Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...march was intended to protest particularly the Brookline Elm St. route, the path favored by the State Department of Public Works that would uproot between 3000-5000 people...
...government gets thinking that it can take 5000 people's homes without being questioned, then this isn't democracy in my mind," Mrs. Benfield told the small crowd at City Hall. She nailed a petition to the door asking the City Council to oppose the Brookline Elm St. route and recommended another location for the highway. Only one of the nine councillors, Walter J. Sullivan, made the march...
...Council mets today with only one day left to make a recommendation. The DPW gave Cambridge until March 1 to present a specific alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route...
...four possible routes prominently mentioned, all will wreak havoc. Two variations down Brookline and Elm Streets near Central Square will up-root between 3000 and 5000 families and claim several thousand jobs. One alignment further East, down Portland and Albany Streets on the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus, will take from 2300 to 5000 jobs (depending on whose figures you believe). And a third possible route, using the right-of-way along railroad tracks running through part of M.I.T.'s campus, will take a significant number of laboratories as well as claiming more than a thousand jobs and several hundred...
...City Council, faced with the conflicting pleas of businesses, residents, and M.I.T., has thus far failed to take any definite stand. It has until March 1--next Tuesday--to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. alignment or accept the DPW's almost certain decision to select this route...