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Bridwell announced the outline of the compromise in Washington after a four hour meeting with the City Council and the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW). The Council was pushing a more extensive review of the Belt, while the DPW "wanted a road and wanted it right away," as Cambridge City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes...
Hayes felt that the roads commissioner understood the damage which the DPW-approved Brookline-Elm route, (displacing some 1200 Cambridge families), would do to the City. "He's not one of those hardnosed road people who just wants to pour concrete," Hayes said...
...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...
Thursday morning, the council will "sit down" with Bridwell, the DPW, and representatives of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington to try to iron out a compromise plan for a Belt study. According to usually reliable sources, Bridwell might then announce a decision to build the Belt if a compromise is not reached...
...DPW and the state planning establishment have fought long and hard for the Belt; they might well continue fighting for it even after an unfavorable report by the new committee. And Governor Volpe--who was the first Federal Highway Administrator back in 1956--said flatly last May, "The Belt was needed 20 years ago, and it's needed more today...