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Businessmen in the Harvard Square area are generally in favor of the University's proposed purchase of the MTA property on Boylston St., it was learned yesterday. No opposition was offered to the move from the 14 store owners and managers polled...
...Those MTA car barns are a tremendous waste of valuable land," said Robert I. Slate, owner of the Slate stationery store. But Stanley Davis, assistant manager at Hayes-Bickford's, was more reserved and predicted that "in the years to come, all Cambridge is going to be owned by Harvard and M.I.T...
...proposed extension of the MTA subway along Massachusetts Ave. from Harvard Square to Porter Square is particularly welcome, and especially timely. The most practical plan calls for the line to continue on above ground from Porter Square to West Cambridge, and from there two branches would go on to Weston and Bedford. Both routes would intersect Route 128, the main highway circling Boston...
Perhaps the most important consequence would be relocation of the MTA yards and shops which would follow the elimination of most of the surface lines running into Harvard Square and the transfer of terminal facilities to West Cambridge. The University has offered to help pay the cost of relocation if it can acquire the yards for its own expansion...
Similar expansion plans for the MTA were defeated several years ago since the 14 municipalities could not agree upon a method of finance and payment...