Word: mbta
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...City Council voted last month to join the Red Line Alert's injunction suit--now pending in federal distrcit court--despite a letter from MBTA chairman Robert Kiley warning that court battles might jeopardize nearly half a billion dollars in UMTA funds earmarked for the project...
...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) will provide funds for the analysis of artifacts recovered last August from excavations in Harvard Yard by staff members from the Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), Charles Steward, Environmental Coordinator of the MBTA Red Line extension project said yesterday...
Roberts said that now the ICA is waiting for funds which they requested of the MBTA after the salvage operation for laboratory and historical analysis of the artifacts. He added he hopes to see the analysis completed over the winter moths, if the funds are approved in the coming weeks...
Clearly, Cambridge has a lot to complain about. The MBTA's practices over the past few years in Cambridge have been questionable at best. Specifically, the community has been misled as to the types of construction the MBTA will use, the overall impact on Mass. Ave. businesses and traffic patterns and the planned use of various public facilities...
RECENTLY, the Cambridge City Council voted to join a citizen group's suit demanding an injunction against extension of the Red Line through Harvard Square by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA). The council's vote, indicative of the growing sense of frustration felt by some Cambridge leaders, residents and businessmen, appears to be a well-directed step to ensure that citizens' views are not diregarded in the extension process...