Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last spring, the residents of Codman Square let out a howl of protest at the prospect of MTA facilities in their neighborhood. Spearheading the organized resistance was Sen. Kenneally of Dorchester, who introduced a bill in the Massachusetts Senate prohibiting the MTA from locating repair facilities within 1000 yards of a hospital...
Curiously enough, Dorchester's Carney Hospital is situated approximately 950 yards from the center of the MTA property in Codman Square...
Kenneally's bill was trick legislation, intended to affect only the proposed MTA construction in Codman Square. But a law passed by the General Court would hamper the MTA throughout the Common-wealth, and the bill seemed so certain of passage that the MTA had to act to head...
Early this month, MTA General Manager Thomas J. McLernon quietly gave assurances that the MTA would abandon its plans to move repair facilities to Codman Square. A day later the Kenneally bill was quietly removed from the legislative docket...
...MTA officials claim, however, that outside of Codman Square they have no feasible location for their repair facilities except the Bennett St. Yards...