MTA Renovates

The M.T.A. is purchasing 92 flashy blue and white subway cars with fiberglass seats and large picture windows for the Harvard Square-Dorchester run. After 35 years of bumps, drafts, and wooden benches, riders will hopefully start enjoying the new cars this summer.

The directors of the M.T.A. agreed Tuesday to buy the cars for $10,097,000 from the Pullman-Standard Company of Chicago.

According to the M.T.A's public relations office, the cars will have two-toned tile abestos flooring and large fans to supply "regular changes of air." Stanchions down the middle of the cars "will insure reasonably steady footing" for standees, the office added.

The fate of the old cars has not yet been determined.