Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cambridge politicians and planners seem to have played out their hand in one of the most expensive poker games in local history. The state Department of Public Works holds all the cards, and, regardless of what Cambridge does, will probably be able to push the unwanted Inner Belt highway across the City, inflicting immense damage...
...Cambridge Committee for the Inner Belt, a private group of planners, has recommended a design down Portland and Albany Streets. They calculate that this route will claim approximately 2300 jobs--the figure has been challenged, and, in reality, its validity depends upon whether the Polaroid Corporation will move most of its operations outside the City if some of its physical plant is taken. Although the company has said it will have to consider such a move, the probability is that it will find some way of adapting to the new situation. In any case, as heavy as the cost...
...Council should not limit its action to picking an alternate route. The City's main problem is that the rules of the game have been set by the DPW, and the two most important rules--that the Inner Belt is both inevitable and necessary--make the game a losing one for Cambridge. The rules are well-established, but the Council's attempts to change them have thus far been limited to strong, but largely ineffective verbal dissent. It can, and should, do more...
Earlier in yesterday's meeting, Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 argued that the City should pressure either the state or national government to restudy the need for the Inner Belt...
...presentation, however, the Committee for the Inner Belt claimed that it had designed the Portland-Albany St. route so as not to take more than one part of one Polaroid building. The Committee plans to show its revised design of the route to the company...