Word: highway
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Cambridge officials leading the City's fight against the proposed Inner Belt highway yesterday attacked a new transportation plan for Eastern Massachusetts that recommends building the Belt as part of a $576.9 million "short range" transit program...
...YEARS AGO Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe, in the midst of a re-election campaign, made one of the few decisions that has ever won the ex-contractor any acclaim in Cambridge. Vope ordered a re-examination of the route which Cambridge's eight-lane nemesis, the Inner Belt highway, would take through the City...
Perhaps more important, Lowell K. Bridwell, the new Federal Highway Commissioner, was beginning to take another look at how the U.S. Government builds its roads, to see if some medicine could be found to heal the social scars they left on communities. Cambridge, which had protested long and loud about the dire effects of the Belt, was an ideal place to try a new approach. So Bridwell last February held up final approval of the Belt, pending a new, two year study of the road...
...scope of the study, their efforts may be exploded by the results of Tuesday's Presidential election. Even if Humphrey wins, Bridwell may leave his post as part of the inaugural changeover, leaving a vacancy which could be filled by one less sympathetic to the claims of cities facing highway construction...
...cabinet post, at least enough influence to bend the ear of Bridwell's successor on the matter of the Belt. Though Volpe has remained mum on the Belt for almost two years, it's likely that Cambridge's continuing fight has not further endeared the City to the former highway contractor. The study could be scratched before it began...