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===Cambridge tunnel=== The Red Line was the last of the four original Boston subway lines (the others being the [[Green Line (MBTA)|Green]], [[Orange Line (MBTA)|Orange]], and [[Blue Line (MBTA)|Blue]] Lines, opened in 1897, 1901, and 1904, respectively) to be constructed. Construction of the '''Cambridge tunnel''', connecting [[Harvard Square]] to Boston, was delayed by a dispute over the number of intermediate stations to be built along the new line. Cambridge residents, led by Mayor Wardwell, wanted at least five stations built along the line, while suburbanites interested in faster through travel argued for only a single intermediate station, at Central Square. The contending groups finally compromised on two intermediate stations, at Central and Kendall Squares, allowing construction to start in 1909.{{explain|date=May 2016}}<ref name="Cudahy">{{cite book|last1=Cudahy|first1=Brian J.|title=Change at Park Street Under: The Story of Boston's Subways|date=1972|publisher=Stephen Greene Press|location=Brattleboro, Vermont, US|isbn=0-8289-0173-2|url=https://archive.org/details/changeatparkstre00cuda}}</ref>{{rp|41}} The section from [[Harvard (MBTA station)|Harvard]] (and new maintenance facilities at [[Eliot Yard]]) to [[Park Street station (MBTA)|Park Street]] was opened by the [[Boston Elevated Railway]] (BERy) on March 23, 1912. At Harvard, a [[prepayment station]] provided easy transfer to streetcars routed through what is now the [[Harvard bus tunnel]]. From Harvard, the Cambridge tunnel traveled beneath [[Massachusetts Avenue (metropolitan Boston)|Massachusetts Avenue]] to [[Central (MBTA station)|Central Square station]]. It then continued under Mass. Ave until [[Main Street (Cambridge)|Main Street]], which it followed to reach [[Kendall/MIT (MBTA station)|Kendall]] station. The underground line then rose onto the [[Longfellow Bridge]], using a central right-of-way which had been reserved during the bridge's 1900β1906 construction. On the Boston side, the line briefly became an [[Rapid transit|elevated railway]], as vehicle lanes descended beneath it to [[Charles Circle (Boston)|Charles Circle]]; the tracks then immediately entered a tunnel beneath [[Beacon Hill, Boston|Beacon Hill]], leading to new lower-level platforms at Park Street Under. Charles Station (now [[Charles/MGH (MBTA station)|Charles/MGH]]) was added above the traffic circle in 1932.
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