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Harvard Square, T strike

Description: Traffic on Massachusetts Avenue through Harvard Square. Subway kiosk with sign “Rapid Transit To All Points.” Cars stopped at corner of Dunster Street. Cars stopped on Boylston (JFK) Street. Sign for The Garage and Strawberries Records. “Closed” sign at red line station entrance. Out of Town News. Stacks of newspapers. Boston Herald American front page headline “Walkout may halt T today.” Yellow electric cable buses parked in Bennett Street MBTA yard.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/06/1978

North Station

Description: Commuter train terminal of North Station. Commuters wait on outdoor platform. PA voice announces track numbers, train stops, departure times. Two conductors talk to passenger. Railroad bed strewn with litter. Blue engine car. B&M (Boston and Maine) logo. Man reads newspaper while waiting. Man carries bouquet of flowers. Men carry briefcases. People move en masse to board train. Man smokes. Train slowly pulls out of station, sounds whistle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/02/1978

Southeast Expressway, Columbia Station

Description: On-ramp to Southeast Expressway. Snow piled high on road shoulders. Heavy traffic. Tracking view of taillights. MBTA snow plow on tracks at Columbia red line station. Full moon - a glowing yellow sphere against grayish sky framed amid bare tree branches. Four lanes of oncoming traffic at dusk.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978

Southwest corridor groundbreaking

Description: Gov. Michael Dukakis, Lt. Gov. Tom O'Neill, MBTA chair Robert Kiley, transportation secretary Fred Salvucci, state Sen. Joe Timilty at groundbreaking for southwest corridor subway tunnel. Rev. Bradford Bryant gives benediction. Dick Buck, senior member of MBTA board. Some attendees wear hard hats with Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc. logo. Ted Landsmark talks about minority contractor involvement, economic development, neighborhood input. Col. Warren Higgins lists all construction and engineering participants. Kiley reads message from Sen. Edward Brooke (who is away at Hubert Humphrey's funeral). Salvucci intros Dukakis to speak about priority of mass transit over highway funding. He invokes HHH and MLK (on birthday). Dukakis poised to throw lever to operate pile driver inaugurating project.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/16/1978

T after snowstorm

Description: Green line trolley cars parked in snow. 15 teens shovel median strip along tracks in Brookline. Old orange trolley pulls to stop, rings bell, slowly proceeds on Beacon Street. Traffic rounds Newton Corner. View down onto Mass. Pike from overpass. Sign points to Charlesbank Road.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1978