Dorchester Avenue (Boston)
The Dorchester Avenue (short Dot Ave, former Dorchester Turnpike ) is an approximately 5 mi (8 km) long road in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. It runs in a north-south direction from the Rolling Bridge Park through the neighborhoods South Boston and Dorchester to the city limits to Milton, where it terminates at the junction of Washington Street and Adams Street. Since it was originally conceived as a toll Turnpike, it has a continuous linear gradient.
History
Where today is the bridge of the West 4th Street, Boston South Bridge was opened on 1 October 1805 as the first bridge linking the city center with South Boston over the Fort Point Channel. Until its sale to the City of Boston on April 19, 1832 was a toll road. The Dorchester Turnpike Corporation was founded on March 4, 1805 to build a toll road from the east end of the bridge over the Neponset River to Milton Bridge, on the other side later, the Blue Hill Turnpike further led.
The works, however caused significantly higher costs than expected, and so relatively high tolls were requested. This often meant that the older travelers, long distance, selected by Roxbury. Nevertheless, the Dorchester Turnpike was one of the most profitable toll roads whose revenue rose continuously until 1838. With the commissioning of the for the most part parallel Old Colony Railroad, however, the revenue declined rapidly.
In 1826, the North Free Bridge was opened on this day and Dorchester Avenue Bridge site, which offered an improved connection from the northern end of the Turnpike at the Dewey Square in the city center. On April 22, 1854, the duty of the Dorchester Turnpike toll was lifted and the road to enable vehicles to what has been indicated also by renaming in Dorchester Avenue. From 1856 to 1870 the road was in the meantime the name Federal Street.
Transportation
The Dorchester Avenue Railroad took one of the first trams in Boston in 1857 to operate on and led along the entire route of the Dorchester Avenue. With the opening of the parallel to Dorchester Avenue running Red Line at the beginning of the 20th century, most passengers switched to the new subway as the preferred means of transport, so that the rails of the tramway were removed in the 1950s. On the road today operate in the field of public transport buses exclusively the MBTA.
Classification
The first numbered streets in New England were established in 1922 New England Interstate Highways. The former New England Interstate Highway 6 and U.S. Highway 3 Today was probably south of South Boston along the Dorchester Avenue.
In the 1930s, the "C" routes have been identified in the inner city areas of Boston. The Massachusetts Route C37 led it as an extension of Massachusetts Route 37 over today's Morrissey Boulevard and met at the Old Colony Avenue in the Dorchester Avenue. From there, they led on this route up to its northern end at the Congress Street and turned thence in a northwesterly direction to the city center.
In the 1970s, the "C" routes have been decommissioned, so the Dorchester Avenue now has no numbering.