Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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State officials say the plan--referred to as the Non-River Tunnel (NRT) design--will be the most aesthetic, cost-efficient and environmentally sound solution to Boston's traffic snarl...
...plan is] terrible," said City Councillor Alice K. Wolf. "Not only the City of Cambridge, but the whole review committee, which was made of up of many different people, wanted an alternative that included a tunnel...
...plan favored by city councillors butrejected by state officials had one 10-lane bridgeand a three-lane tunnel under the river. It wouldhave cost $150 million more than the oneeventually chosen by Kerasiotes...
City Councillor Sheila T. Russell called it"environmentally unsound" because of the increasedexhaust the many lanes of trafficwill cause. Still, planners defend the proposal asmore environmentally sound than the city'spreference--a tunnel under the Charles River...
...When you have to tunnel underneath and disruptthe river, you disrupt the watershed," said TomMalcolm, public information supervisor for theCentral Artery/Tunnel project...