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...City of Cambridge will obviously undergo substantial changes because of the Library. The planning of parking, access, and facilities for the floods of visitors has already led the MBTA to consider re-routing its Harvard-Ashmont line. In the meantime, land values in the library area have jumped by more than 100 per cent...
Administration officials hope the Corporation will give final approval to their plan today. Getting started on the Tenth House has been one of the most frustrating experiences in recent years. In the early part of the decade, Harvard sought to locate the House on the Bennett St. MBTA yards. Unable to acquire this site, the College shifted its attention to its second choice -- the location behind Dunster...
They reason that the presence of the Library on the Bennett St. MBTA Yards will raise land values in adjoining areas and encourage disjointed growth in the Brattle St. area...
...University will study how deep the tunnel should go, and how thick the concrete shell of the tunnel should be, to minimize surface effects of the subway. Goyette emphasized, however, that until the MBTA makes final its design for the extension, the University will be unable to begin 'detailed studies...
Goyette foresaw a possible conflict between the University and the MBTA: to accommodate Harvard and Radcliffe by minimizing noise and vibration, the MBTA might have to increase the cost of the Cambridge extension...