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MBTA halts purchase of Green Line 'lemons'

By Anthony Flint
Globe Staff / December 12, 2004

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A quarter-billion dollar effort to provide sleek new trolleys for the century-old Green Line has collapsed in a tangle of breakdowns and recriminations, with the MBTA halting all payments to the manufacturer and refusing to take delivery on 53 of 100 of the vehicles ordered nearly a decade ago. (Full article: 1307 words)

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