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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...
...idea for the underpass--and consequently the pedestrian mall--seems to have come from the University, however. Wiggins said in his letter to Curry that "preliminary investigation indicates that there are no engineering problems involved, and informal talks with various Cambridge City department heads lead us to believe that this plan, if carried out, would be of the greatest benefit to the City...
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...