Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book did more than add a colorful catch phrase to the language. With its analysis of poverty in America and its plea for greater attention to the public sector?housing, police, mass transit, education and welfare?it established clear guideposts for both the New Frontier and the Great Society. Galbraith offered the best summation of its philosophy when he testified against tax reduction before a congressional committee in 1965. "I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend," he said, "if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted...
...long delay in finding another site for the Bennett transit facility could post-pone ground-breaking beyond that date. If this happens, a Library spokesman said last night, the MBTA will probably be given an extension on the use of Bennett...
...MBTA's third and latest plan to move the Bennett Street transit facility and expedite construction of the Kennedy Library has been sharply criticized by the chairman of the Milton Board of Selectmen as "uneconomic and unwise...
...million plan, revealed February 1, includes replacing trolley service between Ashmont and Mattapan with a rapid transit line, closing three stations in Milton, and building a new maintenance and storage facility in Mattapan Square for 100 cars...
Brooks, however, is not satisfied with these arguments. He said that closing three Milton stations would inconvenience a large number of people, the cost of the plan would mean unnecessarily increased tax assessments, and running rapid transit into an area where only 1500 people board per day is wasteful...