Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boston, the All-American city, has come up with another: Park Street Music, complete with Hammond organ and brass that goes "wah-wah" and "boop-boop." It slurps out of newly-installed speakers on both levels of the Park Street MTA station, and one cannot escape it. It's bad enough that the subway looks dirty, smells foul, and feels clammy. Must it sound rotten...
Last February, the Cambridge City Council asked the Planning Board to study the development of the Bennett Street MTA Yards; early last month, the Board reported on the whole Harvard Square area. Its 65-page report, based on the assumption that the development of the Yards is "inextricably intertwined" with the future of the Square, proposes that the two areas be combined into a single busines and shopping center...
...House be built on four blocks lying north and east of Dunster House and Leverett Towers. According to a table in the report, Harvard already owns 38 per cent of this property, and Cambridge holds another 17 per cent. If Harvard rejects offers of dormitory space from the other MTA bidders, the Board says, the City should consider seizing the rest of the land and giving it to the University...
Some of the limited proposals in the Board's report deserve to be taken seriously. Whatever is finally built on the MTA Yards, it is sure to bring more traffic into the Square, and the Boards ideas (which include a computer-controlled signal system) might ease its flow. The suggested site for the Tenth House, moreover, seems a reasonable alternative if Harvard cannot get the Yards. But the Planning Board's Grand Design is unrealistic and marred by numerous inconsistencies. It is hard to see how a development resembling a second Prudential Center can be built on the 12-acre...
Besides the new rapid transit cars, the MTA has also purchased 400 new buses. Many will be used when the $1.5 million demonstration experiment with the Mass Transportation Commission goes into effect this June...