Word: mdc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vellucci speculated "there is a possibility that they may be coming from the MDC draining project underway at Magazine Beach, or then again they may be from anywhere along the river. At any rate they are most certainly a health hazard and people of that neighborhood are frightened...
...MDC had stated that the number of trees to be destroyed would be reduced by 18. Eliot said the old plans called for the destruction of 95 trees; under the new plans 117 trees (42 sycamores and 74 maples) will be transplanted or destroyed. (A transplanted sycamore's life expectancy is uncertain at best...
...MDC had also claimed that 11,500 square feet of park land would be saves under the new plans. Eliot, however, pointed out in his report that the underpasses are planned to be 52 feet wide. Memorial Drive is only 40 feet wide, so the intent of the MDC seems obvious: the underpass construction is the first step toward turning the Drive into an expressway...
Engineers for the MDC project have decided to shorten the proposed tunnel under Boylston Street by about 20 feet. In a recent vote the MDC also asserted that they would replant upstream from the Larz Anderson Bridge many of the 19 sycamores due to be removed...
...also pointed out that the MDC's promise to transplant the uprooted sycamore trees is largely unrealistic since "sycamore trees have such spreading roots that they cannot be transplanted...