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Members of the Committee last night disputed the displacement figures that Francis W. Sargent, Commissioner of the DPW, cited when he announced the Brookline-Elm route...
Most observers believe that the DPW will now select the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Belt. This path, long favored by the state agency, passes within several blocks of Central Square and would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people...
...planners, said the "Council's action was neither as strong as clear as we would like." However, the Committee, which had recommended one of the routes near M.I.T., pledged its continued support in the City's campaign against the Belt. Mrs. Michael Benfield, a local leader in the Brookline-Elm area, said she would have liked the Council to make a recommendation...
...Council met in executive session before taking its public stand. In that closed meeting, at least two councillors favored recommending an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. alignment. It was decided, however, to present only the general motion-asking for the delay-in order to have complete unity among the nine councillors...
...number of organizations, besides the Committee on the Inner Belt and residents of the Brookline-Elm area, had urged that the Council accept the committee's recommended route along Portland and Albany Streets in East Cambridge. A group of six M.I.T. planners, opposing the Institute's position, supported the Portland-Albany route yesterday, and the Cambridge League of Women Voters reiterated a stand it had made earlier