Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Opponents of the Brookline-Elm route of the Inner Belt have begun a last-ditch campaign to get the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to override the state's choice of the route...
...have lost a battle -- a very big battle -- at the state level, but we have not lost the war," the Rev. Edward J. McManus, chairman of a citizens' committee opposed to Brookline-Elm, told an audience of 150 in St. Mary's auditorium last night...
...State Department of Public Works announced last Friday that it had definitely chosen the Brookline-Elm route -- a path which will uproot at least 1200 families. The route must still receive final approval from the federal bureau, which will pay 90 per cent of the cost...
Some 100 opponents of Brookline-Elm plan to picket the Washington office of the Bureau next Tuesday, dressed in black to dramatize the "death of the future of Cambridge...
Moreover, his pledge proved to be only partially true. There was no "start from scratch" in searching for an Inner Belt route through Cambridge. The DPW did make an intensive comparison of the Brookline-Elm St. route with the Portland-Albany alternate, but that was all. The DPW made it clear that Brookline Elm was still the route to beat and that only astounding new in formation would convince it otherwise. Even though eight months and $30,000 were spent on the new study it would have been surprising had the DPW reached a new conclusion. The department used...