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General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport,also known as Boston Logan International Airport and commonly as Boston Logan,Logan Airport or simply Logan,is an international airport that is located mostly in East Boston and partially in Winthrop,Massachusetts. It opened in 1923,covers 2,384 acres (965 ha),has six runways and four passenger terminals,and employs an estimated 16,000 people. It is the largest airport in both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the New England region in terms of passenger volume and cargo handling as well as the busiest airport in the Northeastern United States outside the New York metropolitan area. The airport saw 42 million passengers in 2019,the most in its history. It is named after General Edward Lawrence Logan,a 20th-century war hero native to Boston.
Charlestown is the oldest neighborhood in Boston,Massachusetts,in the United States. Originally called Mishawum by the Massachusett tribe,it is located on a peninsula north of the Charles River,across from downtown Boston,and also adjoins the Mystic River and Boston Harbor waterways. Charlestown was laid out in 1629 by engineer Thomas Graves,one of its earliest settlers,during the reign of Charles I of England. It was originally a separate town and the first capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Edward Joseph King was an American politician who served as the 66th Governor of Massachusetts from 1979 to 1983. A member of the Democratic Party until 1985,he then became a member of the Republican Party. Elected in the 1978 Massachusetts gubernatorial election,he lost the Democratic primary of the 1982 election to his predecessor Michael Dukakis.
Airport station is a rapid transit station in Boston,Massachusetts. It serves the MBTA Blue Line and the SL3 branch of the Silver Line. It is located in East Boston under the interchange between Interstate 90 and Massachusetts Route 1A. The station provides one of two mass transit connections to the nearby Logan International Airport,as well as serving local residents in East Boston. Shuttle buses connect the station with the airport terminals and other facilities.
North Station is a commuter rail and intercity rail terminal station in Boston,Massachusetts. It is served by four MBTA Commuter Rail lines –the Fitchburg Line,Haverhill Line,Lowell Line,and Newburyport/Rockport Line –and the Amtrak Downeaster intercity service. The concourse is located under the TD Garden arena,with the platforms extending north towards drawbridges over the Charles River. The eponymous subway station,served by the Green Line and Orange Line,is connected to the concourse with an underground passageway.
The Maurice J. Tobin Memorial Bridge is a cantilever truss bridge that spans more than two miles (3 km) from Boston to Chelsea over the Mystic River in Massachusetts. The bridge is the largest in New England. It is operated by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation and carries U.S. Route 1. It was built between 1948 and 1950 and opened to traffic on February 2,1950,replacing the former Chelsea Bridge. The 36-foot (11 m)-wide roadway has three lanes of traffic on each of the two levels with northbound traffic on the lower level and southbound traffic on the upper level.
Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is an American port authority in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It owns and operates three airports,Logan International Airport,Hanscom Field,and Worcester Regional Airport,and public terminals in the Port of Boston.
The Port of Boston is a major seaport located in Boston Harbor and adjacent to the City of Boston. It is the largest port in Massachusetts and one of the principal ports on the East Coast of the United States.
Sullivan Square station is a rapid transit station on the MBTA subway Orange Line,located adjacent to Sullivan Square in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston,Massachusetts. It is a major transfer point for MBTA bus service,with 13 routes using a two-level busway. The station has two island platforms serving the two active Orange Line tracks plus an unused third track. The Haverhill Line and Newburyport/Rockport Line pass through the station on separate tracks but do not stop.
The MBTA boat or MBTA ferry system is a public boat service providing water transportation in Boston Harbor. It is operated by Boston Harbor Cruises (BHC) under contract to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA). In 2022,the system had a ridership of 797,700,or about 3,000 per weekday as of the fourth quarter of 2022. The system consists of three routes that terminate in downtown Boston. F1 service runs from Rowes Wharf to Hewitt's Cove in Hingham. F2H service runs from Long Wharf to Hewitt's Cove,with some trips stopping at Logan Airport,Pemberton Point in Hull,and/or some of the Boston Harbor Islands. F4 service runs in the inner harbor between Long Wharf and the Charlestown Navy Yard. A seasonal pilot service also operates between Long Wharf and East Boston. Two additional seasonal routes,not funded by the MBTA but included on some MBTA documents,run from Boston to Salem and Winthrop.
The Boston Planning &Development Agency (BPDA),formerly the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA),is a Massachusetts public agency that serves as the municipal planning and development agency for Boston,working on both housing and commercial developments.
Mishawum station is an MBTA Commuter Rail Lowell Line station located in the north part of Woburn,Massachusetts just north of the Route 128/I-95 beltway. The station has two side platforms serving the line's two tracks. Mishawum is a limited-service flag stop intended for reverse commuting to the adjacent office park,with no weekend service. With just 32 boardings on an average weekday in 2018,Mishawum is one of the least busy stations on the commuter rail system.
Boston Harborwalk is a public walkway that follows the edge of piers,wharves,beaches,and shoreline around Boston Harbor. When fully completed it will extend a distance of 47 miles (76 km) from East Boston to the Neponset River.
Richard A. Davey is an American attorney and transportation executive who is the President of the New York City Transit Authority. He was the Massachusetts Secretary of Transportation from September 2011 to October 2014 and previously the General Manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority from March 2010 to September 2011. After leaving state government,Davey served as chief executive of Boston 2024,a non-profit group planning Boston's unsuccessful bid for the 2024 Summer Olympics. Davey also previously served as a Partner and associate director at Boston Consulting Group (BCG).
Gerard Francis Doherty was an American political figure who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1957 to 1965 and Chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party from 1962 to 1967.
Otis Minot Whitney was an American politician,jurist,and military officer who served as Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Safety and was a commander of the Massachusetts National Guard's Yankee Division.
Thomas P. Glynn III is a senior official at Harvard University overseeing the Harvard Allston Land Company,a new entity to develop commercial real estate in the Allston land owned by Harvard. He is the former chief executive officer of the Massachusetts Port Authority,former general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority and United States Deputy Secretary of Labor.
Brian O'Halloran is an American baseball executive serving as the general manager of the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB).
North Station is an underground MBTA subway station in Boston,Massachusetts. Served by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) Green Line and Orange Line,it is connected to the North Station surface terminal used by MBTA Commuter Rail and Amtrak. The station is fully accessible.