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Opposition to the MTA's relocation plans my delay the sale of the Bennett the MTA, said yesterday. He said the Board of Trustees would make no decision on the Yards until it finds a site for the switching, storage, and repair facilities now located there...
...MTA's original plan--relocating the facilities to yards near Codman square in Dorchester--has met with violent local opposition. Almost five hundred residents of Dorchester jammed the Board's meeting Thursday to protest against the expansion of the Codman Yards...
...Boston, the All-American city, has come up with another: Park Street Music, complete with Hammond organ and brass that goes "wah-wah" and "boop-boop." It slurps out of newly-installed speakers on both levels of the Park Street MTA station, and one cannot escape it. It's bad enough that the subway looks dirty, smells foul, and feels clammy. Must it sound rotten...
...House be built on four blocks lying north and east of Dunster House and Leverett Towers. According to a table in the report, Harvard already owns 38 per cent of this property, and Cambridge holds another 17 per cent. If Harvard rejects offers of dormitory space from the other MTA bidders, the Board says, the City should consider seizing the rest of the land and giving it to the University...
Some of the limited proposals in the Board's report deserve to be taken seriously. Whatever is finally built on the MTA Yards, it is sure to bring more traffic into the Square, and the Boards ideas (which include a computer-controlled signal system) might ease its flow. The suggested site for the Tenth House, moreover, seems a reasonable alternative if Harvard cannot get the Yards. But the Planning Board's Grand Design is unrealistic and marred by numerous inconsistencies. It is hard to see how a development resembling a second Prudential Center can be built on the 12-acre...