Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is simply not true today. A '58 graduate now at the Law School participated both in the Glee Club and on the Student Council, and was not at all an "angry young commuter." Present-day commuters complain not about Dudley facilities or time spent on the MTA but about the University's policy of accepting fewer local students (which "discourages commuters"), and of Harvard's vacillation in choosing a new site for Dudley...
Massachusetts' hopes for an effective express transit system to the South Shore and perhaps Harvard's designs for the Bennett St. MTA yards quite suddenly began to look futile yesterday. The State Senate finally rejected Governor Volpe's plan to purchase the Old Colony Line of the New Haven Railroad...
...bill would have authorized the Commonwealth to buy the ailing line from the deficit-ridden New Haven for what constitutes salvage rates, a low $1,159,000. It was part of he Governor's plan to link up the services of the Old Colony and the MTA and thus provide an extensive system for the South Shore...
...forestall opposition from area legislators whose municipalities now pay heavily for the present MTA deficit, Volpe had emphasized that he would not ask that the financial operations of the two be combined. In any case, it appears that Senators from outside the Metropolitan area defeated the bill...
Defeat of the bill may also hamper the University's chances of obtaining the MTA yards across from Eliot and Kirkland Houses, where Harvard would locate the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College. It was reported last fall that the Old Colony had storage facilities which the MTA could have substituted for its Cambridge yards