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Boston, Massachussetts
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Boston lies on the eastern seaboard of the United States and is the largest city in New England with Greater Boston having a
population of approximately 2.6 million.
Like most major U.S. cities Boston suffers from a dependency on car usage, even though it is served with good public transport
in the form of commuter rail, inter city rail, underground trains and a large fleet of commuter buses. My visits here included
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), who are the largest public transport provider in Greater Boston, and
SmartRoute Systems who provide a wide range of high-tech traveller information services.
As well as these visits it was useful to use the public transport systems to travel around Greater Boston and look at the
traffic problems first hand. At the time, Central Boston itself was in the middle of a major scheme to tunnel part of its
current freeway system, so there was little effort involved to witness, first hand, traffic congestion problems affecting the
city.
Visit in Boston included:
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
SmartRoute Systems
Miscellaneous Boston
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