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THE BLIZZARD IN BOSTON HAS CLOSED MUCH OF THE SUBWAY SYSTEM
Here is a video clip originally made in 1959, featuring the Kingston Trio singing about 'the MTA', which is otherwise known as the Boston subway system:
on the evening news for February 10, it was noted that the Boston "MTA" was closed because heavy snowfall had blocked off so many of the street-level entrances.
Published on Jan 11, 2013 --
"M.T.A.", often called "The MTA Song", is a 1949 song by Jacqueline Steiner and Bess Lomax Hawes.
Known informally as "Charlie on the MTA", the song's lyrics tell of a man named Charlie trapped on Boston's subway system, then known as the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). The song was originally recorded as a mayoral campaign song for Progressive Party candidate Walter A. O'Brien.
A version of the song with the candidate's name changed became a 1959 hit when recorded and released by the Kingston Trio, the American folk group.
The song has become so entrenched in Boston lore that the Boston-area transit authority named its electronic card-based fare collection system the "CharlieCard" as a tribute to this song.
The transit organization, now called the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority ( MBTA ), held a dedication ceremony for the card system in 2004 which featured a performance of the song by the Kingston Trio and then-governor Mitt Romney.
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