David Kruh
BOSTON HAS long displayed a kind of schizophrenia when it comes to motorized vehicles on its streets. The automobile wasn't even in mass production in 1909, but the city's narrow paths were already so badly clogged that the first idea for a downtown elevated bypass was floated. Ironically, when the Central Artery was finally built in the 1950s its primary ... (Full article: 756 words)
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