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Governor Peabody's proposed revision of the Boston area transit system will add to the MTA deficit, slow economic growth, and increase traffic congestion, Martin Wohl, lecturer on Public Administration, said in an interview yesterday...
Hayes explained that if the State Legislature votes through the $50 million West Cambridge extension to the Arlington-Belmont line, the MTA will definitely sell the Bennett Street Yards and transfer the repair facilities to a new location...
...extension of the West Cambridge line is not voted, the MTA trustees plan to sell all but the 25 per cent of the yards occupied by the repair shops and to grant air rights over that area," Hayes stated...
Thomas H. D. Mahoney, another Cambridge Councillor at the conference with MTA officials, also said that the sale of the Yards this summer is "very likely...
Harvard will probably run into a number of stumling blocks when new bidding is opened. Last year it was evident that at least one of the three MTA trustees strongly opposed University acquisition of the Yards. There is also significant opposition on the Cambridge, City Council to Harvard's ownership of the eminently taxable land. These local forces could try to influence bidding in favor of a private developer...