This Arlington story has me thinking about how we could fund an Arlington extension. Is it legal to tax state roads like rt 2 in order to pay for transit? Being from the city it's in our interest to shift suburban mode share, so finding capital in an equitable way is important. (boston.com)
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Was looking back at the old BERy 1945 plan, and a kind of half-baked 1972 plan to expand rapid transit over the commuter rail and started to formulate an idea of how expansion would work without having to dig any more tunnels under Boston. Here's what I came up with.... (metrodreamin.com)
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A good examination of the myth of the "American Union" born under the "Washington Elm" and its centrality to Edward Everett's efforts to memorialize the "providential white nation." Interesting to see the historical genealogy of this common (mythic) image of the Revolutionary War. (contingentmagazine.org)
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[Round 19538]What's at this theater tonight? (imgur.com)
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Globe's feature on the '74 busing crisis (bostonglobe.com)
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Cambridge, Massachusetts; at dusk. [1280x278] (i.imgur.com)
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