Word: mbta
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Holway and Sullivan have voiced emphases closer to the political center. Holway has called for "more compassionate government"--and more stringent criminal sentencing. Sullivan's recent campaign announcement called on business and industry to augment social programs. She has also emphasized the housing and MBTA reform as issues to be addressed. Holway called Sullivan "a formidable opponent," rating White's candidacy as less of a challenge to his campaign...
...project, which will last 18 months, differs from other Boston-sponsored art programs in its diversity and short duration, according to MBTA officials. Normally, artwork done for the city is of durable material, capable of lasting 75 years...
Calling the subway arts program a "unique opportunity" for aspiring local artists, Mayes said the high visibility and scope of creations contributes to the popularity of Arts on the Line. "It's extraordinarily generous of [the MBTA] to do this," Mayes said yesterday...
...director of Arts on the Line, Pallace Lombardi, said that good results in the past are the reason for the MBTA's expansion of art projects. "People are very responsive to the art, as the project has shown over the past eight years [during which her group was in charge of the art]," Lombardi said...
...knows that they're causing disruption, and would like to make it more tolerable," Lombardi said. She added that MBTA's effort is "the positive creation of a very wonderful thing...