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...contrast to Peabody's proposal, which recommends the extention of MTA rapid transit to 614 outlying communities, they suggested "making the existing system as efficient as possible." They said that the MTA's costs per "car-mile" were more than twice those of comparable systems in other large American cities...
...Harry, "is our own underground railway." The "railway" is no more than a pulley-operated car with room enough for one person to lie flat on it. But it serves an important purpose: we had come to Massachusetts Avenue, where the Tunnel must squeeze between the top of the MTA subway tunnel and the street--a space of about three feet--; the only practical method of travel is lying flat in a pulley-operated railway...
Wohl called the governor's plan for financing his $200-million program "ludicrous." The governor proposed a two-cent increase in the cigarette tax to pay for the MTA deficit. Wohl said that taxation for public utilities should be limited to people who use them...
...suggested that any MTA deficit be charged to towns in proportion to the number of riders from each...
They also suggested that the MTA system be "rationalized" immediately, making it possible for example, to go from Harvard to the Museum of Fine Arts without transferring several times...