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Demolition of the buildings on the proposed site--the Bennett St. MBTA yards--cannot begin until the site has been approved by the Federal government according to guidelines issued by the Council on Environmental Quality...
Last Tuesday night, braving the advances of pickpockets and Boston Common groupies and avoiding an MBTA security guard who I'm sure wanted to nab me for loitering or dope dealing, I attended a two-hour Muzak "concert" at Park Street...
Park Street's brand of Muzak is not that bad. Not bad, that is, when compared to the Star Market, or the airport. The MBTA has selected a soundtrack that mingles old-time supermarket melodies with contemporary garbage rock and roll -- the bubble gum music that dominates AM radio. It's a curious combination...
...performance -- as Muzak performances go -- was pretty good. But all too often, the concert degenerated into a rehash of old airport delights which undermined the newer and more interesting numbers. The MBTA has put together a good collection at Park Street, but it can never be more than that...
...this weren't a bad enough violation of the abrasive Park Street atmosphere which many of us loved, every twenty minutes the theme song of the MBTA comes on, sung in sweet cherubic voices: "The T can take you where you're going, Take the T to where you've never been..." This is really too much to endure. Crass American is in poor taste, but commercial propaganda is an unpardonable transgression...