Word: bus
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Plans to cut two bus routes that run from Harvard Square to North Cambridge and Watertown could inconvenience the elderly and rushhour commuters, neighborhood leaders said this week...
...Elderly people who have difficulty with stairs prefer that bus because if they are going to Mt. Auburn Hospital they don't have to change buses," said Charles Bahne, a member of the Cambridge-based Association for Public Transportation. "A lot of people who are older find steps an obstruction, especially the steps on a bus because they're higher than normal ones...
...addition, one route being cut services Huron Towers, an apartment building with a high elderly population. The building is about a half-mile away from other bus routes, Bahne said...
...council also overwhelmingly voted to provide overnight bus service to the Harvard/Yale football game in New Haven, Conn., next month, at a price to be determined...
Ralph David Abernathy was Martin Luther King Jr.'s closest adviser from the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott that sparked the civil rights movement to the Memphis motel where King was slain. He cradled the dying King in his arms and succeeded him as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Now Abernathy, 63, who was forced out as SCLC's president in 1977, has spilled the most intimate secrets to which his close association made him privy in his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down...