Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Council sidestepped specifics in the Inner Belt controversy yesterday and decided instead to take a trip to Washington...
Urged to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route, the council unanimously voted to ask the state for another delay in selecting a path for the eight-lane highway. It questioned the need of any Inner Belt and pledged to travel to the capital to seek the support of the state's Congressional delegation against the road...
...Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a group of private planners, said the "Council's action was neither as strong as clear as we would like." However, the Committee, which had recommended one of the routes near M.I.T., pledged its continued support in the City's campaign against the Belt. Mrs. Michael Benfield, a local leader in the Brookline-Elm area, said she would have liked the Council to make a recommendation...
...number of organizations, besides the Committee on the Inner Belt and residents of the Brookline-Elm area, had urged that the Council accept the committee's recommended route along Portland and Albany Streets in East Cambridge. A group of six M.I.T. planners, opposing the Institute's position, supported the Portland-Albany route yesterday, and the Cambridge League of Women Voters reiterated a stand it had made earlier
...have been proposed. The first would follow railroad tracks in East Cambridge and probably destroy a number of M.L.T. laboratories near the tracks. The second, a few blocks to the West, would follow Portland and Albany Streets. This alignment has been endorsed by the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a group of private planners...