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Often termed "Boston's Grand Boulevard" in the Parisian tradition, the street is divided at center by a large median with greenery and statuary from its origin until it reaches Kenmore Square. It is this greenway that links the Public Garden and Boston Common to the rest of the Emerald Necklace . Upon reaching Kenmore, the MBTA Green Line "B" Branch rises above ground and dominates the center of the roadway through the Boston University Charles River Campus to the Newton border where it ends near Boston College . The section in Newton is made up of two roadways separated by a grassy, treelined Median . The south side of the roadway contains the main, two-lane east-west roadway, with a one-way, westbound "carriage road" providing local access on the north side of the median. The roadway, with the median, was originally constructed in Newton in 1895 with the a line of the hotel now occupies most of the site of the ballroom. |
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