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The streets of Boston, Massachusetts may seem as though they were not planned—a common fiction is that they evolved from old cowpaths—but in the 17th century they avoided swamps and marshes and followed shorelines before the original peninsula comprising the city was expanded with landfill in the 19th century. Except for the Back Bay and part of South Boston, Boston has no street grid, which is confusing for nonresident drivers. Roads change names and lose and add lanes seemingly at random, and many drivers are flummoxed by rotaries. Legally, cars already in a rotary have the right of way; that's not the way it always works in reality.

Back in the 1940s urban planners saw the need for improved road transportation, otherwise Boston's development would be limited. Boston Singles | Boston Singles Events, Boston Singles Groups. The state Department of Public Works had the novel idea of building a futuristic 1. 5 mile "Highway in the Sky" through downtown Boston, with enough on- and off-ramps to service local destinations. This elevated John F. Fitzgerald Expressway - more commonly known as the Central Artery - was intended to work in concert with the Inner Belt, that was to circle downtown Boston from the South End and Back Bay across the Charles River to Cambridge and Charlestown. Local traffic would use the elevated Central Artery, while through traffic would use the Inner Belt.