Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) board of directors has already approved the $71.3 million bid, submitted by the Perini Corporation of Framingham, Mass. The Urban Mass Transportation Authority (UMTA) must finalize the award of the federally-funded contract...
Brewer added that Harvard acquired the building because of the possible effects construction of the MBTA Red Line extension might have on University housing near Harvard Square...
...legal issue centers on an environmental impact statement (EIS) which was prepared when the MBTA planned to extend the Red Line to Rte. 128. The MBTA claims that this impact statement can be applied to its current extension project, even though the line is planned to go only as far as the Alewife Brook Parkway...
...citizens charge the MBTA with violating three federal statutes in attempting to apply the old statement to the new project. The MBTA, on the other hand, argues that any delays in construction--which a court battle necessarily implies--will mean losses of $3 million a month and jeopardize nearly half billion dollars in federal funds earmarked for the extension project...
...time for the MBTA to stop making dire predictions and launch a supplementary EIS on the changed extension plans before a federal district court orders it to do so. This process would allow Cambridge residents and businessmen to have imput into the project while helping to insure that the extension will run smoothly if hte project is allowed to begin. Regardless of the outcome of the EIS--whether the extension is found to be environmentally safe or not--the interests of the community should be met in the process...