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...development, Larry Burns, says GM hopes to sell fuel-cell-powered cars by 2010. Deere & Co., the maker of farm and construction equipment, is working on a hydrogen-powered forklift. And the Canadian government has pulled Hydrogenics into a $6.1 million project to deliver a fuel-cell-powered transit bus to the streets of Winnipeg, Man., by March 2005. Hydrogenics co-founder Pierre Rivard says fuel cells probably won't go mainstream for another 5 to 15 years, but with GM's backing, the $128 million publicly traded company, which lost $20.6 million last year, can probably afford to wait...
...week earlier, the MBTA representative Transit Realty Associates had sent more than 600 Boston-based performers a letter announcing 27 new regulations. Musicians were to follow the provisions beginning...
Associate Dean of the College Judith H. Kidd said that the main problem with noise comes from students in transit at night, particularly from the Quad to the River area...
Fresh, entertaining and colorful, the street musicians who perform in local Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) stations provide commuters with a diversion from the humdrum of public transit. Were original plans enforced, however, this would have been the first week that T commuters faced traveling without the accompaniment of live music. The MBTA had planned to put its Street Performer Regulations into effect on Monday. The regulations would, among some two dozen other provisions, prohibit amplified performances and use of several acoustic instruments—like trumpets—and impose a dress code for all performers. Fortunately popular criticism...
...response to terrorists fears seems completely spurious. Such threats are not documented and street musicians continue to thrive in other cities that are considered high-risk for terrorism; New York City, for example, continues to allow amplified street performers in its subways. In 1985, the New York Transit Authority started the Music Under New York (MUNY) program whereby musicians who wished to perform in subway stations were screened once a year via an application and audition process. Though given less preference for performance space than MUNY licensed musicians, those not licensed under MUNY can still perform. This system benefits commuters...