Word: belt
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Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell met behind closed doors with the City Council and their academic advisory committee on the Inner Belt for two and a half hours yesterday to discuss the fate of the highway...
...year, $5 million re-study of the highway "conceptually excellent," but doubted than such a study of the long-range social costs of a highway was feasible at present. He presented a more limited counter proposal, which emphasize finding ways for Cambridge to cope with the Belt, rather than exploring various alternatives...
...commissioner did concede, however, than eliminating the Belt altogether should be considered. All metropolitan transportation plans since 1948 have assumed that the Belt--in some form--would be built...
Councillor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., who is heading the City's fight against the Belt, expressed guarded optimism after the meeting. "I won't say he (Bridwell) has frozen his position--he's open," Hayes said. But the councillor had two objections to the commissioner's counter-proposal...
...money for the study would go to the state, not to the City. The Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW) has long suported the Belt...