Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SEPTEMBER 1977, Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams announced that the Department of Transportation would encourage "good design, art and architecture in transportation facilities and services." Several months later, as part of this policy, the Urban Mass Transit Authority gave the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--the folks who've been trying to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square--$125,000 to develop one of four national pilot projects...
...wrong in fact, that Danehy cajoled and argued and pressured the City Council to join in a citizen group's suit asking for an injunction against the MBTA's construction activities...
Danchy's real worry, however, is not battling his fellow councilors or Harvard officials, but matching blow for blow with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), the agency that wants to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square. As he speaks of it, his manners change and his eyes light...
...already have an adequate surface transportation system in Cambridge," Danehy says for the hundreth time in as many days. The MBTA's chosen route is wrong, their methods of construction are wrong and their effect on Cambridge is wrong, he adds...
...MBTA spokesman John K. Leary Jr. said yesterday the MBTA plans to meet with its construction contractor to suggest revisions in their construction plans. Although an agreement will have to be hammered out, Leary said, the agency will suggest that only 30 to 40 per cent of the dirt come up next door to the Dudley...