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...this week's city council meeting, the MTA announced that it plans to replace its streetcars to Arlington with busses, which would run through the Square rather than under it, as now. Mayor Foley oppose this, saying that the MTA could well run all its vehicles under the Square and thus relieve surface congestion. Sullivan isn't too happy with the MTA, either...
Foley also chided the MTA for refusing to allow a parking garage to be built over its car barn at Boylston Street and Memorial Drive. Several city efforts to inaugurate such a proposal have collided with the MTA's insistence on keeping its parked streetcars radiant with sunshine or wet with rain rather than covered with parked automobiles...
...should be at a low ebb in its Registration Issue, when it wants most to impress prospective buyers. Small consolation though it may be to the new subscriber, the latest issue, with the single exception of John Ratte's fine cover portraying his conception of the bowels of the MTA, is below par. The editors have attempted to compensate for the dearth of material with a new art supplement, which is generally a good idea, albeit a third of the collection might well have been omitted...
...many a harried instructor or teaching fellow who jolts toward the University by MTA from the out-lying -bury's and -ville's of Boston each morning, Commencement orations about the Cambridge "community of scholars" have a certain hollow ring. Instead of the academic sanctuary envisioned by 19th century Harvard presidents, the University too often now is a place where the younger Faculty member spends his day between 9 and 5 like any other commuter. The high rents and poor housing in the neighborhood drive him to suburbia...
...takes about 16 seconds for passengers to filter through the trains at each station, and the complete trip takes at least 1:14 second larger than MTA calculations...