Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tracks carried their last car, and the construction crew worked feverishly over the Labor Day weekend, drilling and hammering past midnight, and pulling in double and triple overtime pay. (Authority officials picked the weekend to make the transition, when commuter use would be relatively light. In the interim, the MBTA provided free bus rides to and from Kendall Square...
...inaugural run came close to being indefinitely delayed. A week before the scheduled change-over, the state revoked a 1978 waver which would have allowed the new station to open before making it accessible to the handicapped. After two hectic days of negotiations, the MBTA worked out a compromise: the Authority now offers a shuttle bus service. Officials estimate about two people a day will...
...dominates the heart of the district, along the southwestern and western walls of the Yard. To the tune of $72 million, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority is extending the Red Line of the subway system past Harvard (previously the end of the line) to Alewife. Along the way, the MBTA is re-land-scaping the Central area of the Square, widening sidewalks, setting up modern art displays, and planting trees where no green life existed before. But until the expected completion date of late 1984, denizens must continue to battle heavily congested traffic, limited pedestrian space, as well as noise...
July 26, 1978--University archaeologists uncovered colonial artifacts in the MBTA digs in the Yard...
Some analysts have predicted that a large number of White votes could go to David I. Finnegan, former school committee chairman and radio talk show host, or former MBTA chief Robert R. Kiley, two candidates who have been labelled conservative by the local media. Both candidates, who would appear to be nearest to the mayor on the political spectrum, have, however, been playing down this perception in interviews and public appearances...