EARLY IN 1966 I began a new job. My commute was from Boston to Watertown Square. I took the Red Line and transferred, weather protected, to the Watertown electric trolley bus. The MBTA wanted to get rid of trolley buses then. They still do. I couldn’t imagine getting rid of anything so good. I still […]
Kenneth Kruckemeyer
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Baker faces same choice Sargent did in 1972
IN 1972, Republican Gov. Francis W. Sargent confronted the question of whether to perpetuate a decades-old plan to run the I-95 highway through Boston neighborhoods, or to adopt a forward-looking, community-inspired plan that swept away outdated ideas. It took courage for the governor to abandon the obsolete notion of building an elevated interstate through Roxbury […]