Word: mta
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...hijacked passengers aren't so scared that they can't give a lot of lip back to their captors. The transit hierarchy is clogged with wise guys. "What the hell do they expect for their lousy 35 cents?" one executive says of the subway hostages. "To live forever?" Another MTA veteran boldly and unwisely struts down the tracks toward the kidnapped train. "Why don't you go grab a goddam aeroplane like everybody else?" he shouts to one of the gunmen. "'Cause we're afraid of flyin'," the bad guy replies, and - BLAM - kills him. The subway system...
...City Hall, Councillor Alfred “Big Al” E. Vellucci moved to block tax-exempt Harvard’s expansion, hoping instead that private investors would develop the land and augment the city’s coffers.But before either party could have its way, the MTA (now called the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority) would have to agree to sell its 12 acres west of Kirkland and Eliot Houses near the Charles River. Called the Bennett Street Yards, the lot was the only facility for maintenance and repairs on the entire subway system. But it occupied some...
...free newspapers distributed to subway passengers were a prime culprit in the clogged storm drains and tunnel fires that harangue the city’s engineers and bring train traffic to a halt. “We have complained bitterly,” said a Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) board member, “about what we call the free newspapers.” The MTA has since launched a poster campaign under the title “Bad News,” instructing passengers what to do with their used newspapers: “Please...
Meanwhile, as the MTA gives money away, the MBTA will be reaching even deeper into the pockets of its faithful riders. Given the large number of students living and traveling in and around Boston, it is unclear exactly who the MBTA thinks is in a position to help solve its financial problems by paying increased fares. Here’s a hint: It’s not students. We have even less money than they do, and it is unfair to expect us and other Boston-area residents to pick up the tab for poorly conceived expansion projects that were...
While the decisions by the MBTA and MTA were not made in coordination, both of them are destined to upset the motorist-T-passenger balance for the worse. The state of travel in Massachusetts is an increasingly sad affair, and if poor choices like these continue to abound, public faith in the MBTA and MTA will erode even further...