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...Webster's dictionary, an alewife is a small North American fish, resembling a shad, or a woman who operates an ale house. In Massachusetts, however, Alewife is also the name of a parkway running through the western part of Somerville. That's where the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) is going to extend the Red Line from Harvard Square by 1982 or 1983, if everything goes according to schedule. Lucky for the Class of '82, things won't be too bad in the Square until March or April, when the heavy construction is scheduled to begin. But just wait until...
Like any other big construction project, the subway extension promises to be a big mess--"five miserable years of it," as officials in the Harvard Planning Office predict. But Harvard has its own committee to coordinate plans with the MBTA, and even though most Harvard students won't be riding the RedLine to Alewife, this process will have a big effect on their lives...
...traffic lanes will remain in use the whole time. The tunneling work will go above ground only at one point--at the intersection of Mass Ave and Garden Street. The tunneling will begin sometime in March, Supratik Bose, chairman of the Harvard committee which is working with the MBTA, says...
...bulk of the Red Line project will be funded by the MBTA, supplemented by the Urban Mass Transit Association. Final costs for the project are expected to be in the millions, although no final figure has been estimated...
Randy Moir, a project archaeologist at the Peabody Museum's Institute of Conservation Archaeology (ICA), was walking past Harvard Hall last Friday and stopped to explore the trenches dug by Metropolitan Boston Transportation Authority (MBTA) workers. The workers are rerouting pipes to make way for the extension of the Red Line...