Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belt, which was severely criticized by the Council last session, has rarely been mentioned since the beginning of the new year. A number of factors seem responsible...
...There is an undercurrent of opinion among the councillors that the route for the Inner Belt is almost a foregone conclusion. Most believe that the State Department of Public Works will certainly select the Brookline-Elm St. location--a route near Central Square that has been long favored by the state agency and consistently condemned by city officials...
...There were no formal steps that the Council had to take on the Belt during January, and thus nothing to break its preoccupation with the manager's dispute. February will be the crucial month...
...late December, the DPW delayed announcing the Belt route to allow the City to come up with an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. Path. Traffic consultants for Cambridge have been working for the past six weeks on a design for the highway that would run along the right-of-way of railroad tracks in East Cambridge...
However, the Cambridge Committee for the Inner Belt, a group of private planners that first prodded the Council into seeking specific alternatives, is worried about the City's approach...