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...interview last night, Chairman Francis F. Brooks '37 said that his board will present a letter today to MBTA General Manager Leo J. Cusick blasting the plan...
...MBTA's third and latest plan to move the Bennett Street transit facility and expedite construction of the Kennedy Library has been sharply criticized by the chairman of the Milton Board of Selectmen as "uneconomic and unwise...
Robert E. Rudolph, director of traffic and parking, sent a report to the City Council yesterday, telling them that the MBTA had not yet agreed to make certain wiring changes in the area. The MBTA must make the changes before the City can end the rotary around the Common. Even after the MBTA agrees to the wiring changes, Rudolph said, it will take some 17 weeks to complete them...
Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney said last night that "This man [Rudolph] doesn't seem to know what he wants to do." According to Mahoney, Rudolph told MBTA officials that the rotary would be permanent, not temporary. The MBTA then spent $8,000 to change switches for their trackless trolleys to conform with the new pattern. It will now cost them another $10,000 to change the switches back...
Volpe's message recommends a marshland area on the Neponset River near Dorchester and Milton, now owned by the MDC, as the site for a new $6 million MBTA transit facility. It would replace the Bennett St. yards in Cambridge, the planned site for the library. It is clear that the marshland area is the best location for the new yards in metropolitan Boston. The results of a survey, to be released this week; show that no houses will be destroyed and no town lands used up. Earlier surveys have shown that the 12-acre Bennett St. site...