Word: belt
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Controversy has broken out in Cambridge over the proposed Inner Belt roadway, particularly the provisions of the 1961 Act giving nine Massachusetts cities and towns power to veto any construction planned under the multi-million dollar Federal Highway Program...
Trodden charged that the proposed Inner Belt highgway will cut through Cambridge, "driving out many families and many thousands of tax dollars." "Although the City Council has suggested many alternative routes to the Hiighway Commission," Trodden said, "the plans have all fallen on deaf ears...
...Inner Belt Highway...
Belin also exercised his "Charter privilege" to require debate at next Monday's Council meeting on a resolution expressing Cambridge opposition to construction of an "Inner Belt" highway...
Cambridge has in the past opposed construction of the controversial Inner Belt because it would cut through the center of the city, thus dividing it into two sections...