Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those words form a familiar refrain for everyone who has ever tried to get away from Harvard on the Boston subway system. All four lines--Red, Blue, Green and Orange--run directly through the center of Boston. Even as simple a trip as traveling from one side Cambridge to another requires a lengthy detour the inevitable Park St. stop...
...first time since November, there was no hockey game to watch. There were no walks across the river, past Blodgett, past Briggs to Bright. No road trips to upstate New York or subway rides to Boston Garden...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) is planning a "circumferential" subway line that would link the Orange Line with the Green Line at Lechmere and run along the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to connect the Green and Red Lines at Kendall Square...
MBTA Project Manager Peter C. Calcaterra said in an interview last week that an additional subway line would serve two purposes, It would relieve congestion at peak hours at the four transfer points in Boston, and it would extend service to people in other parts of Cambridge, Boston and the suburbs...
...Green of the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority said the new line would relieve traffic jams in Kendall Square and boost development there. He added that the subway could help businesses attract workers...