Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years the Inner Belt Highway has been a nightmare for Cambridge. Now the City has awakened, but the nightmare hasn't gone away...
...Department of Public Works. The veto was not absolute; any dispute would have gone to a three-man arbitration board with one neutral, one man appointed by Cambridge, and one by the DPW. Yet, despite its limited nature, the veto stalled DPW action on the Cambridge segment of the highway...
Despite this, Francis Sargent, commissioner of the DPW, has said that he will inform Cambridge of his decision before sending any official route to Washington for approval. (The Inner Belt is part of the Inter-State Highway System, and the federal government picks up 90 per cent of the cost.) Sargent has said that he wants to get the best route for Cambridge and wants to cooperate with everybody...
...unacceptable. Their new plans take less land, fewer jobs, and fewer homes (only 150, the committee claims). M.I.T. has remained mum on the Inner Belt; it has not made (nor has anyone else attempted to make) an objective analysis of the disruption the noise and vibrations from a large highway would have on experiments. Clearly, the extent of this disruption--and whether there are ways to limit or eliminate it--should be taken into account if the "railroad" alternatives are to be considered seriously...
...patient. Okay. I'll try some more to be human, but it's nearly been knocked out of me for one day. Stay with me; I can't do it alone. Jesus, thanks for sweating it out with me out here on this highway...