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...cross Rte. 495 or he's broken his promise to the American public," Orren said. "We'll see if he edges across the thruway...
...least shovel our way out onto what used to be the road. The cliff was still there above us and in the distance, we could make out the Alta Lodge and the middle chair lift. But Rte. 106 was obscured under eight feet of snow. Where there had been cars on Christmas day there were now only the tops of antennas. They dug those out in the spring, too. The only route out of Little Cottonwood Canyon was over several miles of snowdrift...
...legal issue centers on an environmental impact statement (EIS) which was prepared when the MBTA planned to extend the Red Line to Rte. 128. The MBTA claims that this impact statement can be applied to its current extension project, even though the line is planned to go only as far as the Alewife Brook Parkway...
...Line. Danehy's view is typical of Cambridge citizens--in one sense--it is symbolic of the growing sense of frustration with this project, an idea that has been in the works since 1939. Nearly everybody wants the Red Line extended somewhere--be it to Alewife, Rte. 128 or farther--but almost nobody is very happy with the current MBTA plans...
Cambridge and the MBTA both have a choice to make. If the citizens and the city council are expecting the MBTA to extend the line all the way to Rte. 128, something it is not financially equipped to do today, they should probably think again. But if the MBTA plans to extend the Red Line to the Alewife area, it can not ignore citizens' moral and legal claims. The MBTA may be gambling with all its chips if it does not perform a supplementary EIS before a federal district court orders one. Cambridge citizens are gambling another EIS would reject...