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Streets are likely to be re-routed. The MBTA Redline may extend to West Cambridge. The John F. Kennedy Library Center, to be built where buses now park across from Kirkland and Eliot Houses, will draw a million new visitors a year to the Square. High rise buildings will stand over Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets, and a mall will occupy half a block adjacent to Holyoke Center...
Changes have been expected ever since the trustees of the Kennedy Corporation--the group overseeing construction of the Center--announced their plan in the mid sixties to move onto the MBTA site. A year ago, the Cambridge Planning Office began assembling a seven-volume master plan to cope with the difficulties thought likely to arise...
...Extension of the MBTA subway lime out to Fresh Pond or another point near Alewife Brook Parkway, Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
Outlines of the JFK Center itself are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be turned over to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, to be called Commonwealth plaza in recognition of Massachusett's grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the area. At least 600 parking spaces, more likely 1000, will be provided by the Center. The ceremonial entrance to the Center will open at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston...
...said yesterday that she wanted a debate to "bring the issues to the people." She criticizes the spiralling tax rate, the crime in the streets, and the inefficient administration but her fiscal program, rather than proposing a feasible fiscal savings program, wants to make Summerthing concerts free, to reduce MBTA fares for Boston residents, and to lower Boston car insurance--hardly a program of fiscal austerity...