On the morning of Sept. 1, 1897, the residents of Boston woke up to the dawn of a new era in public transportation. Shortly after 6 a.m., a trolley car headed down a slope toward a newly finished ...

January 27, 1878: “In the use of the bicycle, Boston has led the rest of the country,” the story on the cycle craze reported. Bostonians owned “probably 50″ bicycles. In 1893, a time cycling was only ...

One hundred twenty-five years after Boston opened the first subway in the nation, the modern system is besieged by safety deficiencies and faces federal mandates for improvements. Boylston and Park ...