Word: carly
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Officials of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and the Penn-Central Railroad yesterday signed an agreement which will enable the MBTA to vacate its Bennett-Eliot car barns-the site of the library complex. The 12-acre site lies across Boylston St, from Eliot House...
Under the agreement, the MBTA will pay the Penn Central $7 million for a tract of land near South Station in Boston, and will relocate the car barns there...
...MBTA spokesman said yesterday that the car barns should be moved completely out of the library site within two years. The long-awaited construction of portions of the library complex may begin even sooner. depending on the exact plans for the complex, and on which portions of the yards the MBTA vacates first, said I. M. Pei, the New York architect who is designing the library...
...certainly very good news," Pei said of the agreement, which ends years of frustrating attempts to relocate the car barns. The attempts began even before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave the Bennett-Eliot site to the library trustees in January of 1966, with the condition that the MBTA find a new site for its car barns before any work begins on the library construction...
...lucky. Unlike most of the others, I had had my tacky bit of existential drama. It had taken place right out there on Canal Road. And now, here it was five in the morning, and I was forcing my recalcitrant body to sleep in the crowded quarters of the car's front seat. The guy with the bullhorn and Frank's white Rambler-they must serve as my moral equivalent of war. Second-rate substitutes of course, but then, you'll have to admit, these are second-rate times we are living...