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...serve the needs of the suburbs, the group called for varied solutions, including the building of routes exclusively for rapid bus transportation, limited expansion of present MTA facilities, and continued use of the Boston and Maine railroad service...
...page statement and at a news conference, they emphasized that by promoting efficient operation, their plan was aimed at eliminating the MTA's deficit--$22 million last year. They attributed Boston's high costs to "extremely high" administration expenses, and some poor management decisions...
...steps toward better MTA service, the plan proposes "rationalizing" the present system by integrating the different transit lines. Under the program, for example, it would be possible to go from Harvard. Square directly to Logan International Airport without making two transfers...
...plan envisions spending 75 per cent of the $80 million to improve the existing MTA lines, while only 35 per cent-- "possibly even less"--of the governor's program would go towards this goal...
...case the proposal is not adopted and the MTA's deficit persists, they recommended that the deficit be financed according to the number of "transit-miles" used by each community, not on a basis of its population or merely the number of its inhabitants using rapid transit. Transit-miles would depend on the number of people using MTA and the town's distance from the city...