Wayward Bus Ties Traffic

Traffic snarled in the Square for about ten minutes yesterday afternoon as one M.T.A. bus after another broke loose from trolley lines and stopped.

The first bus went off the trolley when it tried to go around a double-parked truck. Its trolley pole flew up and broke the rope connecting it with the back of the bus. While a policeman climbed to the roof of the bus to pull down the pole, two more busses tried to pass, broke loose, and stopped.

Order returned to Harvard Square when still another bus pushed the first bus to the side of the street and the other busses hooked up again to the line and went on their way.