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...October 25, a Task Force of the Cambridge Advisory Committee asked the MBTA to deepen its tunnel up Mass. Ave. so that an automobile underpass could be built over the tunnel...
Members of the CAC suggested that the MBTA consider diverting some of the buses to Porter Square, or redesigning the bus tunnel to permit a parallel automobile underpass. James F. Farr '33, chairman of the CAC Committee on Harvard Square, said they would meet "soon and often" with the MBTA to iron out the difficulties...
Rudolph began the new pattern last summer, to facilitate construction of Harvard's Cambridge St. underpass. He said that work on the underpass is now far enough along to allow resumption of the old pattern. Waterhouse Street, Garden Street and Mass. Ave. north of the Square will once again be two-way streets...
...first traffic will be limited to two lanes in each direction, but the underpass will be equipped for future expansion to three lanes heading both east and west...
...Rudolph, the four-major bottlenecks in the Harvard Square area have traditionally been Harvard Square, Brattle Square, the intersection of Cambridge St. and Massachusetts Avenue, and the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets. Rudolph's new traffic pattern is designed to cut down the first three problems; the new underpass is expected to handle the fourth. When the underpass is completed, the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets will be eliminated and cars are expected to move much more quickly through the area. But until work stops next June, students living close to the underpass will probably not think about...