 B&A service was also cut due to financial problems in the late 1930s and again after World War II; by 1950, Pittsfield was served by eight Boston-Albany round trips per day.The two daily trips to North Adams (which ran as shuttles from the Harlem Line at Chatham or the Water Level Route at Albany in their final years) ended in 1953.The opening of the Massachusetts Turnpike in 1957 and the Berkshire Thruway two years later provided for the first time an auto route to western Massachusetts superior to the narrow and winding Route 20; this effectively decimated long-distance service on the B&A.