Word: underpasses
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...underpass controversy goes to court, the Citizens' Committee would try to prove that the underpasses are part of an MDC plan to turn the Drive into an expressway. MDC Commissioner Robert F. Murphy has denied that he has such a plan, but a report prepared by the commission's traffic consultants concedes that only widening the Drive will improve its traffic flow...
...decisions seemed to mark a small victory for Cambridge anti-underpass groups, since the approved designs, the most expensive of those submitted, are the least destructive to the Charles River shoreline...
...Boylston St. intersection the five members of the MDC unanimously chose an "extended-portal" underpass that would allow Weld Boat House to remain standing. For River St. and Western Ave, they approved by a 4-1 vote 1100-foot tunnels running beneath both roads...
...extended Boylston St. underpass, to be about 400 feet long, was preferred to a more conventional design that would have forced the demolition of Weld Boat House. The approved design will cost approximately $2.2 million to build, as compared to $1.3 million for the conventional underpass...
...vote was significantly closer than on the previous underpass bill, which was defeated by 109-76. Rep. William P. Homans '41 (D-Cambridge), the sponsor of the most recent bill, attributed the gain to a broadening of debate on the bill to include more than purely local issues...