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• Massachusetts May Drop Route Number for Famed Roadway.

  - 2004-02-25

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 25--It's one of the region's most famous roadways, celebrated in Jonathan Richman songs and home to the nation's first high-tech corridor. But its name, Route 128, may one day be...

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• Massachusetts Agency Eyes Cab-Fee Hikes at Boston Airport.

  - 2004-01-07

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 7--The price to simply get in a cab at Logan International Airport could increase to $7 by April 1, a proposed Massachusetts Port Authority fee hike that taxi, shuttle, and limousine drivers...

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• Rail-Line Fate Remains Up in Air, Massachusetts Official Says.

  - 2003-07-31

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 31--No decision has been made on the fate of the Greenbush commuter rail line, Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey told members of the South Shore Chamber of Commerce at a morning breakfast yesterday,...

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• Partner in Massachusetts Rail Group Loses Contract to Manage British Trains.

  - 2003-06-28

  By Mac Daniel,, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 28--Connex Transport, a key business partner in the consortium that begins running the MBTA's commuter rail next week, was thrown off a major British rail contract yesterday for fiscal mismanagement. ...

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• Boston Subway Project Stuck between Rock and a Hard Place.

  - 2003-04-19

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 19--A $601 million MBTA project to sink three tunnels in the Fort Point Channel and bring the Silver Line to South Boston has been delayed, according to T officials, not by cost...

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• Man Arrested at Boston's Logan Airport Carrying Inert Grenade.

  - 2003-02-27

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 27--One of Boston's top advertising executives was arrested yesterday at Logan Airport after he was found carrying an inert, hollowed-out hand grenade through security. Walter "Skip" Pile, 55, of...

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• Massachusetts to Review Conduct of Former Boston-Area Subway chief.

  - 2003-01-29

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 29--State Transportation Secretary Daniel A. Grabauskas said yesterday he would review the conduct of former MBTA general manager Robert H. Prince Jr., involving two T contracts. Prince, who worked for...

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• Massachusetts Suspends Highway Study.

  - 2002-09-26

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 26--The Massachusetts Highway Department yesterday abruptly suspended a feasibility study on a $100 million plan to improve the Interstate 93-Route 128 interchange north of Boston, a rare move that residents in...

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• Massachusetts Port Authority, 10 Other Companies Are Cited for Idling Buses.

  - 2002-08-08

  By Mac Daniel, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 8--The US Environmental Protection Agency has cited the Massachusetts Port Authority and 10 private bus companies that operate at Logan Airport after an environmental sting last month found several buses ...

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• Boston Suburbs Criticize Lack of 'Reverse Commuter' Trains.

  - 2001-09-23

  By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 23--With rush-hour traffic threatening to strangle economic growth along Interstate 495, local business and political leaders are growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of "reverse commuter" rail service to the region. ...

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