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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last fall, Saundra Graham, city council representative, asked the city to investigate complaints that MBTA construction was driving rats from their nests to Western...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Winthrop Students Decry Mouse Population Boom | 2/11/1980 | See Source »

...wish the governor had taken a more personal interest in the MBTA earlier on his own and really examined his choice," he says, adding that King "should know the caliber of the management team, he shouldn't tell them what color pencils...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: An MBTA Watchdog With Teeth: James Smith of the Advisory Board | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

...Advisory Board last week approved a new budget for the MBTA, but a request for an additional $6.9 million will be reviewed this week. "My sense is that we won't approve it," Smith says. "We just won't be able to afford...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: An MBTA Watchdog With Teeth: James Smith of the Advisory Board | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

Immediate problems with the MBTA include its workers and their productivity. "The T can't succeed unless the work force wants it to. It's so hard to develop leadership and to identify it--something (former MBTA director Richard) Kiley was able to do," he says. "I'm a strong union guy, but they ought not to manage. This union manages and that's where it falls apart...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: An MBTA Watchdog With Teeth: James Smith of the Advisory Board | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

Smith says his goals for the new year include "external funding and internal reforms:" finding better ways to fund the MBTA than through property taxes and improving management to be sure it is properly spent...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: An MBTA Watchdog With Teeth: James Smith of the Advisory Board | 2/5/1980 | See Source »

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