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...remark as a negotiating “ploy,” since Harvard has focused for months on getting permission for the passageway. Also, in an agreement that was recently abandoned, Harvard offered millions of dollars worth of benefits to the neighborhood in exchange for the tunnel...
...Power’s statement was a ploy, no one from the community bit last night. With applause and nods, the group agreed once again last night on an informal motion that they oppose the tunnel, which residents have said would bring months of disruptive construction and traffic problems to Mid-Cambridge...
...past seven months, the lone problem has been the tunnel, which planners have described as crucial to CGIS—but it has also become the project’s Achilles’ heel, as obtaining the easement for the tunnel requires permission from two-thirds of the Cambridge city council...
Councillors have often and loudly stated that they do not want to support the tunnel until they see a public benefit for Mid-Cambridge, the neighborhood in which Harvard plans to locate the CGIS...
...April, when the tunnel first came up for city council vote, the councillors postponed making a decision and instead created a negotiating team of representatives from Harvard, the city and Mid-Cambridge, expressing the hope that a mutually beneficial settlement could be reached...