Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most other communities, the Cambridge CD effort is proceeding at a slow rate. The MTA has posted shelter signs in Central, Kendall, and Harvard stations providing "raw space" for 8,106 people. Not all of this space is readily available, however, and none if it has been stocked with supplies. The local authorities have sent out over 200 license forms to the owners of potential shelter space, and, if these licenses are signed, the process of making and stocking the areas can begin. But according to Edmund Burke, Cambridge Civil defense Co-ordinator, the forms "are coming in awfully slowly...
...other developments McKenna and Kenneally announced a comprehensive Senate investigation of MTA land sales which will include a probe into the Bennett St. Yard controversy...
...investigation is a direct challenge to powerful MTA General Manager Thomas J. McLernon. "He brought it on by his complete disregard for the public," McKenna stated. "McLernon's one obsession is to cut the MTA deficit and he does not care how he does it," the Senator continued...
Asked if there was anything out of order in the MTA position on the Bennett ST. Yards, McKenna declared, "I don't know, but we certainly are going to find out." He claimed that the Senate investigatory committee, which will supoena both records and witnesses, will produce "revelations that will be quite enlightening...
Bids on the MTA Yards were opened on December 28, 1962. Harvard bid $5,010,000, and Francis J. Roche, Cambridge attorney, offered...