Word: underpasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiggins wrote City Manager John J. Curry '19 last Thursday asking formal permission to build the underpass. The letter, which was transmitted to the City Council yesterday, read in part...
...University has asked the City for permission to create a huge pedestrian mall next to Memorial Hall by closing part of Kirkland St. and building a 400-foot underpass beneath Cambridge St. The $2 million project would mean anyone could walk from the Yard to the Law School without crossing a street...
...underpass would stretch from in front of Memorial Hall to Peabody Square in front of the Littauer Center for Public Administration. In return for the closed section of Kirkland St.--from Oxford St. to Kosciuszko Sq.--the University has offered slightly more than 11,000 sq. ft. of ground. The land, adjacent to existing roadways, would be used to widen Quincy St. next to Memorial Hall and Cambridge St. in front of Littauer...
...news media, publicity spread faster than cracks in a Massachusetts highway. Time ran a half-page feature beginning "Stretching its wheelbase, spreading its strack, strapping its concrete hands across the land, the automobile inches humanity back and back...." Life supported the anti-underpass campaign in an editorial decrying poor urban planning...
Governor Peabody was contacted and he pledged his support, but only after the election, since he was courting the support of McCann and Rep. John I. Toomey (D-Cam.) then chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee an ardent underpass advocate...