Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Watson and the Masters of the Houses agree that the spider incident "has solved Harvard's time-honored space problem," and the Administration substitutes a new concept for the old formula of expansion: "liquidation." ...Harvard purchases the MTA yards and President Pusey declares himself "pleased as punch and proud as a peacock," and promises to start construction of a temple within a year. "I think we have never owned so much rolling stock before," he says.... McGeorge Bundy resigns from the Metropolitan Club in Washington. "This has nothing to do with principle, the food there is simply awful...
Another problem facing both Harvard and the MTA is the University's exemption from property taxes. In the past, Cambridge City Councilors have objected to action which would keep the yards off the tax rolls...
...Once the MTA abandons the Bennett St. yards, which are used for storage of electric buses, it will have to increase substantially the number of diesel buses on its Harvard Sq. runs. Only the diesels can be parked at the MTA facilities just north of Cambridge in Somerville...
...MTA is reportedly considering Codman Sq. in Dorchester as the site for most of its switching and storage facilities...
...Although the MTA would retain a small part of the Bennett St. site for storage," McClernon said, "all the land except the present parking lot would be sold." He noted that "the MTA is required to offer the land for public bid but is not required to sell to the highest bidder, and would "probably make the land available to the University...