Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second question may be the most important, because if the Brookline-Elm St. route is approved by the federal authorities, Cambridge will face a massive relocation problem. Some 3000 to 5000 people would be uprooted by the highway, and right now there is no place in Cambridge for them to go. The new Cambridge Corporation, backed in large part by Harvard and M.I.T., can provide one mechanism for providing low-income housing. But the City should do everything it can, including the surveying of potential building sites, to stimulate additional development. Delay in this area now will mean families without...
...though it must prepare for the eventuality of the Belt, the City does not have to abandon all opposition to the highway. The Federal Bureau of Roads has promised a full-scale review of the project; the first thing Cambridge ought to do is ask Washington to conduct an independent study rather than rely on the State Department of Public Works for information in the project's review...
...those terms, as bluntly expressed by one city councillor, Cambridge has fought the intrusion of the eight-lane highway into the City. The public appearances of the fight--meetings with the State Department of Public Works, a trip to Washington, vocal speeches and arguments--have been impressive. But looked at more realistically, Cambridge's struggle has had more elements of charade than serious strategy. The substance of the City's opposition has been meager, at best, and at worst, nonexistent...
...fact, because most political power is based on personal contact rather than clear-cut policy issues, the City has rarely attacked the Inner Belt in a systematic fashion. For years, when the highway's development was in its preliminary stages, the City did virtually nothing to create and coordinate opposition within other communities affected by the Belt. Just as important, the fact that the Inner Belt has been kicking around for so long--it was first proposed in 1948--has helped mellow opposition...
...scope of this project makes it unlikely, however, that a major reversal is in the works. The government has already approved all the other major segments of the highway. Given the past persuasiveness of the City, a significant change in approach will be necessary if Cambridge is to gain anything at all from the federal study...