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...late December, the DPW delayed announcing the Belt route to allow the City to come up with an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. Path. Traffic consultants for Cambridge have been working for the past six weeks on a design for the highway that would run along the right-of-way of railroad tracks in East Cambridge...
According to Cambridge sources, the Herald apparently got hold of the recommendations of a report submitted to the DPW. The paper printed the substance of the report and said the DPW's decision had been "finalized...
...DPW originally offered--and tentatively rejected--two alternatives in this area. Now a group of private planners, known as the Cambridge Committee for the Inner Belt, has refined these plans and charged that the original DPW designs were drawn so as to make them unacceptable. Their new plans take less land, fewer jobs, and fewer homes (only 150, the committee claims). M.I.T. has remained mum on the Inner Belt; it has not made (nor has anyone else attempted to make) an objective analysis of the disruption the noise and vibrations from a large highway would have on experiments. Clearly...
...City has sent the alternative plans to a highly-respected Chicago firm of traffic consultants. If the consultants say the new designs are technically acceptable, and if the City officially adopts them as preferable to the Brookline-Elm Street route, the DPW will be forced to take a second look...
...quality of the City's opposition will also have a lot to do with the chances of the alternatives. Everyone knows Cambridge opposes the Inner Belt, and unless politicians--and, more importantly, residents--are able to demonstrate that this opposition is strong and determined, the DPW will be tempted to brush aside the alternatives. Even if the railroad alternatives prove unfeasible, public pressure may force the DPW to make the Brookline-Elm Street route as palatable as possible by altering the design and helping with relocation problems. Leaders of the public opposition to the Inner Belt ought to be prepared...