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...metropolitan area. A 454-acre midtown tract of slums called Mill Creek Valley, filled with slum housing that cried out for rebuilding in 1954, is now one of the largest urban-renewal areas in the U.S. A substantial section of it will be set aside for an expressway to link downtown with the major expressways leading out of the city. The long neglected riverfront has been cleared for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial Park; scheduled for completion there next year is a soaring stainless-steel arch 630 ft. high, designed by the late Eero Saarinen as a monument...
Opponents believe the underpasses which will be built beginning in February or March of 1965, at River St., Western Ave., and Bolyston St. are merely first steps to the widening of Memorial Drive from a two-lane highway to a four-lane expressway. They further contend that the underpasses--and the changes that will follow--will destroy the Charles riverbank as a useful and irreplaceable recreational area...
...that things were much cooler here (around 50 degrees) because less steam was needed at the Business School than on the Cambridge side. The Tunnel stretched straight out before us. A downward slope took us back underground, and then we started the long walk under the river bank and expressway toward the Business School. An uneventful five minute walk brought us to the McCulloch Hall operating station, from which, after exchanging farewells with Dominic, we left subterranean Harvard and returned to the Harvard of everyday experience...
...Udall declares the Drive a historical shrine, it will block the construction of three proposed underpasses, and halt the attempt to destroy the parkway and turn it into an expressway...
Hayes revealed that the city council may take action to minimize the number of evictions the expressway will cause. Agreeing with McCann that it was now inevitable that the highways would enter Cambridge, he said he was studying a scheme that would save well over a thousand families from eviction...