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Cambridge officials leading the City's fight against the proposed Inner Belt highway yesterday attacked a new transportation plan for Eastern Massachusetts that recommends building the Belt as part of a $576.9 million "short range" transit program...
Justin M. Gray, assistant to the City Manager for Community Development, said yesterday that the Eastern Massachusetts Regional Planning Project transportation study had made no real evaluation of the need for the Inner Belt--which would displace at least 1200 Cambridge families--yet the study still urged the building of the Belt...
...Given these Bridwell studies, to make a determination of this sort is premature," Gray said. Federal Highway Administrator Lowell K. Bridwell last February ordered a re-examination of the need for the Belt. It has not yet begun...
Gray said he was fearful that the state Department of Public Works--which first proposed the Belt in 1948 and had a large hand in the highway section of the EMRPP transportation plan--might turn around and use the EMRPP study to support its fight for the Belt. "It would be another turn of the lock," Gray said...
After Bridwell's decision of last February, a relieved Cambridge sighed that at least the final, irrevocable decision on the Belt had been delayed for two years. But at the moment, no one can tell if it'll even be that long before the BPR makes the decision to send the bulldozers crawling up Brookline...