Word: dpw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DPW Denies...
Representatives in the state DPW also denied any knowledge of a public hearing on Route 2, which Gray said is one of the conditions Cambridge must accept in return for favorable action on the housing projects...
John Cope, a planner who participated in the early stages of the EMRPP study but is now working for Cambridge against the Belt, said that EMRPP, acting under pressure from the DPW, had decided in 1962 against any review of the DPW's existing highway plans of which the belt is a part...
...Inner Belt, as planned in 1948, is needed at all, and at the same time--after assuming that the Belt was needed--try to find out how to minimize its undesirable impacts on housing, employment, etc., in the communities through which it passes. Since Bridwell's decision, the DPW, the BPR, and the four communities along the Belt--Cambridge, Boston, Somerville, and Brookline--have been fighting an obscure but important battle over just what the study--as vaguely outlined by Bridwell--should include...
During the squabble, Cambridge has tried to widen the purview of both parts of the study, and to assure that it--unlike the 1966-67 examination--will not be done by DPW-handpicked consultants. If successful, the City's strategy could produce a study recommending ways to ease the pain the Inner Belt would bring to Cambridge. The DPW appears to have given ground only grudgingly, attempting to assure that, once again, its plans for the Belt will be accepted after the study ends...