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y NOTE WONOERLAND 7 THERE HOLDERS Of PREPAID PASSES. ON DECEMBER , 1977 WERE 22,404 2903 THIS AMOUNTS TO AN ESTIMATED (44 ,608 ) PASSENGERS PER DAY, NOT INCLUDED IN TOTALS BELOW REVERE BEACH I OAK 8R0VC 1266 1316 MALOEN CENTER BEACHMONT 2549 1569 SUFFOLK DOWNS 1142 ORIENT< NTS 3450 WELLINGTON 5122 WOOO ISLANC PARK 1071 AIRPORT SULLIVAN SQUARE 1397 6668 I MAVERICK LCOMMUNITY college 5062 LECHMERE| 2049 5645 L.NORTH STATION 22,205 6690 HARVARD HAYMARKET 6925 BOWDOIN , AQUARIUM 5288 1896 I 123 KENDALL GOV CTR 1 8882 CENTRAL™ CHARLES^ STATE 12503 9170 4828 park 2 2 766 i WASHINGTON 24629 BOYLSTON SOUTH STATION UNDER 4 559 (ESSEX 8869 ARLINGTON 5034 10339 "COPLEY BOSTON COLLEGE KENMORE 12102 6102 12933 WATER TOWN BEACON ST. 9225' BROADWAY HIGHLAND AUDITORIUM [PRUDENTIAL BRANCH I5I3C 1868 (DOVER 4169 6063 2976 SYMPHONY NORTHEASTERN 1211 HUNTINGTON AVE. 13000 'NORTHAMPTON 3830 duole . 'STREET (ANDREW 6267 3809 MASSACHUSETTS BAY TRANSPORTATION AUTHORITY ricumt inoicati COLUMBIA APFKOIIUATC 4986 ONE WAY TRAFFIC 40KITT10 AT RAPID TRANSIT LINES STATIONS (EGLESTON SAVIN HILL 15 98 AMD AT 3610 SUBWAY ENTRANCES DECEMBER 7,1977 [GREEN 1657 FIELDS CORNER 4032 SHAWMUT 1448 FOREST HILLS ASHMONT NORTH OUINCY I I I 99 8948 3930 WOLLASTON 2761 7935 QUINCY CENTER M b 6433 It ANNUAL REPORT Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/annualreportmass1978mass BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1978 ROBERT R. KILEY Chairman and Chief Executive Officer RICHARD D. BUCK GUIDO R. PERERA, JR. "V CLAIRE R. BARRETT THEODORE C. LANDSMARK NEW MEMBERS OF THE BOARD — 1979 ROBERT L. FOSTER PAUL E. MEANS Chairman and Chief Executive Officer March 20, 1979 - January 29. 1979 - THE YEAR IN PICTURES Administrator's Award for Outstanding Public Service presented to Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority for displaying extraordinary initiative in advancing urban transportation in the public interest Administrate! v/ Lrban Ma%\ fransporutioi September 25, 1978 Adnumslrati'Hi ORANGE LINE RELOCATION U.S. SECRETARY of Transportation Brocl' Adams, center, in Boston on August 11, am nounces federal approval of a $669 million Southwest Corridor Project consisting o> relocating the MBTA's Orange Line anc rebuilding Amtrak's Northeast Corridor bee tween Forest Hills and Back Bay. Jm Secretary also announced a $44,675,00(ii grant from the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) to cover 80 percent o: first-year construction costs. Applauding thn good news, announced at a news conference* held at a Roxbury site cleared in the 1960;; for Interstate Route 95, are Senator Edwartn W. Brooke, left, and Senator Edward M. Kerr nedy. MAIN SPEAKER at the January 1 1 ground breaking ceremony, officially marking the start of the first subway construction in the Southwest Corridor — the South Cove Tunnel — was Governor Michael S. Dukakis. Listening to his remarks are. left to right. Lieutenant Governor Thomas P. O'Neill III. and MBTA Directors Claire R. Barrett and Theodore C. Landsmark. MAP SHOWS route of the Midland Branch that is being reconstructed and upgraded from a freight line to a passenger line with three new stations. Most MBTA commuter rail trains and all Amtrak trains will operate on this new route, starting in the Fall of 1979. while the Southwest Corridor Project is under construc- tion. IT TRAINEES from the Southwest Corridor area received instruction in design, construction, transportation, and related professions e MBTA's Educational Training Program which provided Summer jobs for some 29 high school-age Corridor residents. The program anded in the Fall and is continuing in 1979. r RED LINE HARVARD ALEWIFE EXTENSIO CERTIFICATE naming the Harvard Square Kiosk to the National Register of Historic Places is presented on April 20 to MBTA Chairman Robert R. Kiley. right, by Paul Guzzi. Secretary of the Commonwealth and Chairman of the Massachusetts Historical Commission which administers the National Historic Preservation Act in this state During construction of the new Harvard Square Station, the masonry and glass kiosk with its wide overhanging copper roof framed in metal arched ribs will be dismantled and safely stored for future restoration when con- struction work in the area is completed. TEMPORARY STATIONS at Harvard Square for Red Line passengers and Porter Square for MBTA commuter rail passengers represent initial construction work on the $491 million, federally-aided Red Line Extension from Harvard Square to Alewife Brook Parkway. The temporary Harvard-Brattle Station, upper left, in the Eliot Yards, and a second temporary station, Harvard-Holyoke, opposite Holyoke Center, will serve transit riders while a new Harvard Station is built. The new Cambridge Station lower left, on the South Acton commuter rail line, is ac- cessible from Somerville Avenue instead of Massachusetts Avenue. A new permanent station for both transit and commuter rail passengers is planned for Porter Square. PARK STREET STATION ANOTHER HONOR was bestowed on the nation's first subway, built in 1897. when the American Society of Civil Engineers unveiled a bronze plaque at the Tremont Street entrance to the Park Street Station The new plaque is similar to the one installed at the entrance in 1964, designating the subway as a Registered National Historical Landmark WASHINGTON STREET CONCOURSE AN UNDERGROUND MINI MALL, under construc- tion, was created by the modernization of the 64-year old Washington Station Concourse con nection between the Orange and Red Lines By year's end, six of the 11 shops in the mini-mall were open for business, selling flowers, fruit, cof- fee, sandwiches, keys, newspapers, model trains, etc. TRADITIONAL RIBBONS were cut by Governor Michael S. Dukakis on May 19 at the Orange Line's new fare collection area on the Washington Station Concourse Looking on are MBTA Direc- tors Claire R Barrett and Theodore C Landsmark Other improvements included new ceramic wall tiles, new rubber flooring, new stairways and escalators, new entrances to Jordan Marsh's and Filene's basement stores, new lighting, direc- tional signs, and steel-sheethed supporting col- umns. RED LINE BRAINTREE EXTENSION TRACKWORK PROGRESSES on the Red Line's Braintree Extension from Quincy Center Station to a new Braintree Station and 1 ,200-car parking garage in the vicinity of the Route 3 interchange and Union Street. South Braintree. The extension is scheduled to be opened for revenue service in late 1979. An in- termediate station, named Quincy Adams, is under construction in South Quincy as are two parking garages with spaces for 2.000 cars. This complex is scheduled to be completed in 1981. OUTH STATION TRANSPORTATION CENTER PLANNED INTERMODAL transportation center is shown in this cross-section of the architect's model of South Station which, at the time of its dedication on December 30. 1898, was the nation's largest railroad station. The Transportation Center will include an 1 1-track layout, designed for use by both Am- trak's intercity trains and the MBTA's commuter rail trains; a 500-car parking facility and intercity and commuter bus terminal, both to be built on air rights above the track and platform area; a new station concourse and lobby, and an interior passageway between the railroad station and the MBTA's Red Line South Station. NEW BLUE LINE CAR BLUE LINE RIDERS and others viewed one of the 70 new Blue Line cars at an open house held at the Orient Heights Shops on December 10. The PROPOSED i * il f new fleet will replace 24 cars, built in 1923 and which are the oldest transit cars operating in the United States, and 36 cars built in 1952. The new LYNN cars are 48 feet 10 inches long and weigh 30 tons. They have two four-foot wide doors on each side and can accommodate 40 seated passengers and EXTENSION! 107 standees. They have modern safety features, two-way radio communications and public address systems; gray-tinted safety glass windows, one-quarter inch thick, rubber tile flooring, and along-the-wall bucket-type seating with an aisle wide enough for a wheelchair. PROPOSED EXTENSION of the Blue Lin a new Wonderland Station and 2,000-caa ing garage in Revere to Lynn is shown c map. Two stations in Lynn are proposed would be in West Lynn with parking f cars and the other which would servee transit and commuter rail passengers be at Central Square with a 2,000-car p garage. GREEN LINE NEW FACILITY for light maintenance work on streetcars and Light Rail Vehicles (LRVs) is under construction at the MBTA's 2.5-acre Lake Street Yards, Green Line terminus of the Commonwealth Avenue Line. The one-story brick and concrete building will house two inspection pits, one new and the other a rehabilitated existing pit. A smaller building for crew quarters and storage rooms is connected to the main building. Yard storage tracks will accommodate 23 LRVs. COMMUTER RAIL IMPROVEMENTS NEW LARGE WAITING CANOPY and platform have been built on the Boston-bound side of the tracks at Norwood Central Station where the existing station building will be renovated and new or improved parking lots built for about 200 cars. The work is part of the federally- aided Commuter Rail Improvements Project for the Franklin Branch. \SH' Mrs. Henry D. Hersey of Needham breaks the traditional bottle of champagne to name Locomotive 1000 in honor of her husband at -emony held at South Station November 21. Watching are Mr. Hersey and Governor Michael S. Dukakis who was principal speaker. At the is "Mr. Commuter Rail" for . Mr. Hersey who is chairman of the 65 "outer" cities and towns on the MBTA Advisory Board and known as idvocacy of preserving railroad passenger service, waves a Needham banner from the engineer's cab. MARKETING THE ® CEWTAAl *Vt EVERETT SO. CENTRAL SO.