Word: ring
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Initial estimates assess the whole project at about $3 billion. But given that the Big Dig has ballooned over budget, the costs of the urban ring could possibly end up far greater than this initial figure...
Historically, the urban ring corridor has been home to working-class families and neighborhoods. The median income for the corridor is 62 percent of the median income for eastern Mass. and 40 percent of the residents minorities, Garver said...
Gentrification and potential displacement of residents should also be concerns in the urban ring discussion, said Penn Loh, a Roxbury-based environmental justice advocate...
...idea of an urban ring is not a new one. The proposed project would trace a similar past as old plans for an Inner Belt Expressway—a highway project proposed in the early 1970s that then-Governor Francis W. Sargent cancelled...
...last 12 years, support for an urban ring has grown. This spring, the Conservation Law Foundation, an influential environmental group known for suing the state to clean up Boston Harbor, added its name to the list of supporters when it published a paper calling for the development of urban ring transit...