Word: walkways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During one five minute period, he said, 33 of 40 pedestrians walked in the traffic lane of Quincy St, because of the fence, which runs down the middle of the sidewalk, leaving only a two-foot walkway a path impaired by several poles...
...Morse Payne, a member of the design team, said that the TAC project, first announced last May, hinges on the legal and financial cooperation of the dozen property-owner whose buildings the walkway would adjoin. Speaking at the First Parish Church in Cambridge yesterday, he said that with some exceptions, the businessmen have as yet offered no firm commitment...
...Collaborative has estimated the total cost of the walkway at $823,000. Further expenses, such as new construction at the second level and new store-fronts for existing buildings, could cost in additional...
Aimed at enhancing the "shopping experience" for Harvard Square pedestrians, the proposed split-level walkway would stretch from the Yard to Mt. Auburn St., weaving in and around the buildings of the Square in such a way that "a whole new level of activity is created, undivided by streams of vehicular traffic," as described by the TAC proposal...
Payne, who taught at the Graduate School of Design until 1963, spoke of the walkway web as "tame, non-aggressive" redevelopment, contrasting it with massive, "visionary" schemes such as those proposed by the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority and "Team Monad," a group of former GSD students...