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...electrical substation and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) busway located near the Charles Hotel may soon be redeveloped, State Representative Alice K. Wolf said at a meeting held Wednesday to discuss preliminary sale and development plans...
...MBTA plans to sell the “Conductor’s Building” and adjacent power transformer, located on Mount Auburn Street, to the highest-bidding and “responsible” developer while maintaining control of certain easements—interests in the property—that would allow it to continue supplying buses and overhead power to the MBTA station...
Zoning officials estimate that, if the City of Cambridge approves the project, up to 64,000 square feet of new commercial and parking space could be developed. The MBTA is still in the process of appraising the value of the site, which it hopes to put up for public bid within the next month...
...MBTA maintains that 24-hour subway service is an impossibility in Boston. Unlike subways in New York, which can run on local and express tracks, Boston subways have only one track, meaning that subway traffic must stop for maintenance...
...Those hours between 1 a.m. and 5:30 am are an absolutely critical time...not only to do work [on the tracks], but inspect them,” Pesaturo, the MBTA spokesman, said. “It’s the only time the crews can get out on the right...