Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Original plans include a shaft--but not for hauling out the dirt. Somewhere along the way, however, somebody in the MBTA or the company changed his mind, Lashman said. in fact, one estimate said 90 per cent of the dirt would come out of the hole...
Unfortunately for the construction firm hired by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which is attempting to dig such a hole at the corner of Mass. Ave and Garfield St.--building a haul shaft is a very dirty and noisy operation...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) voted recently to allocate $43,000 for archaelogical investigations of construction sites adjacent to the route of the MBTA's Red Line extension, including a site uncovered last summer in Harvard Yard...
...funding the studies, the MBTA is fulfilling a legal responsibility to make all attempts to preserve sites, including the Yard, listed in the National Register of Historical Places, Kim Davis, historian for the Massachusetts Historian Commission, said yesterday...
...misunderstanding prevented the commission from realizing the MBTA would be going into Harvard Yard for construction, Davis said...