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Harvard will now build an automobile underpass under Cambridge St., and in return the City will close off part of Kirkland St. behind Memorial Hall. The roof of the underpass and the abandoned part of Kirkland St. will be landscaped to form a continuos pedestrian path between the two parts of the Harvard campus...
During the week, the lawyers worked on two problems. First, they drew up papers by which the City agreed to transfer the section of Kirkland St. back to Harvard. And second, they worked out agreements under which the University guaranteed to build the underpass and also grant temporary usage of Kirkland St. until new alternate routes are provided...
Construction on the underpass will probably begin this spring and be completed by sometime in 1967. While the underpass is being built, two temporary roads will be constructed. One, carrying east to west traffic, will cut across Memorial Hall's triangular plot and pass within 20 ft. of the back of the Littauer Center of Public Administration. The other, coming from Harvard Square and carrying west to east traffic, will make a sharp turn in front of Littauer and then connect with Broadway...
Harvard first proposed the underpass last spring. Throughout the debate over the project, the University emphasized that the underpass would not only permit the unification of two parts of the campus but would also eliminate a dangerous traffic situation in front of Littauer...
...vehicles -- including a significant number of trucks, trailers, and busses -- would have been directed down Sumner Road. Sumner would have received the influx of traffic because Quincy St. between Kirkland and Cambridge Streets would have been made one-way. The only convenient way for cars and trucks leaving the underpass to get to Kirkland St. would have been via Sumner Road...