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Amtrak and Orange Line

Description: Back Bay Amtrak station entrance. Train, viewed from above, starts up and moves slowly along tracks. Train histle and bells. Railroad bed. Commuter train pulls up, passengers board. Two trains pass in opposite directions. Looking down tracks to old and new Hancock buildings. Orange line elevated structure along Washington Street. T train passes overhead with typical clunking sound; congested vehicular traffic below. Camera moves on complex steel skeleton of tracks above.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

Boston taxi pool

Description: Boston wants to increase taxi pool by raising the quota of medallions available (at $90,000), a limit unchanged in over 50 years. Passenger paying driver. Ritz-Carlton doorman hailing cab.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1988

Brock Adams on southwest corridor

Description: Outdoor press conference with Brock Adams, US Secretary of Transportation, flanked by Sens. Edward Brooke and Edward Kennedy, on southwest corridor mass transit project. Fred Salvucci stands behind them. $669 million in federal funds approved. An additional $1 billion will be invested through public/private initiatives for urban development contingent with relocation of the orange line. Kennedy and Brooke make grateful remarks. Reps. Mary Good and James Craven. Mel King appears (in t-shirt and baseball cap) to acknowledge the efforts of community activists. This very large scale public works project will create jobs and keep the neighborhoods from being physically divided along racial lines. Adams answers question on air traffic congestion expected at large airports.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1978

Bulger and Boston Garden

Description: Conflict of development rights for transportation+ construction of new arena in Boston. Dukakis+Bulger claim to be working toward solution; Flynn skeptical. Bruins on ice. Amtrak train pulls into North Station.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1988

Bulger and new arena

Description: Republican Party and Mayor Flynn are concerned that William Bulger wields too much power in conflict between transportation bond issue and development of new arena. Clip of Bruins game.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1988

Bus Services

Description: Bus Services, Dudley Station, footage shot 7/22/1981.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982

Bus terminals

Description: Greyhound bus terminal in Boston. Passengers enter. Bank of pay telephones. Student sits on duffel bag on floor in front of coin lockers. People buy tickets, board bus. Bonanza and Vermont Transit buses parked. Inside station elderly and young people wait in chairs, some with small tvs. Continental Trailways revolving sign. Gray Line bus parked outside Trailways terminal. Travelers carry suitcases. Peter Pan and Almeida buses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/09/1979

Commuter boat

Description: Commuter boat between Hingham and Boston offers an alternative to traffic jams. Parking is a problem at both ends.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1988

DIMINO AND TRAFFIC RELIEF

Description: BOSTON TRAFFIC COMMISSIONER RICHARD DIMINO ON TRAFFIC RELIEF PROGRAM, RESTRICTED PARKING. TOW TRUCK, PARKING GARAGE, DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC, BEACON AND TREMONT STREET SIGNS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/08/1986

Funds for high-speed train

Description: Sen. John Kerry announces federal funds for track improvement eventually enabling high-speed train from Boston to New York. Passengers inside train. Amtrak train pulling out at South Station, conductor waves.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1990