Regardless, the Green Line is the setting for my tale. In my younger days, one or two years ago, I ventured into Newbury Street, Boston's overpriced, overtrafficked, overrated boutique street. I did this via the Green Line, for I was not yet even close to ready to maneuver the impossible lanes of Boston by car. And so, there I was, on a hot, sweaty summer afternoon, and the train immediately filled with hot, sweaty summer afternoon people. So many, in fact, that the crowd took on the properties of a liquid, flowing into every nook and rusting cranny.
One of these nooks was particularly unsafe, on the steps going up from the door (did I mention that the trains are elevated, trolley-style?). And this nook was filled by a certain young lady possessing, if not beauty, a certain rough-hewed Asian grace. She spoke not a single word of the English tongue, as far as I could tell. And her hands found themselves right along the doorway, right between the crack which would soon jump into motion as the accordian closed.
I, meanwhile, a lucky one, was squarely in the middle of the train, between two doors, oblivious to the coming calamity. The doors closed, and the train began to move; all routine. But there was a certain shriek that pierced the air. Was there trouble along the rails? Were the brakes frantically trying to halt the metal monstrosity before certain doom befell us all?
I looked over, given my vantage point, and saw the nature of this unearthly howl; a lady, screaming in a voice that had no timbre in the western world; her arm, attached to her hand, attached to her fingers, all of which were attached, in a rudimentary vise grip, to the door; Her fingers were all crushed in the grip of the accordian. My stomach fell.
And then I fell; the crowd surged, buckled, jumped, jived. Within a moment I was upside-down, about to be trampled, my life flashing before my eyes. Quickly, I grabbed a shoulder, a waist, and yanked myself up. I looked over again at the source of it. I saw a man, an old man, who looked exactly, miraculously like Colonel Sanders, pull the emergency brake. The brakes came on, and the train screeched to a stop. The doors opened, and the Colonel took the ladie's hand in his, protecting the twisted fingers from further harm.
The scene was over. The train hadn't even left the station. Within a minute, the now-whimpering lady was escorted from the train by an officer of the MBTA, the doors were shut, and the Green Line chugged back into motion. All that remained was an old gentleman dressed in a white suit to tell of the disaster.
I, though, will never forget that scream, not as long as I live.
Map of the Boston Green Line:
Lechmere (North end of the D(*), E lines) | Science Park | North Station ( Commuter Rail and Orange Line ) | Haymarket ( Orange Line ) | Government Center ( Blue Line ; North end of B, C lines | and some D trains (*) ) Park Street ( Red Line ) | Boylston | Arlington | Copley (E line branches off here) | +----------------------------------+ B, C, D lines | | E line Hynes/ICA Prudential | | Kenmore (lines split) Symphony | | +-----------------+-----------------+ Northeastern B | C | | D | Blandford St. St. Mary's St. Fenway Museum of Fine Arts | | | | B. U. East Hawes St. Longwood Longwood Medical Area | | | | B. U. Central Kent St. Brookline Village Brigham Circle | | | | B. U. West St. Paul St. Brookline Hills Fenwood Rd. | | | | St. Paul St. Coolidge Corner Beaconsfield Mission Park | | | | Pleasant St. Summit Ave. Reservoir Riverway | | | | Babcock St. Brandon Hall Chestnut Hill Back of the Hill | | | | Packards Corner Fairbanks St. Newton Center Heath Street | | | (End of E line) Fordham Rd. Washington Sq. Newton Highlands | | | Harvard Ave. Tappan St. Eliot | | | Griggs St. Dean Rd. Waban | | | Allston St. Englewood Ave. Woodland | | | Warren St. Cleveland Circle Riverside | (End of C line) (End of D line) Summit Ave. | Washington St. | Mt. Hood Rd. | Sutherland Rd. | Chiswick Rd. | Chestnut Hill Ave. | South St. | Greycliff Rd. | Boston College (End of B line)
The Green line is part subway, part streetcar, and part el (elevated train). The tracks leap out of the ground north of Haymarket to form the start of the elevated section at North Station, and continue elevated before returning to ground level across the Charles River at Lechmere. The B/C/D/E lines run as streetcars for most of the length after the splits.
The MBTA has committed to reopening the Jamaica Plain portion of the Green Line E, which continues on from Heath Street down to the Arborway where it meets up with the end of the Orange Line at Forest Hills.
There used to be an A Line which split off from the B Line a bit past the Kenmore split, but it closed in 1969, originally "temporarily", but the MBTA has finally, recently, started removing the tracks. This route is now served by buses.
There is also a long-standing desire by the MBTA to extend the north end of the green line on to Tufts University in Somerville. This plan got a boost recently from a developer who plans to renovate the old rail yard and other abandoned property north of the Lechmere station, and also pay for a renovation and part of the extension of the Green Line. But I'm not counting on anything happening here any time soon.
Stations, north to south:
From here you can... go back to the Metro project.
In reference to Israel, the Green Line is the popular name for what is more correctly known as the "1949 Armistice Line".
The original borders of the state of Israel were determined by the 1947 United Nations partition plan that divided the British Palestine Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state. However, following the 1948 War of Independence, Israel annexed a great deal of the territory that had been allocated for an Arab state. The remaining territory was annexed by Jordan and Egypt.
The borders negotiated at the end of the War of Independence form the 1949 Armistice Line. All the territory within this "Green Line" is generally acknowledged by all parties to be "Israel proper", meaning that it is no longer disputed.
In 1967, during a war with Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, Israel conquered additional territory, consisting of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank of the Jordan River. This territory, outside the "Green Line", is disputed and has never been considered by the international community as a legitimate part of Israel.
The Sinai peninsula was returned to Egyptian control in 1978, as a condition of the Camp David Accords. The West Bank and Gaza continue to be a focus of negotiation in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Syria has stipulated that unconditional return of the Golan Heights is a condition for the beginning of peace negotiations, so little progress has been made in that direction.
The CTA's Green Line connects Chicago's West Side with the loop and the South Side.
The Green Line runs between 4 am and 1 am Monday through Saturday, and between 7 am and 1 am on Sundays and Holidays. Passengers needing to use the line at times when it is not in service can use the Forest Park branch of the Blue Line, which parallels the Lake Street Elevated, or the Red Line to 95th-Dan Ryan, which parallels the South Side Elevated. Both lines run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Below is a text map of the Orange Line's route. Please keep in mind that it is not to scale. Traffic is two-way in all areas of the map. North is up. Stations are marked with either an o or a (T). The latter represents a free transfer station. Mouse-over the (T) to see which lines you can transfer to at that station. The one exception to this is King Drive, which is marked with a *; this station only serves inbound trains (trains going to the loop/Harlem-Lake).
C O N C R S A . Purple Line north to Linden I E L . D C P R I A C . Brown Line north to Kimball H O G A E L C U V K F S L . A A E U N A I L A E O H I . S R K L S T R C A T D R L N . T L A T R M E S O Z N A T . A E P N I A I R K R I I N O . T M K D N L E O I Y E A D N . E . o-o-o-o-o-o-o--o-o-o--o---o--o--+-(T)(T)-+ Lake Street Elevated . | . C o RANDOLPH Loop Elevated . L | . A o MONROE Brown, Purple, . R | and Orange Lines . K (T) ADAMS . | +........+ | Green and Orange Lines | | (T) ROOSEVELT/WABASH | .+ . | Orange Line. o 35th-BRONZEVILLE-IIT south to Midway. \ . o Indiana \ o 43rd | South Side o 47th Elevated | o 51st | GARFIELD o | ---+ Ashland Branch / | EAST 63rd/COTTAGE GROVE o--o--- +-*--o ASHLAND/63rd East 63rd Branch H K A I L N S G T E D D R
Things to note:
Credit to: http://www.transitchicago.com, http://www.chicago-l.org, http://www.pacebus.com, personal knowledge.
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