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The Green Line is one of the four MBTA subway lines in the Boston, Massachusetts metro area. It runs in part over the Tremont Street Subway , the oldest subway tunnel in North America, which opened in stages between September 1, 1897 and September 3, 1898. The elevated line between the Canal Street portal at North Station and Lechmere Square was opened June 1, 1912; as of 2004 it is now closed and is being demolished, the demolished portions to be replaced with a tunnel through the North Station parking garage with a new portal being constructed west of the Fleet Center. The Boylston Street subway opened from Charles and Boylston Streets to a portal at Kenmore St. at Governor's Square on October 3, 1914. The Kenmore St. portal was replaced by a new, four-track underground Kenmore StationKenmore Station is a subway stop on Boston's MBTA, located in Kenmore Square. Besides serving Kenmore Square, it is the main stop for both Fenway Park (There is a 'Fenway' stop located further down the 'D' branch of the Green Line, but it refers to the ne on October 23October 23 is the 296th day of the year (297th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 69 days remaining. Events 4004 BC The universe was created, according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar. 42 BC Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Phili, 19321932 is the leap year starting on Friday. see link for calendar) Events January-February January 3 British arrest and intern Mohandas Gandhi and Vallabhbhai Patel January 8 In Britain the Archbishop of Canterbury forbids church remarriage of divorcees Jan. The Huntington Ave. subway opened February 16February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 318 days remaining (319 in leap years). Events 1742 Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, becomes British Prime Minister. 1804 First Barbary War: Stephen Decatur leads a raid to b, 19411941 is also the title of a Steven Spielberg movie made in 1979 see 1941 (film). Events January January 6 Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms Speech in the State of the Union Address. January 10 Lend-Lease is introduced into the United St, allowing the closure of the portal at Charles and Boylston. Finally, the Highland Branch of the Boston and Albany railroad was converted to high-speed trolley service on July 4July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. Events 993 Saint Ulrich of Augsburg canonized. 1054 A supernova is observed by the Chinese and Amerindians near the star ζ Tauri. For severa, 1959Events January-February January 1 Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin. January 1 Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance January 2 CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Bac.One segment of the original Tremont Street Subway has remained abandoned since April 6April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). There are 269 days remaining. Events 648 BC Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks. 402 Stilicho stymies the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollent, 1962, between Boylston Station and a portal at Tremont and Broadway in what is now the Theatre District. It has been proposed to reopen this tunnel for use by the Silver Line.
The modern-day Green Line has its northern terminus at Lechmere Station in Cambridge. From here it runs east and then south through Boston, diverging once west of Copley Square, and then into three separate branches at Kenmore Square. The Copley branch is the E Line, which presently terminates at the Heath Street station. The Kenmore branches are the B Line, terminating at the Boston College station, the C Line, terminating at the Cleveland Circle station in Brookline, and the D Line, terminating at the Riverside station in Newton.
A fifth line branched off the Commonwealth Ave. line at Packard's Corner running via Union Square Allston, Brighton Center, and Oak Square, to Watertown Square. This service was suspended on June 21, 1969 due to a streetcar shortage, and was never resumed. (Although the route-letter scheme had been introduced two years prior to its closure, the "A" designation was never signed on streetcars operating to Watertown. It was, however, included in the destination signs on the Boeing-Vertol light rail vehicles ordered in the mid-1970s, when reopening the Watertown service was still under consideration.) The A line tracks remained in non-revenue service to access maintenance facilities at Watertown until 1994.
Unlike the Red Line, Blue Line and Orange Line, all of which run cars in a deep depression in the ground so that the car is level with the platform and thus the cars are easily handicap-accessible, the Green Line runs standard light rail cars such that the platform is level with the bottom of the wheels of the cars, and users must step up into the vehicle. The MBTA is now in the process of trying to phase-in "low-floor streetcars" that would help this situation.
