Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
M.I.T. is truly concerned with the problems of Cambridge, it should reject in no uncertain terms, any route in the Brookline-Elm St. area," Robert Goodman, member of the committee wrote Monday to James R. Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. corporation...
...route of the Cambridge segment of the highway will probably be announced sometime next month by the State Department of Public Works. The City has until March 1 to recommend any alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. plan. Last month traffic consultants hired by the city an alignment along ralroad tracks in East Cambridge would be a feasible alternative. However, this was one of the routes opposed by 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...