East Boston Tunnel

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The East Boston Tunnel is a historic underwater transit tunnel in Boston that originally carried streetcars and now forms part of the MBTA’s Blue Line subway connection between downtown Boston and East Boston.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic structure
subway tunnel
underwater transit tunnel
boroughServed Downtown Boston
East Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: East Boston
cityServed Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
connects East Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: East Boston

Downtown Boston
surface form: downtown Boston
constructionStartDate 1900
country United States of America
surface form: United States
crossesUnder Boston Harbor
currentRollingStockType heavy-rail rapid transit cars
currentUse rapid transit tunnel
subway tunnel
electrification overhead catenary (original streetcar operation)
third rail (rapid transit operation)
endStation Maverick station
gauge standard gauge
hasFunction passenger transport
public transportation
hasStation Aquarium
surface form: Aquarium station

Bowdoin station
Government Center station
Maverick station
State station
historicalSignificance one of the earliest underwater urban transit tunnels in the United States
line Blue Line
locatedInWaterBody Boston Harbor
location Boston, Massachusetts
openingDate 1904
openingDateToRapidTransit 1924
openingDateToStreetcars 1904
operator MBTA
surface form: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
originalRollingStockType streetcars
originalUse streetcar tunnel
owner MBTA
surface form: Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
partOf Boston Harbor crossings
MBTA Blue Line
region New England
servedBy Blue Line trains
servedNeighborhood East Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: East Boston

Downtown Boston
surface form: Financial District, Boston

Government Center, Boston
North End, Boston
startStation Bowdoin station
system MBTA
surface form: MBTA subway
transportMode rail

Referenced by (6)

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Blue Line originalName East Boston Tunnel
subject surface form: Blue Line (MBTA)
Fort Point Channel hasStructure East Boston Tunnel
this entity surface form: Fort Point Channel Tunnel
Big Dig includesStructure East Boston Tunnel
this entity surface form: Fort Point Channel Tunnel
Boston Elevated Railway operatedLine East Boston Tunnel
SL3 usesInfrastructure East Boston Tunnel
this entity surface form: East Boston tunnels
Devonshire station line East Boston Tunnel