Word: portland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previously expressed opposition to the two other routes, the only two considered as practical alternates to Brookline-Elm. The first of these, the "railroad route," runs right along the outer edge of the M.I.T. campus and would have destroyed a number of laboratories; the second, is the Portland-Albany route, is several blocks beyond the campus, but within the area where the university may someday expand...
Yesterday's meeting was an attempt to get the Institute to soften its position on the Portland-Albany route, the one now favored by opponents of Brookline-Elm. Thus far, the Institute's public resistance to this second route has not been as vigorous as its opposition to the railroad alignment...
...Inner Belt's opponents were unable to budge Killian. According to reliable sources, Killian was skeptical about the number of jobs the Portland- Albany route would take--its supporters have said it would take only 2300 jobs, the same number that the Brookline Elm would claim, and displace 150 families as opposed to the Brookline...
Working with a special committee from Cambridge, the DPW will now study plans for a Portland-Albany St. alignment for the highway. The designers of this route, a private group of planners called the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, claim that it will displace both fewer jobs and families than the Brookline-Elm route. The Portland-Albany St. path is located East of Central Square just beyond the outer edge of the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Another factor considered by leaders of the anti-Belt campaign is the reaction of M.I.T. to the apparent new strength of the Portland-Albany route. Last winter, the Institute vigorously opposed another route (the "railroad alignment") nearer to the campus as well as the Portland-Albany location. It is not known, however, whether the Institute's opposition to the Portland-Albany route is as firm as its opposition to the railroad location