Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...contrast to Peabody's proposal, which recommends the extention of MTA rapid transit to 614 outlying communities, they suggested "making the existing system as efficient as possible." They said that the MTA's costs per "car-mile" were more than twice those of comparable systems in other large American cities...
...serve the needs of the suburbs, the group called for varied solutions, including the building of routes exclusively for rapid bus transportation, limited expansion of present MTA facilities, and continued use of the Boston and Maine railroad service...
...page statement and at a news conference, they emphasized that by promoting efficient operation, their plan was aimed at eliminating the MTA's deficit--$22 million last year. They attributed Boston's high costs to "extremely high" administration expenses, and some poor management decisions...
...steps toward better MTA service, the plan proposes "rationalizing" the present system by integrating the different transit lines. Under the program, for example, it would be possible to go from Harvard. Square directly to Logan International Airport without making two transfers...
...Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway" is no more than a pulley-operated car with room enough for one person to lie flat on it. But it serves an important purpose: we had come to Massachusetts Avenue, where the Tunnel must squeeze between the top of the MTA subway tunnel and the street--a space of about three feet--; the only practical method of travel is lying flat in a pulley-operated railway...