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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...
...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...
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) officials noticed the fire only after the inbound train had pulled to within 10 feet of the flames, an MBTA engineer who asked not to be identified said yesterday. He added that officials backed the train up and then evacuated the passengers, none of whom were injured...
...MBTA officials immediately shut off the electrical currents and suspended service to and from Park Street for 20 minutes, while Cambridge Fire Department officials tried to extinguish the flames. "If they didn't cut it off right away, it could have caused an explosion," the MBTA engineer said...