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Plans for construction of the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library on the present MBTA storage yards in Cambridge received an unexpected jolt yesterday from Boston Mayor Kevin H. White, who announced he would oppose the latest plans for moving the MBTA car barns...
White said he will not support an MBTA proposal to buy 24 acres of land in South Boston until the city is guaranteed continuing tax revenues from the land...
Last Friday, the MBTA announced an agreement to buy the land from the Penn Central Railroad for $7 million...
...certainly very good news," Pei said of the agreement, which ends years of frustrating attempts to relocate the car barns. The attempts began even before the Commonwealth of Massachusetts gave the Bennett-Eliot site to the library trustees in January of 1966, with the condition that the MBTA find a new site for its car barns before any work begins on the library construction...
...MBTA successively tried to relocate the barns to sites in Dorchester, Mattapan, and South Braintree, but residents of each community-feeling that the barns would be a nuisance-blocked the attempts through legislative action or in the courts. The negotiations which resulted in yesterday's agreement began last spring...