History of the MBTA
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title:
History of the MBTA
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The history of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and its predecessors spans two centuries, starting with one of the oldest railroads in the United States. Development of mass transportation both followed existing economic and population patterns, and helped shape those patterns. Privately owned mass transit in the Boston area evolved from the colonial period into the early 1900s, including ferries, steamships, steam commuter railroads, horse and electric streetcars, elevated
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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Story of mass transit in the Boston US area
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_MBTA
date created:
2007-11-30T03:58:26Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T22:00:51Z
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