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Most observers believe that the DPW will now select the Brookline-Elm St. route for the Belt. This path, long favored by the state agency, passes within several blocks of Central Square and would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people...
Frequently mentioned as alternatives to Brookline-Elm, which would pass several blocks of Central Square and uproot between 3000-5000 people, two alignments further to the east. Both of these lie on the fringe of the campus and are opposed by the Institute...
...march was intended to protest particularly the Brookline Elm St. route, the path favored by the State Department of Public Works that would uproot between 3000-5000 people...
Meeting as a special committee on the Inner Belt, the Council took no official position on an alternate route for the Brookline-Elm St. location, which would uproot between 3000 and 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. However, the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, a private group of planners, strongly urged that the City recommend a path along Albany and Portland Streets in East Cambridge...
What the Inner Belt threatens to do is uproot nearly five per cent of the City's population and pass within two blocks of Central Square. The Inner Belt itself will have eight lanes and the service roads that must run parallel to it will add another four or six. Clearly, the prospect isn't either pretty or pleasing, and the City Council has consistently informed the Commonwealth of its opposition to "any and all Belt routes" through Cambridge...