General manager's subject files, 1914-1975 (bulk 1960-1972).

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. General manager's subject files, 1914-1975 (bulk 1960-1972).

General manager's subject files, 1914-1975 (bulk 1960-1972).

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To fulfill their responsibilities for providing public bus, trolley, trackless trolley, rapid transit, and (since 1964) commuter rail services to the Boston metropolitan area, the MTA and MBTA have been administered respectively by a board of public trustees and board of directors, both served by a general manager. Series has been created by the general manager's office to facilitate and document fulfillment of its responsibilities, and in its present state reflects activities during a period of significant transit network growth and agency reorganization. Files contain memorandums, correspondence, and reports; also maps, plans, blueprints, and photographs. Broad topics include: accidents (collisions, derailments, and related statistical data); administration (trustees and directors, specific administrative units, legislation, public relations, including press releases, state auditor reports); general manager's correspondence; employees (payroll, rules and regulations, wages); equipment (design, selection, purchase of buses and cars, safety issues); finance (financial statements, advisory board and other budget documents); state issues (civil defense, Metropolitan Area Planning Council); power (contracts, reports, relations with municipal power companies); property (by locality); reports (finance, organization, planning); schedules and routes; stations (organized by MBTA Red, Green, Orange, Blue lines); unions; other (by topic--including bonds, crime, rails, shops, speeches, timetables) The following series have been extracted from these files--Boston Elevated Railway Company: Newsletrter--Coopperation, 1922-1939 ((M-Ar)381X). Metropolitan Transit Authority (Boston, Mass.): Memorandums from the general manager to the Board of Trustees, 1962 ((M-Ar)1999). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority: Advisory board files, 1953-1971 (bulk 1965-1969) ((M-Ar)2000); Annual report files, 1960-1972 ((M-Ar)2143); Board of Directors minutes, 1964-1972 ((M-Ar)1997); Board of Trustees/Directors agendas, 1952-1970 ((M-Ar)1996); Board of Trustees/Directors meeting notes and directives to the general manager, 1961-1971 ((M-Ar)1998); Newsletter--Commuter, 1965-1972 ((M-Ar)1751X); Special commission files, 1967-1971 ((M-Ar)2054X); Staff meeting minutes, 1965-1972 (bulk 1965-1969) ((M-Ar)2002); Treasurer's statements, 1967-1971 ((M-Ar)2001) Also extracted: Project files, 1960-1972 ((M-Ar)2020)

48.24 cubic ft. (38 record center cartons, 3 doc. boxes, and 2 boxes)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Archives