Word: subways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both his talent for physical humor and his capacity for dramatic acting. There is a very funny scene in the film in which Ritter has just been given a rather excessive electroshock therapy treatment, and he proceeds to jolt about like a combination of Frankenstein's monster and a subway car on the green line of the MBTA. But it is the scenes in Skin Deep in which he is given the chance to act as the straight man that demonstrate how far Ritter has evolved from Jack Tripper...
Meanwhile, the MBTA is also making an effort toincrease security for subway riders, Dimond said.A new warning system, designed to tell passengerswhen a train is about to come, is in the planningstages, Dimond said. The system will allowpassengers to wait in the lighted area near thetoken booth at night, rather than on the platform...
...series of forums held in the 78 cities and towns served by the transit system--popularly known as the `T'--the MBTA is seeking public comment on its plan to raise the price of a subway ride from 60 to 75 cents. If approved, the increase would be the first since...
Dimond said that the vast number of recent improvements and expan- sions in the subway system justified theincrease. Since 1981, the MBTA has spent $2.5billion modernizing its equipment and repairingtracks. In addition, ridership has increased 20percent to its current level of 650,000 passengersdaily...
...cent subway fare would still be thecheapest in the nation, Dimond said...