Description: Construction of Porter Square T station on extension of MBTA red line. Heavy equipment and workers in front of BayBank branch. Traffic backed up on Massachusetts Avenue. Perini crane. Claw shovel excavates pit, releases dirt into dump truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1979
Description: Video starts with people speaking over color bars. B-roll of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority advisory board meeting. Interview with Robert Foster, chair of MBTA. He is requesting a larger operating budget. He discusses the work done by the MBTA and their attempts develop a better relationship with the advisory board. He speaks of plans for transportation demands during Pope John Paul II's visit. They shoot cutaways. Interview with Ed Novakoff, advisory board representative from Brookline, who complains about green line LRVs, and does not support giving the MBTA a larger operating budget. Several takes of reporter standup in the MBTA lot, with buses in the background.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1979
Description: Roxbury street scenes. Black pedestrians. Grove Hall bus. Squeal of orange line elevated trolley on overhead tracks. People board bus. Nubian Notion on Dudley Street. Traffic, many taxis pass through intersection. District 2 Boston police station. Cars on Columbia Road. Two UPI B+W stills of murder scene on Fellows Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1979
Description: Small airlines at Logan Airport. Passengers waiting at Piedmont terminal. American Airlines planes cross on wet tarmac. Piedmont plane parked. Signs for Braniff, Lufthansa, Iberia, Northwest Orient, Van Dusen Aviation, Butler Aviation, Swissair. Braniff terminal. Northwest Orient and National ticket counters and gate area.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1979