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Last week, Harvard finally gave up trying to build a tunnel under Cambridge Street as part of the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). This event marked the end of a rancorous battle between the University, local activists and the City of Cambridge. But the elimination of the tunnel from Harvard’s construction plans means only one thing: nobody...
...CGIS plans originally called for one five-story building, but when local residents objected to the size, Harvard planners split the center into two smaller buildings positioned on opposite sides of Cambridge Street. A connecting tunnel would have been beneficial for students and faculty using the facilities, as well as for neighbors averse to the noise and bustle generated by academic centers...
...professors and administrators, who fought for the tunnel until the bitter end, said they considered it the lynchpin of the new CGIS facility, providing an essential link between related offices in the two buildings and connecting food services to the lecture halls and seminar rooms...
Since Harvard had received every other required permit for the CGIS before it tried to clear the final hurdle—the council’s approval to dig under Cambridge Street—construction for the Faculty’s most pressing building project can now go ahead unhindered...
...tunnel’s absence will perhaps most affect the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, which will be split between the two CGIS buildings...