Word: highway
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...protest march against the Inner Belt highway fizzled Saturday...
...take 5000 people's homes without being questioned, then this isn't democracy in my mind," Mrs. Benfield told the small crowd at City Hall. She nailed a petition to the door asking the City Council to oppose the Brookline Elm St. route and recommended another location for the highway. Only one of the nine councillors, Walter J. Sullivan, made the march...
Cambridge politicians and planners seem to have played out their hand in one of the most expensive poker games in local history. The state Department of Public Works holds all the cards, and, regardless of what Cambridge does, will probably be able to push the unwanted Inner Belt highway across the City, inflicting immense damage...
Councillor Edward A. Crane '35 has raised some strong arguments against the Inner Belt. The original idea of the Inner Belt Route was conceived in the 1948 Highway Master Plan, but since that time a number of other roads not contemplated in the report--in particular, the extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike into Boston--have been built. If tolls on the turnpike were reduced, Crane argues, more cars and trucks would use it, reducing the usefulness of an Inner Belt. The crucial question is: how much is the Inner Belt a compelling necessity, and how much is it a mere...
Crane is correct when he asks for a new study of the need for the Belt. But a DPW that has been panting for years to build this highway is not about to cap its long frustration with another lengthy and risky study. The only way that Cambridge is going to get its report is by a massive show of political power that draws upon every element in this community as well as Boston, and the surrounding suburbs. The only way that such a demonstration can be achieved is by a united City Council that can induce the different factions...