Word: traffice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exchange, originally suggested last November by Robert E. Rudolph, Cambridge Director of Traffic, portions of Kirkland and Oxford Streets would go to the University. Cambridge, in return, would receive land in front of Littauer Center plus the right to build a footbridge from a point near Littauer to the Yard...
...could get a pedestrian overpass, both Harvard and Cambridge would benefit," Rudolph added. He said that the trade "would give Harvard sites, and would give Cambridge a better traffic pattern...
Cambridge Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 seemed more enthusiastic about the proposal. Rounding out the corner where Cambridge St. bends around Littauer would be a significant improvement to traffic flow, Crane said, although he cautioned that individual decisions of this kind "must be weighed on their merits...
Price then wrote a short memorandum that the Planning Office used for estimating the size and expense of the building. The office also studied peripheral problems, like the center's effect on the Harvard Square traffic problem...
...most experience in city planning, and the Kennedy Library will be an immense city planning project. (It has been estimated that five million people a year may come to the library in the first few years. Consider the effect of that little increase in Harvard Square traffic. Or consider the parking problem.) Again, he has experience in Cambridge--he designed the Cecil and Ida Green Building, Center for the Earth Sciences, which towers over M.I.T...