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Senator Francis X. McCann (D-Cambridge) whose legislative bill originally authorized the underpasses along Memorial Drive, last night charged that political motivation was behind at least some of the opposition to their construction...
...McCann labelled John R. Moot '48, one of the leaders of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, as the source of political friction...
...innocent enough: simply to build some passes under or over Memorial Drive, on the Cambridge side of the Charles River so that traffic could move along at the same quick clip as on the well-under passed Storrow Drive on the Boston side. In 1962, State Senator Francis X. McCann got a bill through the legislature ordering the Metropolitan District Commission to build the needed underpasses and overpasses...
Among the latter, however, were two legislation from Cambridge--Rep. John J. Toomey and Sen. Francis X. McCann, both Democrats. McCann sponsored the original legislation, and Toomey is chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee...
...McCann concurred that the chances for repeal were negligible, since it would be easy to strangle Mrs. Newman's bill with State House red tape. "We've got them up the stream with no paddle," he said...