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Kennedy Plaza (formally City Hall Park, formally Exchange Terrace/ Exchange Place) is a rectangular shaped central plaza and the geographic center of the downtown Providence, Rhode Island area, it is situated between Providence City Hall and the Providence Federal Building. Following a traditional colonial pattern, the Plaza has served as a transportation hub since 1847.〔http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/08/ownership-and-identity-in-kennedy-plaza.html〕 Today, Kennedy Plaza is bounded by Exchange Street ("Little Wall St."〔http://www.provlib.org/post-card-collection/exchange-place-little-wall-street〕) on the northeast, Fulton Street on the southeast, Dorrance Street on the southwest, and Washington Street on the northwest. Surrounding the Plaza are Burnside Park, the Bank of America skating center, and the mobile Haven Brothers Diner which has been driven into the Plaza and parked next to City Hall nightly since 1893. On the east edge of the plaza sit the three buildings - One Financial Plaza; 50 Kennedy Plaza; Bank of America Building (Providence) - that comprise the famous Providence skyline. == Transportation hub== The Plaza has been the traditional transportation hub for much of its history, beginning with Pedestrian traffic and evolving into Horse and buggy to modern auto-cars. Kennedy Plaza serves as the modern nexus of the state's public conventional-bus and trolley-replica bus transit services operated by Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA), as well as a departure point for Peter Pan and Greyhound bus lines. Greater Attleboro Taunton Regional Transit Authority (GATRA) commuter bus service between Taunton, Massachusetts and Providence also operates out of the Plaza in the morning and evening. Through RIPTA alone Kennedy Plaza serves over 69,000 people a day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority ) 25,296,132 boardings / 365 days = 69,304 daily.〕 During WWII, the United Electric Railway and The Narragansett Electric company(owned by Marsden J. Perry) put "trackless trolleys" into service by installing electric buses in 1943.〔electric buses〕 Employing what was then known as a “WAIT” station in the form of a loop, U.E.R buses served North Main St to Pawtucket and through the East Side tunnel to Thayer, Waterman, Angell, Hope, and Elmgrove Streets. As federal funds became available in the late 1970s for automobile-free zones, all local bus-waiting areas were consolidated to Kennedy Plaza. 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「Kennedy Plaza」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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