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...It’s a big step in the right direction,” says John Bigelow, a classical guitarist who discussed the musicians?? concerns with the MBTA directly. “It was very gratifying that the MBTA was willing to open up to the input and negotiations in a way that should have been endemic to the process from the beginning...
Andrew J. Conrad ’05, who recently finished a documentary film about the street musicians?? struggle titled Notes From the Underground, also suggested that the new regulations may have countenanced motives beyond those cited in the MBTA’s explanation...
Conrad, who describes himself as empathetic to the challenges facing administrators of a system as large as the MBTA, says he especially wanted an explanation for the sudden imposition of new regulations on the musicians??an explanation, he says, that was not forthcoming...
That resolution came late last week in the form of a compromise with the MBTA that assuaged almost all of the musicians?? initial grievances, leaving only a few contentious points...
Since then, the musicians?? rapport with the city has been tenuous at best...