Word: uproots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge, both routes will be costly. Brookline-Elm displaces from 1200 to 1500 families, claims 2300 jobs and runs straight through Central Square. The Portland-Albany route would eliminate, at a minimum, the same number of jobs and uproot about 150 families. Moreover, it would run through and industrial area near M.I.T. which promises to attract a considerable amount of future research and defense industry. Given these relative costs, however, the Portland-Albany route seems the lesser of two evils...
...opponents of the eight-lane highway, the governor's announcement was an important victory and a significant setback for the Brookline-Elm St. route. This route, fought for years by the City, threatens to go straight through Cambridge's largest commercial district -- Central Square -- and uproot between 3000 and 5000 residents...
...continuing fight against the Inner Belt Highway must not make Cambridge lose sight of the terrible problems that the highway will cause if the fight is unsuccessful. The expressway, all eight lanes of it, will uproot between 3000 and 5000 people, and thereby aggravate an already serious shortage of middle and lower income housing...
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...