1985, ISBN: 9781156581797

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Red Line, South Station, Alewife, Ashmont, Kendall/mit, Ashmont-mattapan High Speed Line, Park Street, Jfk/umass, Harvard, Charles/mgh, Downtown Crossing, Quincy Center, Mattapan, Fields Corner, Porter, Capen Street, Milton, Davis, Andrew, Quincy Adams, Central, Braintree, North Quincy, Wollaston, Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Red Line, South Station, Alewife, Ashmont, Kendall/mit, Ashmont-mattapan High Speed Line, Park Street, Jfk/umass, Harvard, Charles/mgh, Downtown Crossing, Quincy Center, Mattapan, Fields Corner, Porter, Capen Street, Milton, Davis, Andrew, Quincy Adams, Central, Braintree, North Quincy, Wollaston, Shawmut, Savin Hill, Broadway, Butler, Valley Road, Central Avenue, Cedar Grove, Winter Street Concourse. Excerpt: Alewife Station, located at the intersection of Alewife Brook Parkway and Cambridgepark West in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a local intermodal transportation hub. It is the northern terminus of the MBTA 's Red Line, and a bus terminal for several local routes. It opened on March 30, 1985.The station is named after Alewife Brook, a nearby tributary of the Mystic River. The alewife is a species of fish which inhabits the Mystic River system. Its facilities include: Terminating bus routes History Boston transportation planners expected to build an Inner Belt within the Route 128 corridor in the 1970s. MA Route 2 was designed with eight lanes to carry large volumes of radial traffic to the Inner Belt. When the Inner Belt was canceled, Route 2 became an overbuilt highway that terminated at what was little more than major city streets. When the westward extension of the Red Line was being designed, building a station near the end of Route 2 with a large parking garage seemed like a way to capitalize on the original Route 2 investment. There was little near the site of the Alewife station besides a largely abandoned industrial park, a chemical factory and a protected wetlands. Following principles that came to be known as transit-oriented development, the City of Cambridge zoned the area immediately near the station for high rise buildings. Over the next 20 Books, , Red-Line~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<