Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disagreement between MBTA management and the Carmen's Union began after a motorman wrote a letter to MBTA officials and three area newspapers saying that an error in a computerized train control system had nearly led him to run into another train parked in Harvard station...
...duties was digging holes and then moving them. It must have been an activity that inspired a certain existential awareness of the limited significance of human endeavour- probably permanently imprinting the enlisted man's psyche in the process. Apparently, some of the individuals thus psychologically disfigured joined the MBTA following military service and conceived the idea of the Harvard Square extension of the Red Line...
Admittedly, some of the proceedings, though interesting, often suffered form partially obstructed views and were occasionally lacking in scale and range. The present excavation, however, entirely compensates for any prior errors or oversights and is, without excessive risk of hyperbole, the MBTA apotheosis...
...Brighton teenager died after a commuter train hit him Monday at the Central Square MBTA station, Cambridge police said...
...Peter Sheinfeld, vice-chairman of the Cambridge Transportation Forum, said the solution to the delays was a "simple, mundane procedure"--all the MBTA has to do, he said, is to turn the trains around correctly...