Word: mta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general manager of the Metropolitan Transit Authority said yesterday that he would not object to selling the controversial Bennet St. switching and storage yards to the University, if the MTA could find another base of operations and vacate the land...
...MTA is interested in making a profit on the yards, and the sooner, the better, McClernon asserted. He noted tentative plans to reroute some buses through the tunnel under Harvard Square and to transfer all rolling stock now operating out of the Bennett St. yards to other terminals and garages in the area...
...past several Cambridge City Councilors have objected to sale of the site to the University, which is exempt from property taxes, because they said it would take taxable land off the city rolls. However, McLernon stated that the MTA has every right to sell and that "Cambridge has no call on the land...
...MTA Yards...
...first choice," President Pusey reiterated, "is and has long been site of the MTA yards." In 1958 the offered the MTA $1 million in of the market valuation of the . This offer was neither accepted refused. The University hopes the appointment of a new general of the MTA will mean of the proposal...