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...thoughtful article on the Inner Belt highway Peter S. Britell says "Almost everyone will grant that the Inner Belt means progress, at least in terms of improving the Metropolitan highway situation." Actually there are many (myself included) who do not grant as much...
...have traditionally run Greece. Instead, he is the son of a schoolteacher from Macedonia, which Athens sophisticates consider Endsville. But Karamanlis has restored order to Greece's turbulent postwar politics, and stability to its economy. In his six years as Prime Minister, he has built a modern highway network that connects Athens and Salonica with hundreds of villages that once were far from the main drag, brought electricity to hundreds of thousands of Greeks who never had known anything but candles, got the shipyards going, and brought strength to the nation's banks. Today Greece's drachma...
Whatever route it may take, the proponents of the Belt argue (quite feasibly) that the road will more than compensate Cambridge for the financial blood-letting. While removing the heavy trucking now present in many residential areas of the city, the highway would at the same time provide access to a through route for traffic from the mills in east Cambridge. Along with the three major urban renewal projects now in the drawing board stage, it would theoretically improve both residential and industrial land values, as well as commerce...
...project. Families not owning the houses they live in thus receive no funds at all to facilitate a move elsewhere. Perhaps just as important, where the Redevelopment Authority tries to take account of the communal solidarity of neighborhood groupings by attempting to piece them back together after the demolition, highway builders have little care for the social implications of their work...
Almost everyone will grant that the Inner Belt means progress, at least in terms of improving the Metropolitan highway situation. At this point the questions seem to be: does the road mean the substantial improvement for Cambridge which its apologists predict? Does this improvement depend upon both the renewal projects and the road, or just upon the renewal projects alone...