Word: belt
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Francis W. Sargent, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Works, said yesterday that he would announce a Cambridge route for the Inner Belt before the middle of this month...
...delay his decision until a new study of the need for the eight-lane highway could be made. The City Council had contended, in a motion passed Monday, that the possible reduction of tolls on the Boston segment of the Massachusetts Turnpike might eliminate any need for the Inner Belt...
Most observers believe that the DPW will now select the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Belt. This path, long favored by the state agency, passes within several blocks of Central Square and would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people...
...Council also resolved to travel to Washington to lobby against the Inner Belt. Yesterday's action by the DPW appeared not to have changed resolve...
...better get to Washington pretty fast," Thomas Coates, chairman of the Council's special committee on the Inner Belt, said. The trip will probably be made either Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, he added...