Word: mbta
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Until last spring the Square was better known as "the Hole." The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) had ripped up most of Harvard's epicenter to construct a $72 million extension of the subway's Red Line past Harvard (previously the end of the line...
Things are back to normal now. In fact, the MBTA has left the Square in better shape than it found it. New landscaping, widened brick sidewalks, and a new home for the Square's bustling focal point, Out of Town News, now grace the Coop's front yard. A pink and blue Disneyland-style information booth, which opened in June, is the latest addition to the spiffed-up Square...
...entirely out of luck, however. The accommodating MBTA is providing shuttle bus service when the 'T' is off-limits...
After congratulatory speeches and much ribbon-cutting, these four stations opened this past spring as part of the 3.2 mile MBTA northwest extension costing $574 million...
Harvard has started recruiting clerical workers with advertisements on MBTA subways, a move Steiner calls the product of a tight Boston labor market and not a high turnover rate. In conjunction with an independent opinion research company, the University in April sent a 27-page survey to clerical and technical workers querying attitudes on issues like wages, sexual harrassment and Massachusetts Hall administrators. Harvard officials say the poll was an effort to improve working conditions, but union organizers quickly called it a tool to test the degree of their activity among workers. A chief UAW beef is the absence...