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...committee, a private group of planners, has been working since last fall against the Brookline-Elm St. route, which would wipe out from 1000 to 1500 homes and pass close to Central Square. Last Sunday M.I.T. vehemently rejected the two routes most often mentioned as alternative locations for the Belt. These routes, which would infringe on the Institute's campus, were pictured as causing $80 million in damage to M.I.T...
...nine councillors, joined by Cambridge's state representatives, met informally with traffic consultants hired by the city. The consultants presented their recommendation of an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt, the route that is favored by the state. This route cuts a wide path through Cambridge only several blocks east of Central Square...
...major drawback of the railroad route is that it would claim a significant number of M.I.T. laboratories. However, the consultants were not asked to choose be- tween the Brookline-Elm St. route and the railroad location; their assigned task was merely to find an alternative to Brookline-Elm that would limit job and residential displacement...
...Cambridge has only a railroad alignment as an alternative to the Brookline Elm St. alignment, the DPW will be in a relatively stronger position to either reject it on the basis of the FBPR's previously stated unwillingness to accept [it]....or simply send it along to Washington to have the FBPR reject...
...committee said it supported the railroad route, but did not want the opposition to Brookline-Elm to rise or fall on only one alternative. The second alternative, worked out in its broad outlines by the committee, runs along Albany and Portland Streets a few blocks west of the railroad