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...Harvard station isn't the only place where the MBTA has run into unexpected construction troubles. Recently, the Alewife station crews dug up soil in a W.R. Grace and Co. chemical landfill. Going undetected, the acidic soil would have eventually eroded any construction on the site. However, after months of negotiations, the MBTA and the chemical company finally settled. They are now jointly neutralizing and removing the more than 10,000 cubic feet of contaminated soil, but the bargaining slowed the construction for weeks...
...there are some construction troubles all the MBTA negotiations in the world can't remedy. Inflation has sent the project's costs soaring: the original $300 million price tag has doubled to more than $600 million...
...MBTA project has also been bogged down by labor troubles. This summer the pile drivers who build the wooden floors above the construction walked out for three weeks. That isn't all. The plumbers' union has been out since August 31. Construction crews have been building around the plumbing sites, Gary Balboni, the project engineer for Perini Construction Co., says, adding, however, that "we can't do that forever...
...MBTA, the strikes are part of the "day-to-day difficulties of building the line," MBTA official George Holland says. But no matter how par for the course these daily problems are, the MBTA this weekend averted a more significant, threatening electricians strike. The electricians, whose contract expired August 31, recently voted overwhelmingly to strike, a union official says. Around-the-clock negociations ended with the electricians voting on September 6 to accept the new contract. "The strike would have been a disaster for the MBTA," Holland admits. This averted "disaster" is one of the few bright spots...
...Line extension, which was originally slated to go from Harvard all the way to Arlington. They lost the suit and construction continued, as did the problems. Before the construction even began, tight finances cut short the line at Alewife Brook Parkway instead of Arlington. But once the MBTA surmounted the legal and financial battles a few years ago, the plan hit few other hurdles--until...