America's first subway, a record 43.2-million-passenger airport under a color-shifting red roof, a cruise port that doubled in five years and the summer the Revolution turned 250 — Boston's hubs are older than the country's and busier than ever.
Boston invented American urban rail in 1897 and has spent 130 years perfecting the art of the transfer: Logan Airport sits ten minutes from its cruise terminal, the free Silver Line runs from the runway to the rail hall, and South Station feeds the Northeast Corridor while the Downeaster waits for its tunnel a mile north.
The eight studies in this hub walk the whole circuit: the Back Bay–Seaport hotel split, Terminal E's record international year, the two stations and the North–South Rail Link, Flynn Cruiseport's $100 million rebuild, the T's unbeatable visitor arithmetic, the 41-million-guest market, and where $16.8 billion in spending concentrates.
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