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Although Governor Volpe's bill for the purchase of the Old Colony line moved toward final enactment in the Legislature yesterday, indications were that the legislative action alone might not save the plan for a South Shore transit system...
...Senate and the House resurrected yesterday what they had killed last week, as both approved Governor Volpe's bill to purchase the controversial Old Colony line of the New Haven Railroad for use as part of a rapid transit system to the South Shore...
Amalgamation of the Old Colony with the MTA is a major part of Governor Volpe's plan to revitalize the long-suffering Boston transit system. It is reported that inherent in Volpe's proposal is the hope that an efficient rapid transit to the South Shore communities will help to decrease the growing automobile traffic from that area to the vicinity of down-town Boston...
Massachusetts' hopes for an effective express transit system to the South Shore and perhaps Harvard's designs for the Bennett St. MTA yards quite suddenly began to look futile yesterday. The State Senate finally rejected Governor Volpe's plan to purchase the Old Colony Line of the New Haven Railroad...
...Senate voted 19 to 21 not to reconsider its Tuesday action in defeating the bill to take up the state's purchase option which expired last night. The bill was one of several introduced by Volpe in an attempt to bring order out of chaos in the Boston transit system...