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Southeast Expressway, Columbia Station

Description: On-ramp to Southeast Expressway. Snow piled high on road shoulders. Heavy traffic. Tracking view of taillights. MBTA snow plow on tracks at Columbia red line station. Full moon - a glowing yellow sphere against grayish sky framed amid bare tree branches. Four lanes of oncoming traffic at dusk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

Southwest Corridor Project

Description: Southwest Corridor Project. Roxbury, Orange Line construction.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1981

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

Southwest corridor groundbreaking

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978

Southwest corridor project

Description: Three interviews on southwest corridor mass transit and development project. Areas affected include the South End, Roxbury Crossing, and Jamaica Plain. Construction will create numerous jobs and have an affirmative action goal with a 30% minority set-aside. $391 million (80% federal funds) will be for orange line and railroad relocation; plus an arterial street, community college, housing, and industrial park will make for at least a half billion dollar project. Residents are concerned about impact of noise and disruption in the adjacent neighborhoods, equitable employment opportunities, and environmental issues. Community groups want to be sure the new road and transit routes do not split the surrounding areas along socioeconomic lines.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/15/1976

Subway tunnel photos

Description: B+W archival photos of subway tunnel construction in downtown Boston, vicinity of Boylston and Tremont Streets, East Boston, Massachusetts Avenue, Broadway, Dorchester Avenue, Copley Square. Horse drawn trolley. Early MBTA tracks underground. circa 1895-1896 and later.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/26/1977

T after snowstorm

Description: Green line trolley cars parked in snow. 15 teens shovel median strip along tracks in Brookline. Old orange trolley pulls to stop, rings bell, slowly proceeds on Beacon Street. Traffic rounds Newton Corner. View down onto Mass. Pike from overpass. Sign points to Charlesbank Road.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

T fare increase

Description: POS with T riders on imminent fare increase. Green line trolley. T passengers buy tokens, pass through turnstile.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/16/1988

THE EL'S LAST RIDERS

Description: INTERVIEWS with LAST RIDERS ON ELEVATED ORANGE LINE
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/30/1987

TOCN '87 compilation

Description: Provincetown water supply problems. Crumbling Dorchester District Courthouse. Studio interview with Alexander Cockburn on media bias. Politicians and celebrities who fell from grace. End of Foxboro harness racing. Review of green line trolley cars.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/31/1987