Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to shake hands with you," said the Milton Mother in the purply-red suit. "You've turned our community upside down. I'm not going to shake hands with you." Edward J. McLaughlin, the general counsel for the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority, was embarrassed. An Irish blush washed his face, lapping the edges of his gray temples...
...problem was evident at Thursday's State House hearing--people hate the MBTA when the MBTA wants to take away their trolley stops and plant huge transit facilities in their backyard. The only way Cambridge can get a Kennedy Library is for the MBTA to move its Bennett St. facility (across from Eliot House) to make way. The only way the MBTA can move is to find a place to relocate...
...MBTA Advisory Board last week approved a plan to move the car barns and repair yards to Mattapan Square and to run a rapid transit line there, replacing the trolleys that now run along the route through Dorchester and Milton. But the trolley stops are too close' together for high-speed subways, so some of the stops would have to be eliminated--three in Milton and one in Dorchester...
Once they are in a union, public employees immediately see further differences. Thus in Manhattan, drivers on the buses operated by the public Transit Authority are covered by the no-strike law, while those driving for the privately owned Avenue B and East Broadway Transit Co. are under no such restriction. Fired by the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission after a 1966 strike, garbage men in suburban Washington savored the immense satisfaction of going back to work-at the higher wages they had demanded-for the private contractor to whom the commission had let the new refuse-collection contract. Amid such...
...public schools imperil either the public health or safety? And where is the line drawn in the staffs of government hospitals? Are nurses more essential than, say, laboratory technicians? In any case, there are fluctuating degrees of essentiality that defy easy definition. New York City's transit strike turned intolerable within days. But this year, residents of Rochester endured the loss of their public transportation system for nine weeks...