Report on a thoroughfare plan for Boston

By Boston (Mass.). City Planning Board

Subjects: Proposals, Tunnels, Proposed, Projections (1965), Roads, Boston Street System, Traffic Volumes, Neighborhood, City planning, Aerial Views, Streets, Express highways, History, Central Artery, Bridges, Traffic flow

Description: ...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...