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...Governor's program itself calls for the extension of MTA rapid transit facilities to 64 outlying communities to provide Boston and its suburbs with fast commuter transportation. It is hoped that the new MTA lines could take pressure off such arteries as Memorial Drive...
...Radcliffe freshman was awarded almost $100,000 in damages yesterday for injuries received when she was struck by a Metropolitan Transit Authority...
...Subway. New York officials laid their own plans accordingly. Police leaves were canceled, cops and tow trucks were assigned stations along the highways and bridges. Transit Authority police, who guard the subway system, were given posts in key trains and subway stations...
Shortly afterward, another fair-bound train stopped in the station, and again a bunch of demonstrators wedged themselves in the doorways to keep the train from starting. This time a flying squad of Transit Authority police, some of them Negro, barreled to the rescue. The protesters refused to budge. The cops hauled them out one by one. Some of the demonstrators, several of whom were white, began fighting back. Billy-clubs began swinging, and before long some of the demonstrators were nursing bloodied heads. In all, 23 of them were carried off to jail...
...case the proposal is not adopted and the MTA's deficit persists, they recommended that the deficit be financed according to the number of "transit-miles" used by each community, not on a basis of its population or merely the number of its inhabitants using rapid transit. Transit-miles would depend on the number of people using MTA and the town's distance from the city...