Boston Transportation Planning Review

The major contractors involved were Alan M. Voorhees Company (Virginia), project manager; Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (New York City), architect; ESL Incorporated (California), air quality and acoustics.

[1] The first director of the program reporting to the Governor was Alan Altshuler; the project manager was Walter Hansen.

Comprehensive re-evaluation of areawide transportation plans was a major theme in the last quarter of the twentieth century for large US cities.

Scope of the BTPR studies included evaluation and upgrading of all four MBTA mass transit rail lines and examination of every major highway and arterial project in the region.

The following exemplify some of the principal study elements of the Boston Transportation Planning Review: The following major technologies were utilized in the BTPR: Weiner, Edward.

The Big Dig's Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge over the Charles River , in early phases of construction.
Downtown Boston from Boston Harbor
Blue Line train at the rebuilt Logan Airport station.
Longfellow Bridge across the Charles River , with two MBTA Red Line trains.