Word: tunnelled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...teen-agers in red berets emerge from the shadows at the other end of the dark platform. They are silent. But at the sight of them the wolves leave their victim, disappearing at a run down the track toward the next station, their shouted obscenities echoing back through the tunnel. As the Curtis rescued man tries to say thanks, his words are drowned in the roar of an oncoming train. He gets aboard, shakily waving one hand at his young rescuers in a half salute...
...spokesman for Gov. Edward J. King and Secretary of Transportation Barry Locke denied on Monday reports that the King administration will scrap plans to renovate Boston's Central Artery in favor of constructing a third Boston Harbor tunnel crossing...
...Perini Corporation, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority's (MBTA) contractor for tunnel construction, plans to dig an 80 by 40-ft, hole, known as a "haul shaft," at the corner of Garfield St. and Mass. Ave. Cambridge residents have turned long-standing complaints about this shaft into affidavits for the suit as part of its new focus...
...suit charges the MBTA with substantially deviating from the original Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), which had not considered the removal of 90 per cent of the dirt for the Harvard-Porter Square tunnel from the hole on Garfield St. The suit demands that the MBTA prepare a new report...
...suit also focuses on a report prepared by a geo-technical consulting firm which indicates that "extensive deposits of very corrosive acid sludge lie directly in the path of the proposed Red Line extension tunnel," an affidavit filed by the Red Line Alert states. The defendants claim the original EIS does not mention the problem of the acid sludge...