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...SEPTEMBER 1977, Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams announced that the Department of Transportation would encourage "good design, art and architecture in transportation facilities and services." Several months later, as part of this policy, the Urban Mass Transit Authority gave the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--the folks who've been trying to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square--$125,000 to develop one of four national pilot projects...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Take the Red Line... Please | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...Cambridge Arts Council, on the other hand, says, "Rapid transit systems can no longer be considered only pass-through environments that rush people from one location to another...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Take the Red Line... Please | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

Danchy's real worry, however, is not battling his fellow councilors or Harvard officials, but matching blow for blow with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), the agency that wants to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square. As he speaks of it, his manners change and his eyes light...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Danehy: It's Happened Before | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn's counterintelligence agents, he was fleeing to the West on the S-Bahn, the prewar rapid transit that still connects the divided city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The S-Bahn Spy | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the construction firm hired by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which is attempting to dig such a hole at the corner of Mass. Ave and Garfield St.--building a haul shaft is a very dirty and noisy operation...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Digging In | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

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