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From his experience, Blake observed, the construction of underpasses along Memorial Drive would probably lead to the eventual widening of the roadway into an expressway. He explained that small changes attract more cars, which create new and larger traffic problems and finally induce more extensive alterations...
...underpass controversy goes to court, the Citizens' Committee would try to prove that the underpasses are part of an MDC plan to turn the Drive into an expressway. MDC Commissioner Robert F. Murphy has denied that he has such a plan, but a report prepared by the commission's traffic consultants concedes that only widening the Drive will improve its traffic flow...
...result was cacophonous. A car behind Martin smashed into him and spun sideways. Brakes squealing, slewing in the slush like slalom racers, car after car piled helplessly into the snarl. When things finally skidded to a stop, 34 cars were locked in a tangled mass, blocking the expressway from curb to curb-and providing a classic picture of what happens in modern civilization when the slightest thing goes wrong...
Bernays explained to Udall that "nobody [in Cambridge] wants to make an expressway [of Memorial Drive] except some people who, I have heard, would profit therefrom...
...locations, carrying signs reading "Cars or People," "Save the Charles for Our Children," and "Don't Throw Our $6 Million Down the Thruway." One of the demonstrators was Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, Cambridge City Councillor, who carried a tiny piece of cardboard that read, "How Can I Cross an Expressway to Play." Another picket, a baritone in a brown duffel coat, sang: "I think that I shall never see/A highway lovely as a tree...