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Work on the underpass is now about 25 per cent complete--and slightly behind schedule. One factor slowing down construction is this summer's unusually heavy rainfall. The underpass is still nothing more than a gigantic hole in the ground and the rainwater it collects has made construction in some spots very difficult, if not impossible...
Although the City of Cambridge was not a party in the contract between Harvard and the construction company, it did have to give its approval to the plans. The construction of the underpass has caused extensive disruption in traffic all over the City; the new traffic pattern--which has turned seven formerly two-way thoroughfares in the Harvard Square area into one-way streets--was required to ease the problem...
When work is completed next summer, cars moving west along Broadway or Cambridge St. will go sharply downhill beginning at the fire station. The underpass itself will begin at a spot near Hunt Hall and will extend approximately 400 feet to about Phillips Brooks House where the cars will climb back to the surface. Traffic heading in the opposite direction will begin the descent close to Mower Hall. Before climbing back to the surface, these cars will be able to choose between heading left on Cambridge St. or right on Broadway...
There have traditionally been four major traffic bottlenecks in the Harvard Square area. The rotary around the Common will eliminate the problem at Cambridge and Mass. Ave.; the Cambridge St. underpass will eliminate the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge, thus ending that problem; and Rudolph's new one-way streets have largely cleaned up Brattle and Harvard Squares. Once the MBTA Kiosk is removed from Harvard Square the situation will be better still...
DeGuglielmo's ban will not apply to zoning variances or building permits already approved. Nor will it apply to existing construction, including the building of Harvard $2.8 million Cambridge St. Underpass...