That same pattern of earnings shows up on the Massachusetts Turnpike.

The project concluded on December 31, 2007, when the partnership between the program manager and the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ended.

However, earlier controversies over impact of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, particularly on the heavily populated neighborhood of Brighton, and the large number of additional homes that would have had to be destroyed, led to massive community opposition to both the Inner Belt and the Boston section of I-95.

Traffic on the major highways from west of Boston — the Massachusetts Turnpike and Storrow Drive — mostly traveled on portions of the Central Artery to reach these tunnels.

The final Big Dig plan, then, combined several projects — the depression and improvement of the Central Artery, the construction of a third Harbor tunnel ( now known as the Ted Williams Tunnel ), and massive interchange improvements to the Massachusetts Turnpike and several other major routes in the area.

East – west traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike now proceeds directly through the Ted Williams Tunnel to Logan Airport and Route 1A beyond, with new exits in South Boston along the way.

In 1997, the state legislature created the Metropolitan Highway System and transferred responsibility for the Central Artery and Tunnel " CA / T " Project from the Massachusetts Highway Department and the Massachusetts Governor's Office to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ).

The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority ( MTA ), which had little experience in managing an undertaking of the scope and magnitude of the CA / T Project, hired a joint venture to provide preliminary designs, manage design consultants and construction contractors, track the project's cost and schedule, advise MTA on project decisions, and ( in some instances ) act as the MTA's representative.

* Massachusetts Turnpike

Soon after, turnpikes were built: the Cambridge and Concord Turnpike ( today's Broadway and Concord Ave .), the Middlesex Turnpike ( Hampshire St. and Massachusetts Ave. northwest of Porter Square ), and what are today's Cambridge, Main, and Harvard Streets were roads to connect various areas of Cambridge to the bridges.

Mileposts were measured from the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in New York ( one block west of Federal Hall ) and from the old Boston city-line on Washington Street, near the present-day Massachusetts Turnpike.

In Massachusetts, the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike was established in 1803 as a straighter route between Pawtucket, Rhode Island and Roxbury, Massachusetts, mostly west of the Post Road.

Modern toll roads often use a combination of the three, with various entry and exit tolls supplemented by occasional mainline tolls: for example the Massachusetts Turnpike or " MassPike ," the Pennsylvania Turnpike and the New York State Thruway implement both systems in different sections.

In the United States, for instance, the Kansas Turnpike, Ohio Turnpike, Pennsylvania Turnpike, New Jersey Turnpike, most of the Indiana Toll Road, and portions of the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York Thruway, and Florida's Turnpike currently implement closed systems.

This thesis is not confirmed by the extensive study on the causes of the dissolution of the Soviet Union by two prominent economists from the World Bank — William Easterly and Stanley Fisher from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Achebe's lecture prompted a lively debate, reactions at the time ranged from dismay and outrage — Achebe recounted a Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts saying to Achebe after the lecture, " How dare you upset everything we have taught, everything we teach?

The latter became as famous as the best-known fourierist communes ( Brook Farm in Massachusetts & the North American Phalanx in New Jersey ) — in fact, Modern Times became downright notorious ( for “ Free Love ”) & finally foundered under a wave of scandalous publicity.

Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse ( 1761 – 1826 )— who was also a geographer — and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese ( 1766 – 1828 ).

With that improvement, the team was sold to Robert Kraft in January 1994 for a ( then ) record price of $ 200, 000, 000 — an astonishing price considering the Pats had generally been considered a laughing-stock and second rate team, had the worst stadium in the league, and couldn't sell out save for select home games resulting in most games going without television coverage — sports in New England centered on the beloved Bruins, Celtics and Red Sox, not the NFL team orphaned in remote Foxborough, Massachusetts, forty miles outside Boston.

* 5. 007 Mm — Estimated length of Interstate 90 ( Seattle, Washington to Boston, Massachusetts )

On December 13, 1648, the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony had ordered that the Colony's scattered militia companies be organized into North, South and East Regiments — with a goal of increasing the militias ' accountability to the colonial government, efficacy, and responsiveness in conflicts with indigenous Pequot Indians.

The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned — a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths — but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century.

This ordinance accepted the abolishment of all claims to the land west of Pennsylvania and north of the Ohio River by the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, New York, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, and the ordinance established Federal control over all of this land in the Northwest Territory — with the goal that several new states should be created there.

— Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

— Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The decrease was brought about by the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which made the region of Maine — long part of Massachusetts — a free state to balance the pending admission of slave state Missouri.

— Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Although several candidates were openly competing for the 1916 nomination — most prominently conservative Senator Elihu Root of New York and liberal Senator John W. Weeks of Massachusetts — the party's bosses wanted a moderate who would be acceptable to both factions of the party.

— Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

— Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

— Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Immediately after the arrests, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney announced he would return $ 3, 900 in political contributions from employees of Aggregate Industries.

The newly christened DEC received $ 70, 000 from AR & D for a 70 % share of the company, and began operations in a Civil War era textile mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, where plenty of inexpensive manufacturing space was available.

* 1950 – The Great Brinks Robbery – 11 thieves steal more than $ 2 million from an armored car Company's offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1873, a private philanthropist ( John Anderson ) gave Agassiz the island of Penikese, in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts ( south of New Bedford ), and presented him with $ 50, 000 to permanently endow it as a practical school of natural science, especially devoted to the study of marine zoology.

* 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.

On February 28, 2012, SSgA entered into a consent order with the Massachusetts Securities Division " in connection to the Division's investigation into SSgA in its role as the Investment Manager of a $ 1. 65 billion hybrid collateralized debt obligation named Carina CDO, Ltd ." which resulted in a State-imposed fine of $ 5 million for the non-disclosure of certain initial investors taking a short position on portions of the Carina CDO.

That same year, she purchased a home in Northampton for $ 300, and spoke at the first National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, Massachusetts.

* April 2 – Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, 72, mother of Massachusetts Governor Endicott Peabody, is released on $ 450 bond after spending 2 days in a St. Augustine, Florida jail, for participating in an anti-segregation demonstration there.

** Twelve paintings, collectively worth $ 100 to $ 300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts by 2 thieves posing as police officers.

* November 9 – Great Boston Fire of 1872: In Boston, Massachusetts, a large fire begins to burn on Lincoln Street ( the 2-day disaster destroys about of the city, 776 buildings, much of the financial district and causes US $ 60 million in damage ).

** Massachusetts Avenue State Bank, Indianapolis, Indiana, of $ 21, 000 on September 6, 1933 ;

University of Massachusetts Amherst Amherst researchers estimated that from 1970 to 1996, capital flight from 30 sub-Saharan countries totaled $ 187bn, exceeding those nations ' external debts.

In December 2007, the Massachusetts Seaport Advisory Council approved $ 750, 000 in funding for a commuter ferry from Lynn to Boston.

The Massachusetts Seaport Advisory Council provided a $ 1. 3 million grant for Phase 2 of the project in October 2010.

It claimed that Mississippi had the lowest debt ratio in the United States at $ 19. 00 per capita and that Mississippians were declared one-third healthier by " official figures " than people in New York and Massachusetts.

In connection with Oliver Phelps, he purchased from the state of Massachusetts in 1788 pre-emption rights to an immense tract of land in western New York State which straddled the Genesee River, all for the sum of $ 1, 000, 000 ( the Phelps and Gorham Purchase ).

For example, the American state of Massachusetts provides for penalties of up to 20 years in prison, up to $ 50, 000 fine, and restitution for the costs of the disruption.

In reality, while Massachusetts ( where the fictional crime was committed ) does have a law requiring passersby to report a crime in progress, the most stringent punishment the characters could have suffered under those circumstances would have been a $ 500 – 2, 500 fine ( assuming they were prosecuted under state law ); in addition, the phrase " good Samaritan law ," when used in Massachusetts, refers only to the civil law definition and does not have any actual relevance to the law under which Jerry Seinfeld and his friends were prosecuted ( which would be considered a duty to rescue ).

The following spring a government agent sent from the Province of Massachusetts Bay to work on the exchange of prisoners paid his ransom of $ 103 Spanish dollars and $ 60 for Amos Eastman.