Word: subways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capacity of every bridge, tunnel and expressway leading to the city, only 22% of all commuters could drive to work. For those who live within the city, driving is generally out of the question. They take a taxi if they can afford and find one (increasingly difficult), or the subway-which, according to the city's design task force, is "probably the most squalid environment of the U.S., dank, dingily lit, fetid, raucous with screeching clatter." And savagely crowded at rush hour...
...recently proposed MBTA plan to extend subway service up Mass. Ave. was rejected by the Cambridge Advisory Committee Tuesday...
...ease this new traffic problem the CAC wants the MBTA to transform access tunnels to the Bennett St. MBTA yards (the JFK Library sight) into walk-ways leading to the main station under the Square. These tunnels pass beneath Brattle St. and could provide extra entrances to the subway for both shoppers and library visitors...
...MBTA has still not decided what route the new subway will follow as it moves north from Harvard Square. Of the four possible routes under consideration, the most likely now seems to be directly up Mass...
...Museum is open free to the public each week Tuesday through Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Only a couple of minutes' walk from the Charles subway station, it deserves widespread support...