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...DPW's Mandate...
...spokesman for Sargent said yesterday, however, that the DPW is under a "mandate" to build the road. The department had been prepared in December to recommend a route, he said, but postponed their recommendation at the City's request...
Most observers believe that the DPW will now select the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Belt. This path, long favored by the state agency, passes within several blocks of Central Square and would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people...
...City Council had been urged to recommend an alternative to this route, but Monday merely asked for a delay. Without expressing preference for any route, it sent plans for different locations of the highway to the DPW for consideration. The plans were drawn by a private committee and by consultants to the City Council...
...asking the state for a delay, the Council was joined yesterday by Edward J. McCormack, former attorney general and now a candidate for governor. Barney Frank '61, assistant senior tutor in Winthrop House, read the Council telegrams that McCormack sent to Gov. John A. Volpe and DPW commissioner Francis W. Sargent...