Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many a harried instructor or teaching fellow who jolts toward the University by MTA from the out-lying -bury's and -ville's of Boston each morning, Commencement orations about the Cambridge "community of scholars" have a certain hollow ring. Instead of the academic sanctuary envisioned by 19th century Harvard presidents, the University too often now is a place where the younger Faculty member spends his day between 9 and 5 like any other commuter. The high rents and poor housing in the neighborhood drive him to suburbia...
...takes about 16 seconds for passengers to filter through the trains at each station, and the complete trip takes at least 1:14 second larger than MTA calculations...
...sign on the Harvard Square kiosk, 'MTA Rapid Transit, 84 minutes to Park Street,' is a misrepresentation of fact," the Public Utilities Research Committee charged yesterday...
...figures reveal the average trip takes at least 9:14," a committee spokesman said. The exaggerated claim is apparently part of the MTA's attempts to thwart Mayor Foley's Plan to remove the kiosk, the spokesman added...
Foley has suggested running buses through the subway, but the MTA said that the cost of pumping out exhaust fumes was prohibitive...