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Volpe's message recommends a marshland area on the Neponset River near Dorchester and Milton, now owned by the MDC, as the site for a new $6 million MBTA transit facility. It would replace the Bennett St. yards in Cambridge, the planned site for the library. It is clear that the marshland area is the best location for the new yards in metropolitan Boston. The results of a survey, to be released this week; show that no houses will be destroyed and no town lands used up. Earlier surveys have shown that the 12-acre Bennett St. site...
...long search for a new transit site has badly hurt the Library and the University. Both have several million dollars tied up in the project, and, while they are forced to wait, costs are rising. People across the country who have donated money to the Library are growing impatient and disillusioned. Worst, of all, the Library and its educational facilities, of great value to historians and political scientists alike, cannot be used...
...Governor faces strong opposition. Last summer Dorchester residents were able to block the use of another site for the transit facilities near Codman St. in Dorchester. They feared that the yards would lower property values and ruin the neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that...
...soon as the bill does become law, it will take one and one-half to two years to complete the relocation of the transit facilities, according to both Kennedy Library and MBTA officials...
After a long search to find a place to relocate the Cambridge transit facilities, MBTA officials settled on a 15-acre site in Dorchester near Codman Sq. The relocation was intended to be only temporary, and plans provided that an unsightly car-washing machine be well hidden...