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Buffyoh t1_iydtxgo wrote

Reply to comment by SlightlyStoopkid in Finally connecting Red and Blue lines by MDeehan

Much of the tunnel is already there from the time the Blue line was a Streetcar line. Until the early Fifties, there was a portal that came up on Cambridge Street almost at Blossom Street. There was once a streetcar route from Jeffries Point to Harvard Square. But between the former portal and the Red Line MGH stop, there is a ton of underground utilities. Photo of the Blossom Portal is in this article:

http://www.bostonstreetcars.com/the-growth-of-boston-rapid-transit.html

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Buffyoh t1_iydqc8m wrote

Reply to comment by MyRespectableAlt in Finally connecting Red and Blue lines by MDeehan

The only sensible answer here! Many years ago there was a study by the Central Tranportation Planning Staff ("CTPS") to run the Blue line out to Riverside via the Central subway. (Until fairly recently, the two center tracks at Kenmore were raised in anticpation of high platfrom RTL cars) I recall that the plan was to tunnel under Bowdoin Street. Either way, Red/Blue will be highly disruptive and high cost.

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Reply to comment by pjw21200 in The U.S. & the Holocaust, Episode 1: “The Golden Door” (2022) A xenophobic backlash prompts Congress to restrict immigration. Hitler and the Nazis persecute German Jews, forcing many to seek refuge. FDR is concerned by the growing crisis but is unable to coordinate a response. [02:08:43] by s_y_s_t_e_m_i_c_

There were laws in European nations restricting the activities of Jews long before there were Jim Crow laws.

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