Word: basin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rowing is concerned, the filling in of the shores will not seriously shorten the courses in the lower Basin, and the substitution of a sloping beach for the present granite wall will reduce the rough water which reflects back from this wall on account of the prevailing westerly winds...
...following article commenting on the proposed changes in the Charles River Basin was written for the Crimson by C. W. Killam, Professor of Architecture and chairman of the Cambridge Planning Board...
...report of the Special Commission on the Charles River Basin is now before the Legislature. It proposes to complete the parks and drives on both sides of the Basin from the Charles River Dam to the dam just above Watertown Square. To increase the park and playground area and to provide for continuation of the drives, the banks of the Basin are to be filled in on the Boston side to a maximum of about four hundred feet...
...fenced out of the drive. The Boston-Brookline traffic, it is believed, would be in part deflected from Beacon St, and Commonwealth Ave, to the new drive under the Harvard Bridge arches and thus the present congestion of Boston-Cambridge traffic on Massachusetts Ave would be relieved. The Basin drive would also run under the arches of the Longfellow Bridge and therefore relieve further congestion at Cambridge and Charles Sts. This new drive along the Boston side which is thus seen to be of primary importance for traffic to Cambridge and towns to the north and west of Cambridge...
...next four years is estimated to be about $4,250,000. Of this sum Mrs. J. J. Storrow's gift will pay $1,000,000, the state highway fund $850,000., Boston $150,000., as its share of an overpass from Commonwealth Ave, at St. Paul St. to the Basin drive, and Cambridge $160,000 as, its share of the underpass for Memorial Drive at Massachusetts Ave. The balance of the cost, estimated at about $2,100,000, would be paid by the cities and towns of the Metropolitan Parks District in proportion to their assessed valuation. The share...