Transportation in Boston includes roadway,subway,regional rail,air,and sea options for passenger and freight transit in Boston,Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) operates the Port of Boston,which includes a container shipping facility in South Boston,and Logan International Airport,in East Boston. The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) operates bus,subway,short-distance rail,and water ferry passenger services throughout the city and region. Amtrak operates passenger rail service to and from major Northeastern cities,and a major bus terminal at South Station is served by varied intercity bus companies. The city is bisected by major highways I-90 and I-93,the intersection of which has undergone a major renovation,nicknamed the Big Dig.
General Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport —also known as Boston Logan International Airport —is an international airport located mostly in East Boston and partially in Winthrop,Massachusetts. Covering 2,384 acres (965 ha),it has six runways and four passenger terminals,and employs an estimated 16,000 people. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems in which it is categorized as a large hub primary commercial service facility.
John Walter Olver was an American politician and chemist who was the U.S. representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district from 1991 to 2013. Raised on a farm in Pennsylvania,Olver graduated from college at the age of 18 and went on to earn a PhD in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and later taught chemistry at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for eight years.
Stephen Francis Lynch is an American businessman,attorney and politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. A Democrat,he represents Massachusetts's 8th congressional district,which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of its southern suburbs. Lynch was previously an ironworker and lawyer,and served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court.
Thomas Michael "Tom" Finneran,is a radio talk host and former Massachusetts Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from April 1996 to September 2004. He represented the district that included parts of the Boston neighborhoods of Dorchester,Mattapan and Hyde Park as well as parts of the town of Milton for 26 years.
Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) is the port authority for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It owns and operates three airports,Logan International Airport,Hanscom Field,and Worcester Regional Airport,and public terminals in the Port of Boston.
Deval Laurdine Patrick is an American politician who served as the 71st governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2015. He was the first African-American Governor of Massachusetts and the first Democratic governor of the state since Michael Dukakis left office in 1991. Patrick served from 1994 to 1997 as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division under President Bill Clinton. He was briefly a candidate for President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Suffolk University Law School is the private,non-sectarian law school of Suffolk University located in downtown Boston,across the street from the Boston Common and the Freedom Trail,two blocks from the Massachusetts State House,and a short walk to the financial district. Suffolk Law was founded in 1906 by Gleason Archer Sr. to provide a legal education for those who traditionally lacked the opportunity to study law because of socio-economic or racial discrimination.
Scott Philip Brown is an American diplomat,attorney,and politician who served as the United States ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa. He is a former United States senator from Massachusetts (2010–2013),and also was the 2014 Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Hampshire. Before his Senate tenure,Brown served as a member of the Massachusetts General Court,first in the State House of Representatives (1998–2004) and then in the State Senate (2004–2010).
The John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center is a convention center located in Boston,Massachusetts. It was built in 1988 from a design by architects Kallmann,McKinnell &Wood. It replaced the John B. Hynes Memorial Auditorium,also a convention center,built in 1963 during the Massachusetts Turnpike expansion from Route 128 to the Central Artery,which was regarded as "ungainly". The 1988 design "attempted to relate in scale and materials to its Back Bay setting,adopting granite and setbacks. The severe gray interior is reminiscent of an early 20th-century German railroad station". The Center is named after former Boston mayor John Hynes.
John Forbes Kerry is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat who served as the 68th United States secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 in the administration of Barack Obama. A member of the Forbes family and of the Democratic Party,he previously represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1985 to 2013 and later served as the first U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate from 2021 to 2024. Kerry was the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in the 2004 election,losing to then-incumbent president George W. Bush.
Timothy Patrick Murray is an American lawyer and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 71st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2013,when he resigned to become the head of the Worcester Regional Chamber of Commerce. Murray had previously served as a member of Worcester City Council from 1998 to 2007 and as the mayor of Worcester from 2002 to 2007.
Saint Francis House is a nonprofit,nonsectarian,daytime shelter,primarily for the homeless,located in downtown Boston,Massachusetts,and founded in the early 1980s. It is the largest daytime shelter in New England and serves as an early model of such a center.
Timothy Christian Senior is an American Catholic prelate who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Harrisburg in Pennsylvania since 2023. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania from 2009 to 2023,as well as rector and later chancellor of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Pennsylvania.
John F. Keenan is a member of the Massachusetts State Senate for the Norfolk and Plymouth district.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were held on Tuesday,November 6,2012,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Massachusetts,a loss of one seat following the 2010 census,for service in the 113th Congress from January 3,2013,to January 3,2015. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a quadrennial presidential election. The candidate elected in each of the state's congressional districts was a member the Democratic Party.
Back Bay station is an intermodal passenger station in Boston,Massachusetts. It is located just south of Copley Square in Boston's Back Bay and South End neighborhoods. It serves MBTA Commuter Rail and MBTA subway routes,and also serves as a secondary Amtrak intercity rail station for Boston. The present building,designed by Kallmann McKinnell &Wood,opened in 1987. It replaced the New Haven Railroad's older Back Bay station –which opened in 1928 as a replacement for an 1899-built station –as well as the New York Central's Huntington Avenue and Trinity Place stations which had been demolished in 1964.
James "Jim" Cantwell is an American politician and lawyer from Massachusetts. A Democrat,Cantwell is the State Director for United States Senator Ed Markey. Cantwell previously served as the Massachusetts State Representative for the 4th Plymouth district from 2008 to 2018. The district encompassed Marshfield and precincts 1,2,4,5,&6 of Scituate.
Francisco Urena is a Dominican-born American government official and former Marine who served as the Massachusetts Secretary of Veterans' Affairs and previously served as the Veterans' Services Officer for the cities of Boston and Lawrence,Massachusetts.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections in Massachusetts were held on November 3,2020,to elect the nine U.S. representatives from the state of Massachusetts,one from each of the state's nine congressional districts. The elections coincided with the 2020 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on September 1.
