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...Boston Herald reported that the State Department of Public Works has officially approved the Brookline-Elm St route for the eight-lane highway. This path would pass within two blocks o Central Square and displace from 900 to 1500 families...
Even if Sargent's words represent more than political tact, there are good reasons for believing that the DPW is intent on selecting the Brook-line-Elm Street route--the one that would wipe out 1000 to 1500 families and run right next to Central Square. First, it has been the route long championed by his agency. Second, plans for this route are farther along than for any other. And third, any other realistic alternative would run along the fringe of the M.I.T. campus; the political power of M.I.T., a venus flytrap for federal research contracts, is latent, but great...
Basically, all the alternatives to the Brookline-Elm Street route run over or parallel to a set of abandoned railroad tracks in East Cambridge. The tracks themselves are owned by M.I.T., and if the Belt went along any of the proposed paths in this area, at least several M.I.T. buildings would get wiped...
...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...
...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 to show their strength by more than large numbers at City Council hearings. There is nothing that Boston papers like better than...