Word: trolley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EARLY afternoon. Rush hour still to come, the Lechmere-bound trolley was coasting up Beacon Street, collecting a steady mix of students and the elderly...
...tell 'ya, it's crazy with Nixon..." The voice trailed off and continued in a lower tone, indistinguishable amidst the screeching of the trolley. After appearing to listen for several seconds, the driver shouted back with agitation...
COOLIDGE CORNER stop. About ten people pushed their way onto the trolley, plunked their forty-five cents into the farebox, and moved to the rear, the driver repeating his drone, "Don't forget your fares, please, your fares." Meanwhile, the elderly woman next to me had been leaning forward towards the floor; she reached down awkwardly, coming back up with a bunch of dollar bills as wrinkled as her paste-white hands. Thoroughly bewildered, she looked...
...Green Line's problem is that it really isn't a subway at all. It's more a glorified trolley line and its crowded, jerky electrified buses can't compare with the sleek trains of the other lines. And it's a shame too, because the Green Line has some of the best stations and routes in the system. The Copley Square station is probably the best looking from the outside, with its iron grillwork, blending well with the general atmosphere of the Square...
Leverett got into the act in March when Master Leigh Hoadley and the Leverett House Civic Improvement Society proposed a connection between Gore and McKinlock Halls. The new wing over Plympton St. would support a bell tower and include a tunnel for pedestrians, automobiles and a trolley. "If people are going to resist, we shall arm and march tomorrow," Arthur N. Schwarz '56, president of the Civic Society, said...