Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perini Corporation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) contractor for tunnel construction, plans to dig an 80 by 40-ft, hole, known as a "haul shaft," at the corner of Garfield St. and Mass. Ave. Cambridge residents have turned long-standing complaints about this shaft into affidavits for the suit as part of its new focus...
...suit charges the MBTA with substantially deviating from the original Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which had not considered the removal of 90 per cent of the dirt for the Harvard-Porter Square tunnel from the hole on Garfield St. The suit demands that the MBTA prepare a new report...
...citizens filing the suit charge the MBTA, the Urban Mass Transportation Authority (which allocated nearly half a billion dollars for the extension) and the contractors with violating the National Environmental Policy Act, the Department of Transportation Act and the Urban Mass Transportation...
Joseph Elcock, general counsel for the MBTA, said Monday he has not yet been served to appear in court. "To my knowledge, we are complying with the EIS," Elcock said...
Artists on the Line at Carpenter Center is the preliminary, eclectic and somewhat confusing result of that grant. In an age of decaying airports and decrepit bus terminals, the painless improvement of passengers' "spatial experience" is a sound idea. Unfortunately, the MBTA seems to have about as much luck commissioning art work for its stations as it does securing permission to build those stations...