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Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) descriptions of the extension of the Red Line are artfully simple: "...five years of blasting, drilling, scooping and building will become another ten minutes of commuting." That will be in the spring of 1984, when the first Red Line cars venture beyond the Harvard Square station to Porter and Davis squares and to the Alewife area, bringing subterranean transit to the edge of the city...
...while MBTA officials see the construction mainly in terms of decking, slurry walls and 33 different contracts, Cantabrigians are looking at the benefits and bugbears of adding subway lines. The suits surrounding the construction of the extension itself have quieted down, but many residents are leery about a subway that ends in Alewife, an old and lonely industrial site where a huge parking lot is planned. "Wherever a transit system terminates, it has a negative effect," City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy says. He adds that the parking lot "attracts car thieves and pickpockets, and where you have that, occasionally...
Sullivan said he expects no increase in state aid this year, and added that the Commonwealth may charge the city as much as $500,000 more than this year to make up for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) deficit...
...current tax levy of $65 million would be cut to $23 million, Sullivan reports. Over the same period, inflation could drive costs up 50 per cent or more. The result: "We wouldn't even have the money to pay our fixed costs--the interest on our debt, our MBTA and MDC assessments, the pensions." If all went as the backers of the referendum envision it, there would not be the money in Cambridge "to employ a single fireman or cop," Sullivan says...
...went on. The next day while waiting at Park St. for a train, she said, she saw the same person, also waiting for a train. She said she went to the information booth and told the MBTA officer she thought it was the same person. "He took me down and said, 'Is this the same person?" He asked me twice, and I told him I was certain." McGaw said she saw him again in a little office at the subway stop and identified him again. "I saw him again in the hallway the day of the arraignment...