Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Both candidates in the state gubernatorial race have committed themselves toward encouraging the sale of the MTA's Bennett St. yards to the University...
Volpe stated this week that he would "encourage the sale of any unused MTA land" to the University in order to provide adequate facilities "for students from Massachusetts and from other states and countries...
...University has been negotiating for two years to purchase the site, on which it hopes to erect the tenth House called for in the Program for Harvard College. Previous negotiations with Governor Furcolo failed, partly because the MTA could not find a substitute for the Bennett St. yards. The yards have the only facilities for extensive maintenance on the entire system...
Coupled with the allotment of $1,100,000 approximately the salvage price of the Colony), McLernon's statement has to speculation that the MTA has purchased that line and with it the Codman maintenance yards...
...MTA has obtained that substitute the Bennett St. facilities, the future of a tenth House for the College rest in the hands of the new governor...