Talk:History of the MBTA Green Line

Fenway stop history

My recollection is that the Fenway stop had limited service in the 1980's - Red Sox game day only? If this is true, please add to article.-96.237.4.73 (talk) 14:40, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

See Talk:Fenway (MBTA station)#Fenway stop history. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

Move request?

Should this not be moved to History of the Green Line (MBTA)? Any reason for the current title? It doesn't seem to conform with typical examples. BostonUrbEx (talk) 12:53, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Ugh, that's a question with no good answer. You're definitely correct that it should be moved, and probably about what to move to, but both it and the current name are horribly clunky. "History of the MBTA Green Line" is a lot better aesthetically, but clashes with the current naming system. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 19:15, 8 August 2014 (UTC)

Merged

I have merged this article back to Green Line (MBTA) since very little of this article, beyond the lead, is actually about history. Maybe the article can be renamed Route of the MBTA Green Line. Epic Genius (talk) 20:24, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

It needs an actual lengthy history article - possibly merged with Boston-area streetcar lines - but you're entirely right that this was totally inadequate in its until-now form. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:35, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Boylston Street Subway

The term Boylston Street Subway has lurked as an unexplained concept and as a WP:REDLINK for a number of years in a number of Wikipedia articles, and needs to be explained, either here or as a separate article. As best I can gather, an uninterrupted tunnel ran all the way from Boylston (MBTA station) to Copley (MBTA station), and then to a portal just short of Kenmore Square, c.1914. In 1921, Arlington (MBTA station) was added as an infill station. This is surmised indirectly from source references, but I haven't found a coherent narrative for the complete history of the Boylston Street Subway. Can anybody shed light on this? Reify-tech (talk) 20:38, 11 May 2015 (UTC)t

The single greatest MBTA history available has brief pre-MBTA history for the subway lines. I've been meaning to get to that one anyway, along with a Tremont Street Subway cleanup. The basics:

• October 3, 1914: Boylston Street Subway opens from Boylston to Copley, Massachusetts (Hynes), and the Kenmore Portal. Public Garden portal replaced with Boylston Street portal
• November 13, 1921: Arlington opened as infill (delayed due to the war)
• October 23, 1932: Kenmore station and the Blandford and St. Marys portals
• February 16, 1941: Opening of Huntington Avenue Subway; closure of Boylston Street Portal

The BPL has a large set of construction images which require close attention (many are badly captioned) but I will be working to transfer them. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 20:44, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Wow, thanks for that reference which I had never even heard of. If we ever get a WikiProject: MBTA set up, this should be listed as one of the main resources, along with those reference sources other editors (including myself) may have found. I also point out that the Boston Street Railway Association and its many publications are a major source of information which isn't referenced enough in MBTA Wikipedia articles. Now that the State Transportation Library has disappeared, I don't know where to find a cache of their publications. Reify-tech (talk) 21:06, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

I've created the article but it's still a tiny fraction of its future self so I've placed a template for no one to touch it while I eat dinner. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 21:19, 11 May 2015 (UTC)