Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Planning Board has decided it does not want Harvard to get the Bennett St. MTA yards, but the University may get them anyway...
...Planning Board suggests that the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority purchase the land from the MTA and develop it through controlled private contractors. The report calls the sale of the Yards "the most important development of the Twentieth Century for Cambridge." It added that the Yards are "a land bank to be drawn upon only for blue chip investments...
...Planning Board envisioned linking the MTA yards to the Harvard Square area to form a joint office area and entertainment center. The project would entail demolition of a two-block area, bounded by Boylston, Eliot, and Mount Auburn Streets...
...patterns and traffic signals, pedestrians who enjoy the legal right-of-way over red lights and policemen, heavy trucks that rumble through the city for points north of Boston, and commuters from Belmont and Watertown who drive a legion of automobiles into Cambridge, park them, and leave on the MTA for work. While these distinguishing features have persisted, Cambridge traffic has become more snarled with each passing year...
Harvard's bid of $5,010,000 still stands. The MTA is not required to accept the highest offer, and MTA officials have declared that their choice "will be in the best interests of Cambridge...