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...READ The Transit of Venus is to leave the crazed nihilistic rush of the modern street and to venture into the lucid stillness of an old place, maybe an art museum, of finer craftsmanship and the echos of time. This novel hauntingly portrays contemporary life, always going past it, past the preoccupations and manias of the moment, to a longer, stiller perspective...
Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) descriptions of the extension of the Red Line are artfully simple: "...five years of blasting, drilling, scooping and building will become another ten minutes of commuting." That will be in the spring of 1984, when the first Red Line cars venture beyond the Harvard Square station to Porter and Davis squares and to the Alewife area, bringing subterranean transit to the edge of the city...
...looking at the benefits and bugbears of adding subway lines. The suits surrounding the construction of the extension itself have quieted down, but many residents are leery about a subway that ends in Alewife, an old and lonely industrial site where a huge parking lot is planned. "Wherever a transit system terminates, it has a negative effect," City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy says. He adds that the parking lot "attracts car thieves and pickpockets, and where you have that, occasionally you get into crimes against persons...
...million each day. The walkout cost the city about $3 million a day in lost sales taxes and other revenue, as well as overtime pay for police and firemen. Some of that loss, however, will be offset by the daily savings of $2 million from not operating the transit system and by the Taylor Law penalties...
...M.T.A. lost it at the bargaining table." He fears that the municipal unions-firemen, police, sanitation men and teachers-will make even greater demands of the hard-pressed city when they begin contract negotiations in June. By his feisty leadership, Koch rallied the public behind him during the transit strike. He will need that support in the labor battles ahead...