Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like a surgeon replacing an ulcerated stomach with an artificial one, the Inner Belt must extract much from the entrails of Cambridge before it can effect a cure. In the course of the experiment, people, business, and the city will suffer heavily, with the possibility ever present that the scheme might fail...
Whatever route it may take, the proponents of the Belt argue (quite feasibly) that the road will more than compensate Cambridge for the financial blood-letting. While removing the heavy trucking now present in many residential areas of the city, the highway would at the same time provide access to a through route for traffic from the mills in east Cambridge. Along with the three major urban renewal projects now in the drawing board stage, it would theoretically improve both residential and industrial land values, as well as commerce...
...affect, as in the city generally, the population is becoming more static--mostly middle-aged and elderly people. With more attractive residential areas and greater business opportunities elsewhere, the youth of the city is in flight. It is hoped that the new community emerging from the rubble of the Belt Route construction will help attract this younger group back to the area. Unfortunately, the older residents will have to bear the brunt of change. There is no indication yet that the state will help in any way to ease the pains involved...
Although the threat of the steam shovels has hung over the heads of people in the area for a long time, some continue to think that red tape will enmesh the Inner Belt so long that it will ultimately fail to materialize. Like Mrs. Charles Brumis, a 25-year resident of the neighborhood threatened by the Brookline Street route, they are passively against the road. "We would oppose it, because we would hate to lose our home. But, they cancelled it for two years, so we decided to paint our house." More outspoken is Robert Pleet, who recently added...
McClellan agreed with Eliot that traffic was a major problem, but declined to comment on Eliot's specific proposals to ease the situation (i.e., extension of Route 2 to the Inner Belt; extension of the Cambridge Subway; and construction of a new rapid transit system...