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Compared to the driver's plight in such situations, Ulysses' voyage home was a pleasure cruise. "The life expectancy of a stranded driver walking on an expressway," said an official of Detroit's Automobile Manufacturers' Association last week, "is perhaps 30 seconds." His expectancy is diminishing constantly as superhighways lace the land, bypassing towns, eliminating crossroad garages...
...McCann repeatedly declared that the opponents of the underpasses had been conspicuously silent on the issue of the "Inner Belt" highway, an eight lane expressway that would pass through the heart of Central Square and probably displace about 1000 families...
Foes of the underpasses presented more than 20 people to support the new legislation. Quoting frequently from President Johnson and President Kennedy on the need for open urban spaces, they declared the State faced two alternatives: turn Memorial Drive into a "limited access expressway"--a move that they warned would destroy valuable river-front recreation area--or leave the drive...
...There is no doubt if you spend $10 million, you can turn Memorial Drive into an expressway, but do we need it?" asked Robert A. Boyer, a professional city planner. Boyer explained that merely building the underpasses, at an estimated cost of $7 million, would only serve to speed traffic at the three intersections involved. River St., Western Ave., and Bolyston St., and that other improvements--including the probably widening of the Drive and limiting access to the drive from the City's streets--would be required to increase traffic speed along the whole roadway...
...have seen no study to validate the construction of these underpasses, no origins and destinations study, no examination of alternatives," they said. "The tell in actual taxpayer dollars may well reach $7,000,000 with additional millions for converting the Drive into an expressway...