The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 32

12 THE BOSTON GLOBE THURSDAY. PKCEMBKH 3. 1987 Neighborhoods tmm (AMAICA PLAIN MBTA to decide soon on future of Arborway line: bus or trolley Trolley backers predict higher ridership, but street traffic a problem lit it 1 10 A V' 1 ji I Kf. 11 it Jl I If! vt- JJS XT fli lfcT'Ht fix 9- -Uul il' j. -a 1 "'u "3T''t I vCvV It it II ft i iv A i Aw Mm AOrkDM ivui-ui aui i yionesiaiipnoiouiiiurmic ncips uuaru up a vacant building on his street yesterday.

Almost all MBTA parking facilities, particularly those on the South Shore branch of the Red Line, fill up rapidly every morning. MBTA officials consider adding more parking at commuter rail and transit stations vital for getting drivers to stay off the congested highway system during the 1989-98 third harbor tunnel-depressed Central Artery project. The community college work is part of an $800,000 cont ract to design additional parking at eight stations. The seven others are: Maiden Center (Orange Line and rail), Hersey in Needham (rail), Norwood Depot (rail), Suffolk Downs in East Boston (Blue Line), Walertown (bus-trackless trolley), Wellesley Square (rail) and Woodland in Newton (Green Line). Bus, subway and commuter rail service will be beefed up the next three Sundays to accommodate holiday season shoppers heading to and from downtown Boston.

All South Station rail lines, which ordinarily do not have Sunday service, will run up to 10 trains on Sundays. Four-car instead of two-car trains will operate on the Red. Orange and Blue lines between 1 1:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m., and four extra trolleys will serve the Green Line between North Station and Kenmore. Hourly service will be instituted for the first time on two bus lines, the 92 Assembly Square Mall-downtown and 304 Water-town-downtown routes.

Service frequency will be increased on six other routes, including 20 percent more buses on the 39 Forest Hills-Copley and 49 Dudley-downtown routes. More information is available by calling 722-3200. the city is about to be choked by construction" downtown. Frank-lyn P. Salimbcne, a lawyer active in The Arborway Committee, told the MBTA board yesterday.

Restoring the trolley service would cost $37.4 million in capital investment and $5.9 million a year in extra operating costs, the most expensive option. But it is also projected to draw the most riders 20,880 a day, compared with 15.380 to 18.910 for each of the 10 others, a consultant's report shows. Frederick P. Salvucci, the state transportation secretary and MBTA chairman, promised officials "will take a long look at it." but cited "several major concerns." While the other streetcar branches of the Green Line on Beacon Street and Commonwealth Avenue run on reservations in the middle of the road, trains on the Arborway line would have to fight with traffic south of Brigham Circle, a headache both for the MBTA and for drivers, Salvucci said. In other MBTA developments yesterday: Plans moved forward for a new garage at the Community College Orange Line station in Charlestown, providing at least 700 spaces for commuters.

The board voted to spend $146,304 for more design work on the project. The site is a lot owned by the Boston Redevelopment Authority, where Bunker Hill Community College students currently park. The MBTA wants to build a garage on the lot, keeping the current ground-level spaces for students. No construction date has been set. MATTAPAN Residents board up drug haven Community group says despite calls to police, house used by addicts lives on Wildwood Street.

"The addicts go in there and shoot up. The people in the neighborhood are getting tired of it and want to get rid of it. They are afraid to go out of their houses at night." President and other ACORN members said the problem began several weeks ago when groups of men were frequently noticed entering or leaving the abandoned apartment house late at night or very early in the morning. The members said they had notified police, but the traffic had not stopped. Attempts by the group to determine the owner of the dwelling were fruitless, they said.

According to Angie Wilkerson, president BEACON HILL Peter J. Howe Globe Staff The decision on restoring Green Line trolley service in Jamaica Plain will finally be made late next month, winding up 18 months of community meetings and exhaustive studies, the MBTA voted yesterday. At stake is whether trolleys will return to the tracks from Brigham Circle to the Arborway stop, running along South Huntington Avenue, Centre Street and South Street, or whether that service will be replaced by buses. The trolley service was suspended south of Brigham Circle in 1985 because of construction on Huntington Avenue. Community activists have pressed for a one-seat, one-fare ride from Jamaica Plain downtown.

They have cited studies that show a full trolley service would draw almost 21.000 riders a day, more than any of the other options under consideration. But some MBTA officials cite what they call massive operational problems of $1 million light-rail vehicles battling traffic down a busy city street. Much of the service, they say, would only duplicate the Orange Line Southwest Corridor extension, which opened May 4. Within two weeks a report reviewing the 11 options for transit service along the Arborway line will be released. After a final public hearing in mid-January, the MBTA's directors will vote later in the month on which they will select.

The 10 nontrolley options would keep trolley service as far as Heath Street or Brigham Circle and add various bus routes. "The trolley option is the only option that will attract riders, and that's a significant issue, because iBlflCXSDCCXER Dustbuster Lightweight cordless vacuum has 2-way recharging system. Patented telescopic handle extends (or quick clean-ups. retracts foreasystorage. 9343 SPECIAL PRICE (iNiMimcriic Telephone 1 dl spccih pticf IIMMlHICTmC REGIU Cordess Telephone a Atiln pu'n 1iinf) SPtOAL PWCt 99 FT 7 $4B" 10 Infirmary tower vill shadov HiH foes say of ACORN, the building was said to be owned by the city, but "when we go down to City Hall we can't find any records on it." she said.

Attempts to obtain comment from Flynn administration officials were unsuccessful last night. The group yesterday boarded and secured the one first-floor front window that they said addicts used to enter and leave the building. Wilkerson said: "This was just meant lo be an awareness demonstration. We were trying to alert the other people in the neighborhood that they shouldn't stand by and let this catastrophe happen." ALEXANDER REID north: developer Jerome Rappa-port, who contends that the towers would affect properly values of the Charles River Park complex he built atop what was once the West End neighborhood. At 325 feet, the tallest proposed tower is roughly 100 feet higher, than the infirmary building and most of the Charles River Park buildings.

It would be 55 feet shorter than Rappa port's Longfellow Towers. Gleason's efforts have proved effective In the past. In 19K5. he, helped form Citizens for a Better New England Life, the group that fought, sued, and eventually rc-; shaped the Philip Johnson-designed headquarters for what is now The New England. On the strength of that victory, he was hired this summer by residents of Charles River Park's Hawthorne Place.

After legal delays, groundwork iias started for the 24-story lower, although Rappaport Is seeking a restraining order to prevent MGH from receiving its final ennit. "The time lor design review has passed," said Stephen Coyle, director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority. "The BRA supports the MGH proposal for a replacement facility. It's under Armed with boards, hammers and nails, an angry group of residents boarded up a vacant building on Wildwood Street in Matta-pan yesterday afternoon that they said was being used as a base for drug addicts. The group was led by representatives of ACORN the Massachusetts Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

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