Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third floor of Phillips Brooks House here is a tiny room littered with printed forms in triplicate. It is the home of Cambridge Local Board 17; last week Local Board 17 issued this writer a pair of MTA tickets and told him to report to the Boston Army Base for his pre-induction physical...
...Twenty MTA workmen yesterday began a six-weeks job of raising the trolley tracks in the Square to prepare for city road pavers. The tracks must be made three inches higher before Cambridge can give Massachusetts Avenue a new asphalt finish from Garden Street to the Square...
Another plan involved raising again the MTA tax assessment on the suburbs. Unfortunately, the less prosperous towns like Chelsca and Somerville were already paying to the limit, and inhabitants of the wealthier areas balked at paying more while they commuted mainly by automobiles...
...possibility was an MTA request for a grant from the state emergency relief fund. This was smothered at an early stage. The state fund was not big enough to take care of the MTA as well as necessary statewide projects. Furthermore, sectional opposition from the western part of the state insured defeat of the plan. This opposition also killed the proposal to consider subway track as public highway. This would have made the MTA eligible for a cut of the state gasoline tax. Finally, authorities looked hopefully at the New York system of obtaining revenue through city sales taxes...
Even strict economy measures, such as abolishing rents and taxes on MTA property and payroll reductions, will not bring the yearly deficit below $3,000,000. The only feasible solution is the fare hike. From now on Bostonians will just have to fumble for that extra nickel...