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Then there is a group, led by Rep. John J. Toomey and Councilors Thomas M. McNamara and Alfred E. Vellucci, which is dissatisfied with all existing routes. Tentatively, they have championed their own route, a wider Memorial Drive which would extend to the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway in Somerville. It seems likely, however, that this line would mean merely the addition of more traffic to an already saturated road...
...Callahan (who controls the bond issue), had already procured an option on the right of way. Although this plan and contracts connected with it had been gathering dust for close to five years, $20 million worth of work had gone forward on the Prudential Center, under which the expressway was expected to pass...
...late January, Volpe proposed an alternate route (a freeway west of the B & A) and almost threw a bomb into Callahan's works. If the expressway were to follow the Volpe route, it would not pass under the Center. Since any change at all in the expressway plans would have drawn a considerable amount of Prudential blood, the company's executives laid down an ultimatum. They did not care what kind of road (viz. free or toll) went through, so long as it went underneath the Center. Without a clarifying decision from the Supreme Judicial Court before its summer recess...
Cars driving along the new expressway that knifes into the city from the north were stoned and shot at. White taxi driv ers venturing into the Negro section were burned by potash. Fire bombs were tossed. A Negro ex-convict named Charlie Davis led a shooting raid on a white filling station, got shot in the head himself and was killed when his car crashed into a utility pole. Negro gangs gave up fighting among themselves, banded together against the common enemy and roamed the streets looking for trouble. In a single day 50 people were injured...
Directly above a new twelve-lane expressway, Kratter intends to build a $12 million, 27-story middle-income apartment project renting at $28 per room, hopes to give it a multishaded shell of pastel porcelain for "a fiesta look." The buildings will stand on 45-ft. stilts placed between the lanes of the expressway, will have their heating and other utility equipment on the top floor. Says Kratter: "We'll probably have the only penthouses in New York occupied by heaters and boilers...