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...full story starts in 1965 when the Massachusetts legislature gave the federal government land for building a Kennedy Library complex. Architect I.M. Pei developed a plan dividing the 12.2 acre Charles River site--now occupied by the Bennett-Eliot MBTA Yards--into four sections--5.3 acres for the Kennedy museum, archives, plaza and Institute of Politics; 3 acres for related facilities; 1.7 acres for street improvements; and 2.2 acres for Harvard construction...
Harvard will clearly get the property if the Kennedy Library is built, and this fact is crucial in understanding the Harvard administration's desire to see the Memorial built on the present Bennett St. MBTA site...
...sitting towards the front, studying the sixtyish-looking motorman in the control seat. He was engaged in conversation with another MBTA employee leaning against the fare-box, the kind of professional Kibbitzer who looks as if all he does is just ride the trolleys or busses--always standing on the steps, peering out the front windshield with bored confidence, intermittently letting out wisecracks about anything or nothing. This time it was politics...
With its big, roomy cars, extensive use of trolleys and elevated lines, and its wide, solid platforms, the MBTA has a hometown, airy style of its own. Even if New Yorkers laugh at the sight of trolleys impersonating subways in the underground stations of the green line, the MBTA is still worthy of exploration...
...final analysis, however, each subway freak chooses his own spot in the MBTA--and there are plenty to choose from. When I'm depressed, my favorite is the Central Square stop of the Red Line, when the last train of the night is due, and the station is deserted. A big iron monster takes the place of the turnstile after the man at the change booth has gone home for the night. On particularly bad nights, the iron monster will swallow your quarter and not allow you on the platform. But there is nothing in Boston that quite compares with...