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• Flock of starlings drop in on Boston businesses after roost demolished.

  - 2004-12-17

  By Donovan Slack, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 17--Skip Perry has to collect himself every time he looks outside his Causeway Street photo shop, where it's been two months since the elevated Green Line cloaked the street in shadow....

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• Boston-area residents accuse Massachusetts of breaking light-rail promises.

  - 2004-12-15

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 15--Angry residents from Somerville and Jamaica Plain packed a State House hearing yesterday, vowing to sue if state officials back away from plans for light rail lines in their neighborhoods, promised...

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• Car-use tax worth eyeing, Massachusetts official says.

  - 2004-12-02

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 2--The state transportation secretary said yesterday that taxing drivers based on how much they use their cars, to supplement the gas tax that helps pay for highway projects, is an experiment...

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• Quincy, Mass., office park ramps up for growth.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Thomas C. Palmer Jr., The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--Between 2,500 and 3,000 people already work at Crown Colony Office Park in Quincy; Flatley Co. is planning to add a 250,000-square foot building to the complex for about...

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• Boston transit proponents argue system expansion as life-or-death issue.

  - 2004-12-01

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--Advocates for expanded transit service in urban neighborhoods are turning to a new theme in their push for projects: Death. In Somerville, where residents are clamoring for an extension...

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• Engineers say Boston's Big Dig tunnels will need constant care against leaks.

  - 2004-12-01

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Dec. 1--The Big Dig's tunnels are structurally sound, despite hundreds of leaks, but keeping them safe will require constant inspection and an ongoing leak-patching program, two consulting engineers told a legislative panel yesterday. ...

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• Boston bus tunnel to open, but waterfront boom lags.

  - 2004-11-22

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 22--The MBTA's biggest expansion in decades -- a $601 million tunnel for electric buses from South Station through the South Boston waterfront -- is set to open in about three weeks....

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• Motorists face weeks of closures on Boston-area bridge.

  - 2004-11-18

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--The pain isn't close to being over for commuters on the Tobin Bridge. Forced to squeeze around work crews for months while the half-century-old span is repainted and...

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• Massachusetts governor says Boston-area transit agency expansion is in works.

  - 2004-11-10

  By Anthony Flint, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 10--Governor Mitt Romney says he needs more time to plot an orderly lineup of MBTA expansion projects as the state faces a possible lawsuit over its failure to improve the transit...

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• 'Charlie' to begin new ride on Boston-area subway with modern fare system.

  - 2004-11-09

  The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--T riders will soon be carrying the CharlieCard instead of tokens or monthly passes, an automated fare card with a back-to-the-future theme. Instead of "Charlie" being stuck on Hub trains, as in the...

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