Word: subways
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Janet, who grew up in Cambridge, has fondmemories of riding the rickety wooden escalatorsup from the subway station to visit HarvardSquare...
...woman who graduated from Harvard with a degree in English, the one hour each day on the subway spent reading Proust didn't quite quench her still-burning love for literature...
...untreated mental illness can have horrific results. Andrew Goldstein asked to be hospitalized in New York because he was terrified of phantom voices. Instead, budget-conscious officials most often referred him to short-term emergency care. Last year, in a psychotic state, he shoved a woman from a subway platform to her death under the wheels of a train...
...MBTA riders pay one of the lowest fares in the country. Most subway system charge well more than a dollar; in Philadelphia, the fare is nearly double Boston's, at $1.60. Still, there are good reasons to oppose the fare hike, and while it's painful to agree with the governor, in this case...
Supporters of the bill see the fare hike as an important component of rescuing the MBTA's finances. This reasoning depends on a dangerous assumption, that bus and subway riders should be responsible for financing the public transportation system themselves. Practically speaking, this is impossible: fares make up about 20 percent of the MBTA's budget, and for the system to be self-sustaining, rates would have to rise far more than 15 cents...