Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Council may soon receive a powerful legal boost in its fight to delay the proposed Cambridge Inner Belt...
...Cambridge City Council passed a resolution last night in favour of the twohearing proposal. The Council has been waging a fight to delay the Inner Belt ever since it was first suggested...
John Cope, a planner who participated in the early stages of the EMRPP study but is now working for Cambridge against the Belt, said that EMRPP, acting under pressure from the DPW, had decided in 1962 against any review of the DPW's existing highway plans of which the belt is a part...
Instead, they merely reviewed the same highway network with and without the Belt and concluded that the road should be built, he said...
MAPC President Franklin Flaschner, defending the EMRPP study, said last night that he was "reasonably confident that some sort of review" of the Belt had been made. The technical staff of the EMRPP project were not available for comment...