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COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Melinda J. McAdams, M.M. Merwin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...Zimmerman said that boat buildup is "not aninsurmountable problem." All in all, he said theproposal is "not a bad idea...
...Still, Zimmerman said the boat would affect theenvironment positively, with few drawbacks. "Anytime you can get people out of single occupancyvehicles...you've just done something good for theenvironment," he said...
Whether the boat would be more efficient forcommuters, Zimmerman said, is another story. Thespeed limit on the Charles is currently six milesper hour, he said. At the pace, it would take atlest an hour to traverse the proposed route. "Youcan almost walk from Watertown to Cambridge orBoston in that time," Zimmerman said...
Cold winter weather, which frequently freezesthe Charles' surface, might also impede a watershuttle. But Zimmerman said a bubbler apparatus,such as those used on upstate New York's LakeChamplain, would keep the water open...