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.

* Massachusetts Turnpike — $ 1, 600, 000 per mile

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.

His credulity is perhaps best illustrated in his introduction to The Emancipation Of Massachusetts, which purports to examine the trials of Moses and to draw a parallel between the leader of the Israelite exodus from Egypt and the leadership of the Puritan clergy in colonial New England.

In sixteen states, the fiscal year ending of the cities ( June 30 ) is the same as that of the state: Alaska, Arizona, California, Delaware, Massachusetts, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Hawaii ).

Mr. Devey is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the United States Naval Academy Post-Graduate School specializing in electronic engineering.

Its original appearance is shown in an engraving published in the `` Massachusetts Magazine '' in May 1793, which is reproduced herewith ( Fig. 1 ).

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

-- A wave of public resentment against corruption in government is rising in Massachusetts.

A reader of the Boston newspapers can hardly escape the impression that petty chicanery, or worse, is the norm in Massachusetts public life.

* 1635 – The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

New England is a Northeastern region of the United States, including the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

The ship landed in 1630 and the Massachusetts Bay Colony was established at what is now Boston, Massachusetts.

* 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

" The town name is a play on Hyannisport, Massachusetts, where a number of the Kennedy clan have lived.

Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

That is larger by than the combined areas of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.

The Boston Herald is a daily newspaper whose primary market is Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and its surrounding area.

In the United States, the earliest known cross-stitch sampler is currently housed at Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth, Massachusetts .< ref >

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area.

Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent universities, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Cambridge is located in eastern Massachusetts, bordered by:

* Central Square, formed by the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Prospect Street, and Western Avenue, is well known for its wide variety of ethnic restaurants.

Lafayette Square, formed by the junction of Massachusetts Avenue, Columbia Street, Sidney Street, and Main Street, is considered part of the Central Square area.

Throughout most of the East Coast of the United States, E-ZPass ( operated under the brands I-Pass in Illinois, i-Zoom in Indiana, and Fast Lane in Massachusetts ) is accepted on almost all toll roads.

Under a plan to save state funds, the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles ( MRMV ) announced plans to close eleven of its branches in leased locations and move the operations into facilities owned by MassHighway and Massachusetts Turnpike Authority located in toll plazas, visitor centers and offices.

From Exit 1, in West Stockbridge, to Exit 14 / 15 ( Route 128 / I-95 ), in Weston, the Massachusetts Turnpike is a closed-system toll road, using long-distance tickets obtained once by a motorist on entrance, and surrendered on exit, at toll gates.

From Exit 14 / 15 to its eastern end in East Boston ( in other words, east of the toll barrier residing between Exits 14 and 15 ), the Massachusetts Turnpike is an open-system toll road.

After protests from Western Massachusetts residents that their toll money was funding the Big Dig, a Boston highway project, tolls were removed on a western portion of the freeway in July 1996: no toll is charged for passenger-vehicle travel between Springfield ( Exit 6, Interstate 291 ) and the New York ( Exit 1, West Stockbridge ) border in either direction.

On October 19, 2006, members of the Massachusetts Legislature Transportation Committee were quoted in The Boston Globe as saying that the Governor's actions may require state law to be amended for the toll removal to happen.

A typical Fast Lane (" EZPass Accepted ") toll booth in Massachusetts.

Along with Route 9 and U. S. Route 20 to the south, these highways are the main alternatives to the Massachusetts Turnpike / I-90 toll highway.

On November 14, 2008, the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority voted in favor of a proposed toll hike which would double the toll to $ 7. 00 for non-commercial vehicles.

Fast Lane is the RFID electronic toll collection system used in Massachusetts.

The original electronic toll collection system in Massachusetts was called MassPass and was installed at the Ted Williams Tunnel.

Significantly, both courts based their rulings on the fact that Massachusetts transponders are available on equal terms to in-state and out-of-state residents and that anyone is allowed to have a transponder from more than one state at a time, choosing which transponder to use in each toll transaction to obtain the cheaper rate.

Located on what is now Route 18 about halfway between Boston and New Bedford, Massachusetts, it was a place where passengers historically paid a toll, changed horses, and ate home-cooked meals.

The Frederick E. Everett Turnpike, also called the Central New Hampshire Turnpike, is a toll road in New Hampshire, USA, running from the Massachusetts border at Nashua north to Concord.

For many years it was believed that the house was built by Mathew Cradock, one of 35 founding members of the Massachusetts Bay Company who reputedly owned the first wooden toll bridge in America ( 1632 ), however, Cradock only owned the land and never actually lived or even visited America.