Word: mta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Transit. Authority is not presently considering disposal of its Boylston St. caryards or extension of its Cambridge subway, Anthony D. Pompeo,, chairman of the MTA trustees, told the City Council yesterday...
Several councillors questioned the importance of the yards, particularly the repair facilities. Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, said he thought that "less than ten" employees now worked in the shops, and asserted that it was "a little selfish on the part of the MTA" to retain the extensive facilities when the propety might be put to more productive...
Toomey's remarks were prompted by the MTA's privately negotiated sale of five acres of valuable land in Medford last week. The sale precipitated a sharp controversy between legislative members and the trustees of the MTA about the way in which all surplus MTA land should be sold...
Toomey and Ward have each opposed private sales, asking that the MTA publish a list of all its salable land. Ward supported the Medford transaction, however, and said yesterday that any MTA land sale is "fair game" and can be conducted as the trustees decide...
...MTA received $200,000 for the Medford sale which prompted the controversy. Although an MTA appraiser valued the land at $150,000, Medford appraisers declared after the sale was announced that the land was worth at least...