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0, THE BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MARCH 20, 1994 City 5 BOSTON wye rTrrf Give Us Blue Line stations face renovations 1 Blue Line modernization project Your project will modernize, hike capacity Aquarium Station: (Early 1995-2000) Joint MBTA-CAT Project Complex construction and surface traffic impacts Ceiling of station to be Central Artery Floor State Street Station: (Early 1995-late 1998) Complex Construction and surface traffic impacts Locating and designing headhouses in historic area requires long lead time Orient Heights Station: (Late 1995- Mid 1998) Serves as end-of-line station during shuttle bus program Cannot reconstruct until end of shuttle bus program Wood Island Station: Underway (to be completed in Fall 95) Deteriorated station infrastructure Back-up to Airport Station Wonderland Station: (May 1994-Late 1995) Revere Beach Station: (May 1994-Late 1995) Beachmont Station: (April 1994-April 1996) Suffolk Downs Station: (April 1994-April 1996) Free shuttle bases: between Wonderland and Orient Heights stations (June 1994-June 1995) Deteriorated station infrastructures Ail stations can be done concurrently Cannot replace Beachmont ViaductStation and maintain service Suffolk Downs cannot be end-of-line Maverick Station: (1996-1999) Surface Traffic Impacts Can be reconstructed independent of others Airport Station: (1997- 2000) Joint MBTA-CAT Project Need completion of Wood Island as back-up in case station shutdown needed Government Center Station: (1997-2000) Locating and designing City Hall area headhouses requires long lead time Serves as final end-of-line station Close BowdoinProvide Ventilation: (2000) Increases Blue Line headways Cannot serve 6-car trains adequately Better track geometry for future Red to Blue line connector Provide Car House For 6-car Train Sets: (1998-2000) Environmental clearance needed (Begin 1994) Major site development challenges Needed before 6-car service begins Turn Your Old, Tired Luggage Or Briefcase Into A 10 20 Credit Toward The Purchase Of Any New Briefcase Or Attache Not To Be Combined With Other Promotions Offer end March 26, 1994 te Comply with 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act Repair deteriorated station infrastructures Wonderland 40 years Revere BeaCh 40 years Purveyors Of Fine Leather Goods For Over 200 Years 60 Franklin Street, Boston, MA (617) 542-9234 South Shore Plaza, Braintree (617) 848-4072 51 Central Street, WeUesley (617) 237-5950 Beachmont 40 years Suffolk Downs 10 years Orient Heights 23 years Wood Island 42 years $467 Million Improvements Comfortable, Customer Friendly Stations Longer platforms for 6-car trains Barrier-free access for everyone Improved lighting and security Artwork, finishes, landscaping, painting, and more Reliable Service Upgraded signal and power systems Improved yard and storage facilities New Blue Line cars Replacement Bus Service One Year Starting June 25, 1994 Parallels Blue Line from Orient Heights to Wonderland Serves all stations Approximates Blue Line schedule Handicapped accessible buses available Seeing is believing Support 6-car trains for future ridership growth Provide Central ArteryTunnel Project mitigation Enhance operational flexibility Airport 27 years Maverick 23 years Aquarium 26 years State 30 years 26 years Government Center ililliliiiil SOURCE Massachusetts Say Transportation Authority Makes even little lines almost disappear GLOBE STAFF GRAPHIC New CamoCare Under-Eye Therapy trance easier by replacing metal tokens with electronic cards that could be purchased in various denominations. A Blue Line task force of more than 25 business, community and po litical leaders was appointed last week, with monthy meetings scheduled to air suggestions, complaints and recommendations. "The Blue Line's time has finally come," said Rooney. BLUE LINE Continued from Page 1 the first underwater transit tunnel in the nation. One result of the project will be increased capacity.

The line currently operates four-car trains and car- ries 54,000 passengers per day. At project's end, all of the stations along the 6-mile line will be able to accommodate six-car trains, Howell said. "By the year 2010, we anticipate a 25 percent increase in ridership," Howell said. "Without moderniza-tion, increased capacity and easier access, we'd be turning people away at rush hour. The lines you see now i at Government Center would be looping around City Hall Plaza." Some 15,000 passengers a day use the Government Center entrance, Howell said.

Those who have been riding the line for generations before it got its color code may see a revival of an old mezzanine and stairway that once accommodated passengers at the old Scollay Square Station. Scollay Square during 1 World War II in particular was well known to tens of thousands of military servicemen for its all-night movie theaters, cafeterias, strip joints and bars. MBTA designers would like to see the old Scollay Square Station stairways used to create new Government Center Station entrances at the Center Plaza office complex and at the nonfunctional water fountain in City Hall Plaza. At Wood Island in East Boston, work crews have already begun demolishing the bus and train station, which will be replaced by a new ground-level facility. An elevated bus turnaround loop will be replaced by a ground-level covered passenger pickup area and turnaround loop off Bennington Street.

Rapid transit passengers would also enter and board at ground level, rather than walking up a ramp and then down several flights of stairs. "This station will be in complete compliance with the federal Americans with Disabilities Act," said Karen E. Arpino, design manager at the MBTA. The station is scheduled to reopen by the end of 1997. Wood Island, Arpino said, also would be used as a backup to Airport Station should that facility have to be closed during construction.

Airport Station, too, would become a ground-level station. The shuttle bus viaduct that serves the airline terminals now is being taken by the Central Artery-Tunnel project. "We are talking with Massport and the CAT people about the possibility of a people mover that would serve the airline terminals and the hotels connecting with Airport Station," she said. At Aquarium Station, MBTA and Central Artery planners are beginning to coordinate construction scheduled to begin in early 1995. The roof of the station will eventually become the floor of the depressed Central Artery.

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With additional work there, the station will be in good shape should a Charles Station connector on the Red Line ever become a reality." Before the year 2000, said MBTA assistant general manager James Rooney, some 36 new Blue Line cars will be purchased to make up the six-car trains, and the maintenance facility at the Orient Heights yard will be expanded. "This effort is not just to help commuters during the "Big Dig" but to attract more passengers permanently," Rooney said. "We hope peo1 pie will realize that they can have fast, comfortable access to and from and around the city by using the The project is being partially funded by the federal government, although most of the work will be financed through state bond issues. The MBTA, Rooney said, also is dedicating $8 million in efforts to reduce noise along the line by such methods as rail grinding at noisy spots, tuning wheels for proper balance, placing noise barriers in some sections and reducing vibrations in others. In addition, he said, the MBTA hopes to make fare collection and en Highest possible cash prices Show us your best offer Free Estimates In Our Office, Your'Bank or Home (Since 1920) ESTATE BUYING GROUP Bread and Circus 916 Walnut St.

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