Callahan Tunnel
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The Lieutenant William F. Callahan Jr. Tunnel is a road tunnel under Boston Harbor between the North End and East Boston. It carries northbound Massachusetts Route 1A, forming a one-way pair with the
The downtown Boston entrance to the tunnel
William F. Callahan
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William Francis Callahan was a Massachusetts civil servant who served as Commissioner of Public Works and Chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority from 1952 until his death in 1964. Callahan p
Callahan Tunnel
…complement the Sumner Tunnel. The under-construction tunnel had been named in February 1960 after William F. Callahan Jr. – the son of Turnpike chairman William F. Callahan – who was killed in Italy during World War II. A toll plaza was located at the East Boston end of the tunnel. On May 2, 1983, one-way tolling was…
Callahan in the 1960s