Word: mbta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BOSTON--The Massachusetts House of Representatives yesterday refused to revive Governor Edward J. King's bill reorganizing and bailing out the bankrupt Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), while a pending court order could end King's emergency takeover of the system...
...House voted 84-46 to defeat King's proposal to circumvent the MBTA Advisory Board, which has refused to appropriate funds to keep the trains and buses operating through December...
...MBTA has already run through its $303 million budget for 1980, and King claimed emergency powers Tuesday to continue transit operations after he failed to win legislative approval of his reorganization bill...
...MBTA ran additional buses between the Park Street and Brattle Station stops and two express shuttle trains until 11:05 a.m., when the fire was extinguished, Paul Dinatelli, an MBTA spokesman, said yesterday...
...MBTA engineer said he believed yesterday's fire was bigger and more dangerous than last month's fire...