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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
Description:
STRIKE OF MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD SPREADS TO B&M. EFFECT ON FREIGHT SERVICE
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
05/23/1986
Description:
Chris Lydon's travelogue of Berlin, featuring beer, fast food, shopping, transit, museum, concert hall, and library.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
12/24/1990
Description:
Wonderland Blue Line station in Revere. Train pulls up to platform, passengers get on. Walking tour of Central Square in Lynn, where transit station is proposed as necessary for much needed economic development. Comments from Urban Mass Transportation (UMTA) administrator Theodore Lutz about rapid transit extension.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/06/1980
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
Description:
Braintree, MA MBTA visuals; rain.
Collection:
Ten O'Clock News
Date Created:
03/21/1980
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
