Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus rejected the City government's plea to delay his decision until a new study of the need for the eight-lane highway could be made. The City Council had contended, in a motion passed Monday, that the possible reduction of tolls on the Boston segment of the Massachusetts Turnpike might eliminate any need for the Inner Belt...
...City Council had been urged to recommend an alternative to this route, but Monday merely asked for a delay. Without expressing preference for any route, it sent plans for different locations of the highway to the DPW for consideration. The plans were drawn by a private committee and by consultants to the City Council...
Urged to recommend an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. route, the council unanimously voted to ask the state for another delay in selecting a path for the eight-lane highway. It questioned the need of any Inner Belt and pledged to travel to the capital to seek the support of the state's Congressional delegation against the road...
...future of all such public programs may suffer from the contagion of community suspicion and hostility." McCormack is the first gubernatorial candidate to enter the controversy, and though he took on position on the location or need of the road, some of his advisors are known to oppose the highway altogether...
...other possible locations for the highway have been proposed. The first would follow railroad tracks in East Cambridge and probably destroy a number of M.L.T. laboratories near the tracks. The second, a few blocks to the West, would follow Portland and Albany Streets. This alignment has been endorsed by the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a group of private planners...