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Boston's subway was the first in the United States. The original sections of subway, forming the Tremont Street Subway, the core of the precursor to the Green Line, opened in 1897 and 1898, and were built by the Boston Elevated Railway to take streetcars from many points off downtown streets.
Today, the subway system has three rapid transit lines — the Red, Orange and Blue Lines — and two streetcar/light rail lines — the Green Line and the Ashmont-Mattapan High Speed Line (considered part of the Red Line). All four colored lines meet downtown at a square configuration, and the Orange and Green Lines (which run parallel) meet directly at two stations. The Red Line has two branches in the south — Ashmont and Braintree, named after their terminal stations — and the Green Line has four branches in the west — "B" (Boston College), "C" (Cleveland Circle), "D" (Riverside) and "E" (Heath Street). The "A" Branch formerly went to Watertown, filling in the pattern, which increases from north to south, and the "E" Branch formerly continued beyond Heath Street to Arborway. The colors were assigned on August 26, 1965, and now serve as the primary identifier for the lines, after the 1964 reorganization of the MTA into the MBTA.
The Orange Line is so named because it used to run down Orange Street (now lower Washington Street), the Green Line is named because it runs adjacent to parts of the Emerald Necklace, the Blue line is named because it runs under Boston Harbor and the Red Line is named because it runs through Cambridge, Massachusetts where Harvard University (whose school color is Crimson) is located.
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