Word: cgis
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...want to block Harvard’s creeping expansion into their neighborhoods. On Wednesday, the Cambridge Planning Board approved Harvard’s proposal to construct a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street that would link the two buildings that will compose the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). The latest skirmish over a tunnel has been another example of Cambridge activists’ knee-jerk disapproval of all Harvard construction, even when the community stands to benefit...
...planned for the northeast corner of campus to connect two buildings on opposite sides of Cambridge Street that have already been approved by the City Council. The tunnel might even decrease traffic on city streets. The passageway will reduce congestion in the area by essentially eliminating the need for CGIS workers and visitors to hold up traffic by frequently crossing busy Cambridge Street to pass from one building to another...
Additionally, by linking the two buildings, the complex will need only one loading dock, effectively cutting in half the amount of time trucks would have to spend making deliveries to CGIS, thereby reducing both noise and traffic in the neighborhood...
...past vote, the planning board already approved the CGIS project as a whole...
Though University officials insist having a tunnel is crucial to the CGIS project, the Harvard administrator who oversees CGIS planning conceded that, even with last night’s vote, the toughest fight lies ahead...