Word: drives
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cambridge traffic would be helped by this improvement, most of all by the new drives on the Boston bank which would fill in the present gap between Bay State Road and Otter St. The new drive would pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This...
...Cambridge side it is proposed to build an underpass for: Memorial Drive at Massachusetts Ave., thus obviating the congestion at that point...
...across the river by a new bridge connecting with the present Soldiers Field Road on the Brighton side. This would tend to divert a good deal of traffic which now passes through Mt. Auburn St, in front of the hospitals due to the fact that, at present. Memorial Drive ends opposite Hawthorne...
...four years is estimated to be about $4,250,000. Of this sum Mrs. J. J. Storrow's gift will pay $1,000,000, the state highway fund $850,000., Boston $150,000., as its share of an overpass from Commonwealth Ave, at St. Paul St. to the Basin drive, and Cambridge $160,000 as, its share of the underpass for Memorial Drive at Massachusetts Ave. The balance of the cost, estimated at about $2,100,000, would be paid by the cities and towns of the Metropolitan Parks District in proportion to their assessed valuation. The share for Cambridge...
...affirmative speakers maintained that any sort of repression of freedom of speech would ultimately lead to rebellion, for it would drive agitators to use secret and unlawful means for the propagation of their ideas...