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Died. James Joseph Kilroy, 60, an inspector in Bethlehem Steel's Quincy shipyards, who may or may not have been the Kilroy who was there; of lung cancer; in Boston. In answer to a 1946 American Transit Association contest to discover the originator of the World War II slogan carried by G.I.s to the ends of the earth, Kilroy replied that he had crawled deep inside ships' hulls, chalking KILROY WAS HERE as his inspector's mark. The Transit Association thought enough of his explanation to award him a prize: a 22-ton streetcar, which his nine...
...members of the Cambridge City Council and the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority had dinner together Monday night, and incidentally, discussed the forthcoming sale of the MTA's Bennett St. yards...
...motion by Hayes requesting the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit authority to "retrain from selling or exposing of" the Bennett St. property ending a meeting with City representatives was passed 6-1. Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 cast the lone negative vote...
Instead of programming even more freeways and bridges, city engineers drew up imaginative plans for a rapid-transit system that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy...
...Making matters even tougher was a state requirement that the proposed bond issue be passed by 60% or more of the voters. By 61.1% of the total vote of 714,425, citizens of the three counties agreed to shell out the necessary money to build the first major rapid-transit program in the U.S. since Cleveland...