Word: transits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the Cambridge City Council and the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit Authority had dinner together Monday night, and incidentally, discussed the forthcoming sale of the MTA's Bennett St. yards...
...motion by Hayes requesting the trustees of the Metropolitan Transit authority to "retrain from selling or exposing of" the Bennett St. property ending a meeting with City representatives was passed 6-1. Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 cast the lone negative vote...
...Transit Gloria. Perhaps the boldest civic-works program on any ballot confronted the voters in three San Francisco Bay area counties. For years, San Francisco has been choking on traffic, despite a growing number of bridges and freeways. Forty-eight lanes of freeways now wind around the city, and 32 more are in the works. But city planners estimated that an additional 40 would be necessary to handle the region's projected population jump from 2,500,000 to 4,000,000 in the next decade...
Instead of programming even more freeways and bridges, city engineers drew up imaginative plans for a rapid-transit system that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy...
...Making matters even tougher was a state requirement that the proposed bond issue be passed by 60% or more of the voters. By 61.1% of the total vote of 714,425, citizens of the three counties agreed to shell out the necessary money to build the first major rapid-transit program in the U.S. since Cleveland...