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...number of organizations, besides the Committee on the Inner Belt and residents of the Brookline-Elm area, had urged that the Council accept the committee's recommended route along Portland and Albany Streets in East Cambridge. A group of six M.I.T. planners, opposing the Institute's position, supported the Portland-Albany route yesterday, and the Cambridge League of Women Voters reiterated a stand it had made earlier
...other possible locations for the highway have been proposed. The first would follow railroad tracks in East Cambridge and probably destroy a number of M.L.T. laboratories near the tracks. The second, a few blocks to the West, would follow Portland and Albany Streets. This alignment has been endorsed by the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a group of private planners...
...four possible routes prominently mentioned, all will wreak havoc. Two variations down Brookline and Elm Streets near Central Square will up-root between 3000 and 5000 families and claim several thousand jobs. One alignment further East, down Portland and Albany Streets on the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus, will take from 2300 to 5000 jobs (depending on whose figures you believe). And a third possible route, using the right-of-way along railroad tracks running through part of M.I.T.'s campus, will take a significant number of laboratories as well as claiming more than a thousand jobs and several hundred...
...Cambridge Committee for the Inner Belt, a private group of planners, has recommended a design down Portland and Albany Streets. They calculate that this route will claim approximately 2300 jobs--the figure has been challenged, and, in reality, its validity depends upon whether the Polaroid Corporation will move most of its operations outside the City if some of its physical plant is taken. Although the company has said it will have to consider such a move, the probability is that it will find some way of adapting to the new situation. In any case, as heavy as the cost...
...presentation, however, the Committee for the Inner Belt claimed that it had designed the Portland-Albany St. route so as not to take more than one part of one Polaroid building. The Committee plans to show its revised design of the route to the company...