Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Council, in a last ditch effort to halt the proposed Cambridge Inner Belt Highway, voted last night to organize a massive march on the Massachusetts state house to take place before the end of January...
Faced with the almost certain prospect that John A. Volpe soon will order construction to begin on the long-proposed highway, the council also requested the incoming Governor of Mass., Francis W. Sargent, to withdraw the plans from the Dept. of Transportation...
Cambridge's last hope for another delay in the construction was wiped out last week when it became apparent that the outgoing federal highway administrator, Lowell K. Bridwell, would not move to have more hearings on the plans. It will be up to the new administration to act on a request to have a second set of public hearings on the highway...
Bridwell is on a round-the-world cruise until after Jan. 20. Volpe, and whoever will be the new highway administrator, are certain to turn down the request for a second set of hearings...
...Department of Transportation, Secretary Alan Boyd is putting through a change in procedure that would require states to hold two sets of public hearings rather than one before highway-construction projects can be approved. This would allow opponents of a given route more opportunity to make their case. John Volpe, Boyd's designated successor, has spoken against the change...