Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...assignment followed the idea of covering the subway yards with a terrace and building a housing development on top. Moving the yards out altogether, however, makes the plan much easier and more practical. The development might also include badly-needed parking space, a theatre, a few attractive first-floor shops, and a hockey rink...
...recommends specific proposals to City Manager John B. Atkinson and the City Council. Another, Harvard's Graduate School of Design, contributes additional ideas. Plans have been drawn up for building an expressway from downtown Boston through North Station and Cambridge to the Concord Turnpike, for moving the Cambridge subway yards north, and for eliminating many of the Harvard-owned tenements. As a first step, the state has just approved construction of the section of the proposed expressway from downtown Boston to North Station...
...plan to extend subway from Harvard Square to North Cambridge and to move the storage yards and repair shops now located at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston Street to the new location was released by the City Planning Board at the beginning of this year. They suggested building a municipally-owned garage on the present site...
Atkinson thinks the long-range idea is sound. The addition to the subway route will open a large new area for efficient subway transportation. The new subway tunnel may be built with reinforced walls so that it could serve as a bomb shelter, like one being planned in New York City. But, even more important to Harvard, the transfer of the yards will remove an old eyesore near the College and make available for constructive use valuable land equal in size to Eliot, Winthrop, Kirkland, and Lowell Houses combined...
...best guess of the expense of extending the subway and moving out the yards comes to many millions. Several years ago a study was made of possible routes and costs, but is was not accurate. A bill providing for a new study and estimate of costs by the M.T.A. has been reported favorably by the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs and is now pending in the House Ways and Means Committee...