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...MTA has announced plans to ease traffic congestion in Harvard Square by extending all bus and subway lines to its Bennett St. yards. The move will probably be made following the pending sale of 11 of the 12.2 acres in the yards early next year...
Bids for the land will be opened by the end of December, and the MTA plans to install terminal facilities on the remaining land soon after this date. Subways and buses which presently enter the Harvard Square station would disembark passengers in the yards rather than through the kiosk in the middle of the Square...
...MTA has suggested that Cambridge would follow the projected move by dismantling the kiosk entirely. The city would perhaps also remove the concrete island, widening the Boylston-Mass Ave. junction and easing traffic problems further...
Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 said the Council had been assured that the sale of the property would be public, and that the MTA was not negotiating with a private purchaser...
...MTA will invite closed bids on the property in newspaper advertisements sometime this month. Harvard, which has wanted the site for some time for the construction of a tenth House, will submit...