Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston City Hall has also provided exhibit space for a "Personal View of the MBTA," photographs by a man with the alliterative name of Vincent Vitale. I can think of no more picturesque subject...Through Monday...
State Street station unremarkable, Haymarket unremarkable and a little seedy looking besides. Curious mixture, of anticipation and dread seizing the occasion. What if it's all some crazy dream of the MBTA? What if the Orange Line has never changed and never will change in the eons to come? Maybe these unremarkable taints will shuttle off to eternity between these unremarkable stations...
...scale bustle and commotion. What's this? The end of the line? Everybody out! What happened to the glory of Wellington? The Promised Land of oak Grove? Next, year, it turns out (or maybe the year after). What a bust. The Old Orange Line want to Sullivan Square. The MBTA lays itself some new track, finds a new stations at Community College (of all places) and calls it an extension. This is the biggest excitement to hit Boston since the Red Sox lost the pendant last year...
Outside the station an elevated bus ramp, a lower level bus ramp, and a large parking lot filled with even more buses, wallowing off in all directions at once. 1-93 thunders right overhead. Mass confusion Large numbers of MBTA--employees standing around shouting advice to on one in particular. As of toady Sullivan Square is a major bus terminus. Every bus that stops draws a crowd of supplicants. Only a few confident enough to climb aboard. High school girls everywhere by the thousands. probably the main source of support for the MBTA. They look like they know where they...
...fare the bus driver asks the passengers as they get off where they had gotten on. Honor system. At Quincy on the Red Line last fall a young man was shot for jumping a turnstile, Not the honor system, Policy on the new Orange Line not yet disclosed by MBTA...