Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Benfield, the mothers showed up at Johnson's office at 9:30 yesterday morning, armed with signs, blankets, and food. They also had a letter addressed to Johnson calling on M.I.T. to denounce the proposed Brookline-Elm St. route of the Inner Belt, and to either join in blocking the highway altogether or to help find a "more humane" route...
...month before the election, Volpe announced a complete restudy of the proposed Inner Belt routes. But in February of this year, he called for the same thing. Then in March, Francis Sargent, the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Works, announced the state's decision to go ahead with the Brookline-Elm St. route and admitted that the state had never made a serious re-examination of the routes at all. No one knows how serious the current re-examination will be, but Cambridge's city manager feels certain that the state will announce its intent in early December to proceed with...
...letter, DeGuglielmo claimed that even though Volpe said he would review the alternate route proposed by the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, time and cost considerations would necessitate the choice of the original Brookline-Elm...
...Inner Belt will come and it will pass through the Brookline-Elm St. route, City Manager Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 informed the City Council yesterday...
...Cambridge, both routes will be costly. Brookline-Elm displaces from 1200 to 1500 families, claims 2300 jobs and runs straight through Central Square. The Portland-Albany route would eliminate, at a minimum, the same number of jobs and uproot about 150 families. Moreover, it would run through and industrial area near M.I.T. which promises to attract a considerable amount of future research and defense industry. Given these relative costs, however, the Portland-Albany route seems the lesser of two evils...