The master highway plan for the Boston metropolitan area
By: [prepared by] Charles A. Maguire and Associates in cooperation with De Leuw, Cather and Company [and] J. E. Greiner Company. Submitted to Robert F. Bradford, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Joint Board for the Metropolitan Master Highway Plan. Based upon a traffic survey by the Dept. of Public Works; Public Roads Administration, Federal Works Agency participating.
Contributors: Massachusetts. Joint Board for the Metropolitan Master Highway Plan.
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Roads -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Traffic surveys -- Massachusetts -- Boston.; Boston (Mass.) -- Streets.
Description: A master ten year plan for Boston and twenty-three surrounding cities and towns; focuses on coordination between transit and highway planning and imposition of tolls to finance the project; includes results of traffic studies and estimates of future traffic volumes; makes recommendations for design of an expressway system, improvements to the street system, truck routes, and outlines parking considerations; includes cost estimates and many maps and illustrations.