Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many challenge King's assertion that state and local governments are now taking a smaller bite out of personal income. They note that several public service fees have increased concurrently with property tax reductions. Auto registration, drivers' license and car inspection fees have all doubled, while MBTA fares have tripled...
...issue of corruption. Dukakis strategists say they intend to contrast their candidate's image of impeccable honesty with what they call King's tainted reputation. The challenger makes no bones about raising the name of Barry Locke, a former high-level King adviser and director of the MBTA, who was convicted this month on bribery charges. Dukakis also points to the Ward Commission report, which unearthed significant corruption in state government, and which the King Administration has ignored in the year since it was released...
Nince months after entering into consultations with community leaders, and two months after Massachusetts Bay Transity Authority. (MBTA) officials said they would be unable to evacuate their temporary Brattle St. station early, the K-School decided to build a smaller than planned wing on Eliot St. and put the extra footage behind the subway stop...
Early this summer the K-School explored expanding on the site currently occupied by the T stop, but MBTA officials said the temporary station could not be moved in time for construction to begin as scheduled. Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the K-school, said this week school officials hope to break ground by the summer and move in by fall...
There may soon be less disruption from the MBTA, but area residents won't be through watching heavy construction--whether they like it or not--for some time to come. Two housing and office complexes that, when they are completed, will be the biggest developments in the Square, are scheduled to get underway this winter...