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Announcement yesterday of a proposal to construct a 15-story office building on stilts over MTA Harvard Sq. property drew mixed reactions from the University and a civic group...
Planned by John B. Sullivan and William J. Chase, the structure would go over the present trackless trolley enhance and exit at Mass Ave. and Cambridge St., opposite the Littauer Center. Excluded in the facilities would be an MTA passenger station and a parking lot on the ground floor...
...Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the MTA in Harvard...
...local schools, colleges, and universities, only Harvard remained open. With traffic slowed to a crawl, Boston authorities sent out their full task force of more than 150 snowplows. The MTA cancelled all surface feeder lines, maintaining only the subway operations...
Traffic conditions localy mirrored those all over the city. The slight grade of Boylston St. proved too much for two huge semi-trailers and an MTA bus. The three blocked up traffic for nearly an hour. After sliding to a halt in front of one of the area's gas stations, two ladies attacked with their shoes a service station attendant who told them to move because they were blocking the entrance...