Report on a thoroughfare plan for Boston / prepared by the City Planning Board ; Robert Whitten, consultant.

Main entry:

Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board.

Title & Author:

Report on a thoroughfare plan for Boston / prepared by the City Planning Board ; Robert Whitten, consultant.

Publication:

Boston : City Planning Board, 1930.

Description:

xiv, 236 pages : illustrations, maps (some folded ; 1 folded in pocket) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Foreword by City Planning Board -- Letter of transmittal -- I. Introduction -- II. Summary of projects -- III. General considerations -- IV. Traffic analysis and forecast -- V. Description of projects -- VI. Construction program -- VII. The history of Boston's street system -- VIII. Appendices.

Summary:

... A comprehensive plan of main traffic arteries in Boston that would take care of present and future needs for a 25 year or more period; proposes ten major projects: 1) East Boston tunnel or bridge, 2) Central Artery, 3) Blue Hills radial, 4) North Shore radial, 5) Roxbury Crosstown, 6) Charles River Parkway, 7) North Beacon Street, Brighton, 8) Canterbury and Clarendon Hills Parkway, 9) Neponset River Parkway, and 10) elevated road over the Boston and Albany railroad tracts; includes traffic volume data with estimates for 1965, aerial photos, a history of Boston's street system, proposals for neighborhood streets, etc.; a copy of this item was in the BRA collection ...

Subject:

City planning Massachusetts Boston.
Streets Massachusetts Boston Planning.
Streets Massachusetts Boston.
Rues Massachusetts Boston.
Rues Massachusetts Boston Planification.
City planning
Streets
Massachusetts Boston

Added entries:

Whitten, Robert Harvey, 1873-1936, consultant.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 803
Call No.: ID:87-B11083
Status: Available

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