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Minutewoman: Everything is asleep--except the evil underpass-building MDC agents, that is. They will come in the dawn one day and snatch away our sycamores in the flowering of their youth. We must guard them--with our lives, if necessary...
Traffic experts, several city officials, and a leading opponent of the Memorial Drive underpasses yesterday privately criticized ex-Governor John A. Volpe's proposal to save the "now famous sycamores" by eliminating the access roads to the projected Boylston Street underpass...
...said that by eliminating the access roads to the Boylston St. underpass, the advantages of better traffic flow could be enjoyed while still preserving the sycamores. He asked the Metropolitan District Commission, which will build the underpasses, to study the proposal...
...Simply by eliminating access roads between Memorial Drive and Boylston Street," he said, "perhaps the trees could be saved and the proposed underpass could still be constructed...
Under this plan, through traffic on Memorial Drive would pass under Boylston Street via the projected underpass; motorists wishing to make turns between the Drive and Boylston Street would use existing side streets...