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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

Green line MBTA

Description: Green line T pulling into and out of Kenmore station underground during rush hour. Old style PCC trolley and newer LRV cars. Driver's point of view, looking down tracks into dark subway tunnel. Passengers get on and off.Passenger reading Benjamin Disraeli. Passenger complains about MBTA service.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/15/1979

Greyhound Bus Strike

Description: Greyhound Bus Strike, Stuart Street, Boston. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/17/1983

Helicopter service

Description: Helicopter service inaugurated between Logan & waterfront hotels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/10/1987

Increase in taxi fares

Description: Boston taxi fares will increase. Cab driver explains why this is necessary. Medallions.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/28/1989

Jimmy Hat

Description: Campaign based on rap song "Jimmy Hat" advises teens to use condoms to protect against AIDS. Deborah Prothrow-Stith. ABCD wants the public service ads on the T. Trolley doors close.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/31/1989

Lingering questions on Central Artery

Description: Julie Belaga of EPA challenges public works commissioner Jane Garvey to clarify mass transit solution to alleviate Central Artery traffic. Artery traffic and underpass.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/24/1990

MBTA

Description: MBTA shots at Park Street Station. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/11/1980

MBTA

Description: MBTA, shots of Red Line and Green Line Trains at Park Street Station, standups of reporter Bennett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/31/1980

MBTA

Description: MBTA Green Line Park Street Station. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/30/1982

NIGHT DRIVING

Description: CHAOTIC NIGHTTIME TRAFFIC ON COMMONWEALTH AVENUE BRIGHTON WITH TROLLEY
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/04/1986

North Station

Description: Commuter train terminal of North Station. Commuters wait on outdoor platform. PA voice announces track numbers, train stops, departure times. Two conductors talk to passenger. Railroad bed strewn with litter. Blue engine car. B&M (Boston and Maine) logo. Man reads newspaper while waiting. Man carries bouquet of flowers. Men carry briefcases. People move en masse to board train. Man smokes. Train slowly pulls out of station, sounds whistle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1978

Orange line in southwest corridor

Description: Orange line Egleston station. POV riding up escalator to outdoor platform with few passengers waiting. Empty train pulls up, people board. POV riding along track, looking inbound to Boston and down onto track bed. Train interior. Characteristic screeching and locomotion clunking sounds. Train passes through Dudley station. Map sign of MBTA subway system.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/04/1977

PORT OF BOSTON

Description: MICHAEL DUKAKIS, DAVID DAVIS, ROSEMARIE SANSONE WELCOME TRANSFREIGHT LINES (TFL) INTO PORT OF BOSTON. INTERVIEW WITH INTERNATIONAL LONGSHOREMEN'S ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ON SHIPPING FROM PORT OF BOSTON
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/27/1984

Park Square environs

Description: Park Square environs. Carl Fischer Music store on Boylston Street. Entrance to Colonial Theater. Gilbert and Sullivan posters flank doors. Continental Trailways Bus sign and terminal. Park Square traffic. Emancipation statue of Abraham Lincoln and kneeling slave. Inscription on base: “A race set free and the country at peace. Lincoln rests from his labors.” Avis Rent a Car, Club Max, Teddy Bear Lounge, Park Square Lounge (“ladies invited”), Mouse Trap Cabaret marquee.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/24/1978

SOUTH STATION

Description: SOUTH STATION, PETER PAN BUSES. FRED SALVUCCI COMMENTS ON COMMUTER RAIL TO SOUTH SHORE AND OTHER PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ISSUES.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1985

School bus drivers' strike standstill

Description: Impasse continues in Boston school bus drivers' strike. Parents disgusted at having to transport children. Laval Wilson about to propose making drivers public employees (who cannot strike).
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1987

South Station renovation

Description: Fred Salvucci and Gov. Michael Dukakis inaugurate renovated South Station. Exterior and interior. Concession stand. Commuter train. Passenger at ticket window.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/13/1989

Southwest corridor construction

Description: Audio goes in and out. Some video deterioration. MBTA southwest corridor construction site for orange line relocation. Urban Mass Transportation Project sign. Gov. Edward King gets out of car, shakes hands with bystanders. Secretary of Transportation James Carlin introduces King who talks about economic vitality created by largest construction project in Boston history. Signs bill transferring land from MDC. Governor King responds to question on extending Logan runways, and the actions of the board of the Massachusetts Port Authority and the executive director of Logan International Airport.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/13/1982

Stills of Boston 1850-1920

Description: Subway maps from Boston Transit Commission. Archival photos of downtown Boston and environs 1850-1920. Park Street, Quincy Market, Faneuil Hall, Copley Square, Bowdoin Square, Tremont, School, Arlington, and Newbury Streets, Commonwealth Avenue, Washington Street, Scollay Square, India Wharf, State House.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1977

The Ride

Description: Wheelchair users gather on City Hall plaza to protest The Ride van service with lift because it is ill-equipped and unreliable. James O'Leary, MBTA general manager. Handicapped. Discrimination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1988