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...problem was evident at Thursday's State House hearing--people hate the MBTA when the MBTA wants to take away their trolley stops and plant huge transit facilities in their backyard. The only way Cambridge can get a Kennedy Library is for the MBTA to move its Bennett St. facility (across from Eliot House) to make way. The only way the MBTA can move is to find a place to relocate...
...MBTA Advisory Board last week approved a plan to move the car barns and repair yards to Mattapan Square and to run a rapid transit line there, replacing the trolleys that now run along the route through Dorchester and Milton. But the trolley stops are too close' together for high-speed subways, so some of the stops would have to be eliminated--three in Milton and one in Dorchester...
...Thursday, the Milton Mothers and the Dorchester Mothers were complaining about how far their children would have to walk to catch a sub-way to go to school. The Kennedy Library was not mentioned once. The whole issue was the MBTA...
...sponsored the bill that was under public debate Thursday. For them, the battle is all for show. They can hold up the Mattapan Plan for a few months, but they don't have a chance to beat it. Meanwhile, the folks in Dorchester are delighted. Battling giants like the MBTA, Harvard, and the Kennedys is great...
...Library Corporation has everyone on its side--Governor Volpe, Mayor White, the MBTA, and almost all the legislators in the Great and General Court. Volpe is "committed" to the Library, he says, as the Commonwealth's memorial to the late President. Two years ago, the legislature voted to pay over 80 per cent of the cost of the Bennett St. land as its gift to the Library...