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA's) transportation coverage of Greater Boston in the United States. Trains run over of track on 12 lines to 142 stations. It is operated under contract by Keolis. In , the system had a ridership of , or about per weekday as of , making it the List of United States commuter rail systems by ridership, fifth-busiest commuter rail system in the U.S., behind the three New York-area systems and the Metra, Chicago-area system. The line's characteristic purple-trimmed coaches operate as far south as North Kingstown, Rhode Island, and as far north as Newburyport, Massachusetts, Newburyport and as far west as Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Fitchburg, both in Massachusetts. Trains originate at two major Terminal station, terminals in Boston – South Station and North Station. The only connection between the two halves of the system is the non-revenue Grand Junction Railroad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orange Line (MBTA)
The Orange Line is a rapid transit line operated by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) as part of the MBTA subway system. The line runs south on the surface from Oak Grove station in Malden, Massachusetts through Malden and Medford, Massachusetts, Medford, paralleling the Haverhill Line, then crosses the Mystic River on a bridge into Somerville, Massachusetts, Somerville, then into Charlestown, Boston, Charlestown. It passes under the Charles River and runs through Downtown Boston in the Washington Street Tunnel. The line returns to the surface in the South End, Boston, South End, then follows the Southwest Corridor (Boston), Southwest Corridor southwest in a cut through Roxbury, Massachusetts, Roxbury and Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, Jamaica Plain to Forest Hills station (MBTA), Forest Hills station. The Orange Line operates during normal MBTA service hours (all times except late nights) with six-car trains. It uses a 152-car CRRC fleet built in 2018–2024. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Back Bay Station
Back Bay station (also signed as Back Bay · South End) is an intermodal passenger station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is located just south of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay and South End neighborhoods. It serves MBTA Commuter Rail and MBTA subway routes, and also serves as a secondary Amtrak intercity rail station for Boston. The present building, designed by Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, opened in 1987. It replaced the New Haven Railroad's older Back Bay station – which opened in 1928 as a replacement for an 1899-built station – as well as the New York Central's Huntington Avenue and Trinity Place stations which had been demolished in 1964. Although South Station is Boston's primary rail hub, Back Bay maintains high traffic levels due to its location in the Back Bay neighborhood near the Prudential Center development and its access to important Northeast Corridor services. All Amtrak ''Acela Express'' and ''Northeast Regional'' trains running to and from South Statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
