Word: mta
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Early this month Acting Governor Jane Swift fired two MTA board members, Christy Mihos and Jordan Levy, after they voted down a toll hike that would have helped pay for the growing cost...
...their appeal of the dismissal to the Supreme Judicial Court, Levy and Johnson introduced MTA memoranda that outlined a timeline for advertising the availability of several parcels, including the parcel reported to be on sale to Harvard...
Mihos claims that those sales could have helped cover the cost of the Big Dig, but that MTA staff who were allied with Swift stalled the sales to prevent any “good news” about MTA finances as she tried to fire the two board members because of the fiscal problems, according to yesterday’s Globe article...
Both Harvard and the MTA, however, claim that no such $150 million deal was under way between them...
...Early last year we had some very general discussions, but nothing concrete,” said MTA Chief Development officer Stephen J. Hines, who wrote some of the memoranda submitted to the courts. “We were not talking about selling the property...