The original concept for the subway was to concentrate traffic from the south and west into Park St and traffic from the north into Scollay Sq. The original Scollay Sq (now Government Center) station was smaller than the present station but still had the odd shape due to how streets were laid out. Note that there was once a sub passage between the two platforms. This is where the classic trolleys are stored and the tunnels are still there being used as an emergency exit. The outer tracks lead to the Pleasant St portal and have not been used since the 1960’s. The inner tracks serve the traffic from the west and is still in use today. In this plan you can see the original layout where both sets of tracks were in use. Boylston St Stationīoylston St station today looks very much like it did when it was first built. Today the area of this portal is a small park in the Bay Village with a cylindrical building that was once a church. Traffic on the South Boston line ended in the early 1950’s and a short shuttle to Lenox Ave in the South End was put in place for a few years before the line was torn up. Trolley traffic dropped after the opening of the Washington St Elevated line, the Orange Line, which served the South End. At Pleasant St trolleys from the South End and South Boston were funneled to Park St. Originally the subway was built with two southern portals, one at Boylston St and one at Pleasant St, to capture trolley traffic coming from the west and the south, respectively. theOriginalMBTA :: the 1897 plans Pleasant St Station I am going to keep them the way they are to see how I progress in my map making skills. I don’t plan on fixing them, so don’t bother pointing them out. There are a few errors in each, as I usually made these at 1 in the morning. These are the first maps I made and the inspiration for this website. The first maps are ones that are made to look like the current T map. 2050 Future System Map: This last map I made for an article for Boston Magazine, though it was only featured on their website (that is no longer there). Along with the extensions from the previous maps this map includes the Orange Line to Reading, Needham, and Route 128, the Green Line to Needham, the Blue Line to Salem, and the Red Line to Route 128 in Lexington. Future System Map 7: This is a MBTA future system map which shows every extension listed in the Project for Mass Transit report in 2003, when this was made. Future System Map 6: This is a MBTA future system map with all extensions from the previous maps but expands the Urban Ring to Logan Airport, City Point in South Boston, and to UMass Boston in Dorchester. Future System Map 5: This is a MBTA future system map that shows the extensions from the previous maps but adds the Urban Ring from Wellington station to Dudley Sq. Future System Map 4: This is a MBTA future system map showing the extensions of the Green Line south from the previous maps, along with the Indigo Line, but also the extension of the Green Line to West Medford and the Blue Line to Charles/MGH. Future System Map 3: This is a MBTA future system map showing the extensions of the Green and Blue Lines from the previous maps along with the addition of the Indigo Line to Readville. This is an MBTA future system map showing the extensions of the Green Line from the previous map with the extension of the Blue Line to West Medford. This is an MBTA future system map showing the extensions of the Green Line to Forest Hills and to Mattapan via Dudley Sq. System Maps futureMBTA Map Future System Map 1: Every once in a while I might write a new proposal, but I want to keep the original project around for posterity. ![]() ![]() Much has changed since then, and my plans have evolved as I learned more and talked to people about my ideas. Much of the content was written when I was first researching the MBTA and Boston transit history in the mid 2000s. ![]() The futureMBTA is really why this entire site exists and though I have moved on to other projects it will remain close to my heart. As such, many of these maps are crude and contain errors. I started these in 2004 and many represent my first forays into making maps. I started drawing these maps as a way to visually represent the proposed subway extensions I had read about online. The futureMBTA was my beginning into making maps and understanding transit. But they exist to show how my early work has evolved. ![]() I do not update these ideas, as some are very much out of date. Author’s Note: I’ve consolidated all the futureMBTA posts into one page as an archive of work.
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