Word: mta
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...Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, in his annual letter to the faculty, said Harvard plans to reroute those easements—a costly, but not impossible move according to Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) Deputy Director of Real Estate Bill Tuttle...
...users are struggling to get to work. So now I'm thinking that striking isn't actually cool at all - not even in Los Angeles, where follow-the-leader is everyone's favorite party game. So even though the writers are blaming directors for their contractual shortcomings and the MTA is implying in radio ads that the transportation workers are greedy, I will not point a finger at Fred Segal. I will end my shop stoppage. I'm going to the Gap to look for white shirts. And maybe come up with a compromise...
...firebranding. "There's enough money to pay everyone a fair wage in this economy," says Courtney Gebhart, a SAG strike captain who has had to scramble for good gigs. "But corporate greed is trying to kill the middle class. So what do you get? The teachers, the actors, the MTA in California. Everyone is on strike." Gebhart wants to locate the strike in the gut of, say, a wage slave who sees his company making millions while he can't make the mortgage. "This strike isn't hurting the celebrity, or the bartender/actor who does one commercial a year...
Raising Boston subway fares has always been an emotional affair. In 1948, a fare hike from ten to fifteen cents inspired one of the great folk songs of the 20th century, J. Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes' "The MTA Song." The ballad tells the story of a man named Charlie who rides "forever 'neath the streets of Boston," without a nickel to pay the subway's new exit fare. Walter O'Brien, a Boston politician, used the tale of the famous "man who never returned" in his 1948 mayoral campaign, promising to repeal the fare hike and "get Charlie...
Today, the MTA's successor, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), raises subway fares from 85 cents to one dollar. Even at a dollar the fare will remain one of the lowest in the nation, and the T's announcement of its first fare hike in almost a decade met only half-hearted protest from environmental and transportation advocacy groups...