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As with many large cities, a large number of Boston-area streetcar lines once existed. However, only a few remain, namely the four branches of the Green Line and the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line, with only one (the Green Line "E" Branch) running regular service on an undivided street. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) was formed on August 3, 1964, taking over operations from the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). The MTA itself was formed in 1947 to take over operations of the private Boston Elevated Railway (BERy), which ran rapid transit, streetcars, and buses in the Boston area. In 1936, the BERy assigned numbers to its routes for map use, but route numbers were not used on buses until the late 1960s (when the colors were assigned to the remaining rail lines). () Additionally, the numbers were only kept the same on and after the 1942 revision of the map; before that they were changed with each new version. A few routes were renumbered around 1967, but most routes have kept their original numbers. Routes were numbered roughly clockwise from South Boston to East Boston. This is a table of when each streetcar line was converted to trackless trolley or bus. Only information post-1940 is complete. ==Boston-area streetcar lines/old== As in many large cities, a large number of streetcar lines once existed in Boston, Massachusetts, USA and its inner suburbs. Only a few remain, namely the four branches of the Green Line and the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line, with only one (the Green Line E branch) running regular service on an undivided street. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) was formed on August 3, 1964, taking over operations from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). At that time, only the following streetcar and rapid transit lines still operated: *1 Harvard-Ashmont, renamed the Red Line on August 26, 1965 *2 Everett-Forest Hills, renamed the Orange Line on August 26, 1965 *3 Wonderland-Bowdoin, renamed the Blue Line on August 26, 1965 *4 Riverside-Lechmere, renamed the Green Line "D" Branch on August 26, 1965 *28 Mattapan-Ashmont, renamed the Red Line's Mattapan line (now the Ashmont–Mattapan High Speed Line) on August 26, 1965 *39 Arborway-Park Street, renamed the Green Line "E" Branch on August 26, 1965 *57 Heath Street-North Station, renamed the Green Line "E" Branch (short-turn trips) on August 26, 1965 *61 Cleveland Circle-North Station, renamed the Green Line "C" Branch on August 26, 1965 *62 Boston College-Government Center, renamed the Green Line "B" Branch on August 26, 1965 *69 Watertown-Park Street, renamed the Green Line "A" Branch on August 26, 1965 Since then, Green Line "E" service to Arborway has been replaced by the 39 bus, and Green Line "A" service has been replaced by the 57 bus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boston-area streetcar lines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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