Word: salvucci
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were days many environmentalists consider Salvucci's work anathema. They deride Salvucci's pet project, Scheme Z--a proposed highway exchange in East Cambridge to which Salvucci has devoted 20 years of his life, calling it "the ugliest structure in New England" and an "environmental nightmare...
...Secretary of Transportation under former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, Salvucci established himself as the staunchest advocate of the plan of build the 16-lane, 11-story interstate loop...
Ironically, more than 20 years ago, Salvucci was considered the driving force behind the widespread community protest which beat another highway exchange--the Inner Belt--a proposed traffic loop that would have circled around Boston and hosing in Cambridge...
...They were working-class people who didn't have the money or political power to fight [the Inner Belt]," Salvucci says. "These people shopped in certain places, went to church in certain places, did Boy Scouts in certain places. You couldn't just up and kick them...
Critics lament what they call a complete reversal in Salvucci's earlier ideals...