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...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...
...less than a month to election time in Massachusetts, and the political tempo is accelerating. Last week, the pressure of politics had one very obvious effect: Gov. John A. Volpe abandoned his administration's long-standing, but unpopular, position favoring the Brook-line-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt through Cambridge. Volpe pledged he would "start from scratch" in selecting a path for the highway...
...plain language, Volpe's announcement means one one of two things is going to happen. After the election, his administration is going to wait some convenient length of time (perhaps as long as several months) and then simply announce that Brookline-Elm is still the best choice. Or--and this is what opponents of Brookline-Elm obviously want--he is going to make a complete reversal and choose the Portland-Albany St. route...
...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...