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34 The Boston Sunday Globe March 31. 1985 puts last link in Red Line extension THE BOSTON GLOBE GOES TO COLLEGE, TOO Call 929-2J22 and we'll send The Globe to your collegiate son or daughter. VoWASHDC Depart Boston Fridays RT JET. CAR. 2 NIGHTS HOTEL 'Inclmdmm tmx service CRIMSON TRAVEL Jewelers -i TO TRAINS ft 01 James F.

O'Leary, MBTA general MBTA Station. manager, speaks at yesterday's dedication ceremony for the Alewife GLOBE STAFF PHOTOS BY JANET KN0H Construction workers listen to speakers at the Alewife Station dedication ceremony, Slightly out of the way. Truly out of the ordinary. 6th floor. 387 Washington Boston 617-542-7974 But It was O'Neill who grew up in Norcn tjamDnage ana swanv 1 J.

1 1 A. 1 1 Ctliu oivaitu tit mini lis 1 i ii a jratu tittit tuv tJ-u tion who stole the show. He told of the people who lived in the area and stories from what he termed "the haunts of my boyhood." And he said that the completion of the Red Line extension marked the "opening of an avenue In Cambridge and Somerville, an opening whicH enhances the economy and an opening which has saved the cities." When the first passengers came onto the platforms to board the trains, they found there was no charge for the ride. Parking fees of $3 will be in effect today In the garage, but the subway ride itself will be free, O'Leary said. Tomorrow morning, the normal 60 cent fare for the ride will be charged, he said, The Red Line now runs from the North Cambridge-Arlington line through a station at Davis Square In Somerville to Porter, Harvard, Central and Kendall squares In Cambridge, to Charles street, Park street, Washington street and South Station in downtown Boston and on to Broadway and Andrew stations in South Boston.

From there, the line branches out Into two routes, one to Ash-mont in Dorchester and the other through Quincy to Braintree. loons, murals and imported tiles -opened with traditional speech-making ceremonies. Dukakis told the crowd that 85 percent of the federal money that built the Red Line Extension came from funds originally Intended to a build an inner belt and highway network around Greater Boston -construction which would have destroyed some 5000 homes and hundreds of businesses. "One of the major reasons we're here today," he said, "is that 20 years ago residents of communities throughout metropolitan Boston gathered in a massive grass-roots movement to say 'no' to highways which would have destroyed their neighborhoods, and said we should concentrate our resources on mass transit." He remembered then-governor Francis W. Sargent freezing in- ner-belt plans for construction in 1970, of Sargent's efforts in behalf of the Red Line extension, and how its construction began in 1978.

State Transportation Secretary Frederick P. Salvuccl said, "Since the opening of the original Harvard Square Station in 1912. there have. been dreams of extending Red Line service to the northwest. With the opening of Alewife and thanks to the efforts of thousands of people, those dreams are now cast in cement." MBTA General Manager James F.

O'Leary called the Alewife opening "a major milestone." By Douglas S. Crocket Globe Staff Fifty-two years ago. In the dark days of America's Great Depression, a Cambridge mayor named John D. Lynch was trying to find projects to put people to work. He suggested that the subway system be extended from Harvard Square to the North Cambridge-Arlington line.

No one paid attention. Three years later, in 1936, a freshman state representative from Cambridge named Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. filed a bill asking that funds be provided to build such a subway extension. It failed.

Yesterday the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority opened its Alewife Station to the public, completing its Red Line extension from Harvard Square to the North Cambridge-Arlington line. It took more than 50 years, including some $574 million, countless and often bitter legislative; civic and community hearings, 20 years of planning and seven years of construction to complete the 3.2-mile Red Line extension. More than 200 federal, state and local officials watched yesterday as Gov. Michael S. Dukakis and Thomas P.

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