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...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...
However, even if the planners' arguments and local political pressure created the drive for the review, they might not have overcome the bureaucratic impetus created by the DPW's decision of last May without outside help...
...allow the new study was highly unusual. The Bureau has been well aware of the Belt plan ever since it was first proposed in 1948. The road had been frequently reviewed at the state level, until foe and friend alike lost count of the number of studies. The DPW itself, following an election-time request of Governor John A. Volpe, re-studied the Belt prior to its decision last...
...Drive to the B&A railroad yards in East Cambridge. Among the various routes proposed for the Cambridge link in the Belt, the Memorial Drive route was usually rejected rather quickly. According to Mayor Hayes, the rejection was due "more to verbiage than actual studies." Hayes said that the DPW had turned down the route as "one-sided"--it would only be accessible on one side; its other side would run along the Charles River. The City has argued that the location of interchanges--two of which are planned for Cambridge--not the location of the road, will determine...
...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...