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BOSTON BROOK LINE UllbaU (Slobt CAMBRIDGE SOMERVILLE KEEPING THE FAITH I We have never given up. ALBERTO VASALLO Jr. On the water damage at the offices of El Mundo, a Spanish weekly he and his son publish in Cambridge. Page 10 OFF THE CUFF Q. And A with Elisabeth: Zweig, director of the Greater Boston office of Catholic Charities.

Page 2 OCTOBER 27, 1996 TO ttSr "W- A slow, costly ride to downtown Roxbury, South End residents press for one fare and efficiency 1 1 1 1 as." -v. A By JoeYonan GLOBE CORRESPONDENT ff hen Dianne Wilkerson wants to take public transportation 1 from her Lower Roxbury home to her State House office, she can walk the few blocks to the Massachusetts Avenue Orange Line station and ride a mere four stops to Down town Crossing. If the state senator then wants to connect and continue elsewhere, it's a cinch. She is, after all, at the hub of the city transit system. For many of her constitu ents, however, especially those in Dudley Square, such a trip The lack of a convenient, one-fare trip downtown and beyond has been irritating South End and Roxbury residents ever since the demise of the elevated Orange Line.

isn't nearly as easy. They are consiped to the 49 bus: a crowded, slow, uncomfortable ride down Washington Street Once downtown, connecting means they must get off the bus, go into the train station and pay again. The lack of a convenient, one-fare trip downtown and beyond has been irritating South End and Roxbury residents ever since the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority tore down the elevated Orange Line along Washington Street almost 10 years ago. As the MBTA moves ahead with controversial plans to install an electric bus service in GLOBE PHOTO CHITOSE SUZUKI From left (near fence), Carolyn Fahy and Seamus Tuohy; the children, clockwise from left: Ethan Fahy, 10; Michael Clark (near fence), Joe Fahy, Haley Clark, 13 months and Nat Fahy, Is playing with the cat, "BoBo." Roslindale mothers By Serine Steakley GLOBE CORRESPONDENT kOSLINDALE On the surface, it might seem as if Ozzie and their wits "Harriet Nelson, the nuclear television family of 1950s fame, could i keep be living on Johnswood Road in Roslindale. On the block-long 'loop at the top of a small hill, a tight-knit community thrives and stead of the light rail favored by some, many residents are demanding that whatever system is built must lead directly into the Ts network of trains without requiring an extra token.

"The idea that we want service that's connected to the rest of the about them dozens of children live and play, watched over by involved adults. Johnswood Road, however, is a '90s community. And nowhere is the changing culture of the past four decades more evident than in the name JOHNSWOOD, Page 12 STORIES THAT ARE DOWN BUT NOT OUT system doesn't sound outlandish to me," Wilkerson says. "It just doesn't People want to get on and off a bus without getting rained on. I don't think that's too much to ask." The MBTA recently held a series of public meetings on its three designs for the electric bus system, which would run in a dedicated lane with overhead wires (unless natural-gas buses are bought).

Instead of comments about the design, however, the heard from some angry residents who continue to press their demand that the agency build a light-rail vehicle system. Only the rail, they say, represents the "comparable service" the state promised them when the el came tumbling down. The Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Council voted Tuesday to support the restoration of light rail vehicles along the full length of the Arborway Una Page 16. On the other side of the debate are many neighborhood association leaders in the South End, who say the electric bus is good enough and want the project to move ahead. They don't want to wait any longer for TRANSIT, Page 12 ByAlanLupo GLOBE STAFF elevated structure, prepares to grind its way past the neighborhood, the new sounds will be the rat-a-tat-tat of jackhammers and the squeal of giant cranes.

North Enders and Big Dig officials have been meeting to prepare for the inevitable friction be sounded up and down the narrow streets of the city's oldest neighborhood were the shouts of peddlers and the melodious chatter of people on the corners. By the late 1950s, that was drowned out by the roar of auto traffic on and under the elevated Central Artery, which split the North End and the waterfront from the rest of the city. Now, as the $7.78 billion Big Dig project, which includes depressing the artery and removing the tween the needs of construction crews and those of Stories, as in the ballad about old soldiers, never die. But unlike old soldiers, they don't "just fade away." They lurk about for years and sporadically require an airing so the reader will know their status. On occasion, City Weekly will check on what ever happened to THE NORTH END the sounds that re residents and shopkeepers.

The Big Dig project is under pressure to finish ONGOING, Page 12 'People love it. It's a lot of fan. BRENDAN KENNEDY A trivia whiz kid from Dublin i Put to the test at the pub By Jenifer McKim GLOBE CORRESPONDENT THViEOUT- You set your clocks back an hour, right? Billy Wilkinson takes time out from working on the Custom House tower in Boston. The property is being converted into luxury units and a museum GLOBE STAFF PHOTO OAVID RYAN This is no secret men's club, it's "pub quiz" night at The Field. Behind the closed door, a group of doctors, lawyers, students and bartenders of both genders are pummeling their heads and pulling their hair struggling over such questions as "What is the plural of dwarf?" and "How many times has Martin Scorsese won Best Director?" "People love it," said Brendan Kennedy, 35, a trivia whiz kid from Dublin who has been running the game for 2V4 years in various Boston bars.

"It's a lot of fun." Harking back to a tradition in Ireland, a growing number of Irish pubs in Boston are QUIZ, Page 9 CAMBRIDGE It's 'dark and smoky in the inside room of this crowded Irish pub in Central Square and absolutely quiet People huddle, together in groups, whispering con-spiratorially as they chug Guinness and drag on cigarettes. I Outside, bartenders stop interlopers at the door separating the hushed room from the main bar. "They are busy in there," they say with an Irish lilt "Wouldn't you like a beer at the i -mum ft iff Boston Notes 16 Brookline Notes 6 "Cambridge Notes 7 Somerville Notes 7 Platform: Issues are not defining the race in Brookline between Rep. John Businger and Jules Levine. Page 10.

Night Day. The second annual New England Black Hair Jfipo had something for nearly everyone. Page 13. Urban Oasis: Brookline lost Halm's Deli, but Duckworth Land, a bistro, fills the bilL Page 14. 1.