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...State Department of Public Works took the easy way out last Friday. It selected the Brookline-Elm St. route over the alternate Portland-Albany location for the eight-lane Inner Belt highway. There was no surprise in the announcement; the DPW has long favored Brookline-Elm. Construction will be cheaper and easier -- had the alternate route been chosen, the department would have had to make extra efforts to stabilize the highway in the shifty subsoil of the Charles River Basin. The DPW would also have had to admit to the federal government (which pays 90 per cent of the highway...
...opted for convenience. It acknowledged, but ignored. the serious consequences a large expressway along Brookline and Elm Streets will have for Cambridge. The highway will now run through the heart of the Central Square business district and the densely populated residential neighborhoods on either side of Mass...
...Somerville will be displaced and that businesses with 2715 jobs will be destroyed. These figures are staggering. But when the DPW compares them with the costs of the alternate Portland-Albany route -- the department's estimates put these at 656 families and 7131 jobs -- it concludes that Brookline-Elm is the best bet. The DPW's calculations are probably inflated, but on paper the decision has the semblance of rationality...
...statement, drafted by Chester W. Hartman '57, assistant professor of City Planning, specifically criticizes the proposed Brookline-Elm route, and calls any new highway through Cambridge's "extremely destructive." It questions the need for the highway to be built at all, and asks that an "integrated master transportation plan" be developed for the Boston area...
...statement charges that the construction of the proposed Brookline-Elm St. route would destroy 1200 dwelling units, the homes of nearly 6 per cent of Cambridge's population. It reads: "2300 jobs will be lost, established neighborhoods will be permanently disrupted, elderly and low income families will suffer severe financial and emotional costs, and the city will be split...