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...TRAFFIC: The East Cambridge groups also pose the question of the environmental effects of additional traffic generated by the offices and businesses that the CRA hopes to locate in Kendall Square and raise the ancient spectre of an Inner Belt through Cambridge...
...Planning Department report also warned of the harm such traffic might inflict on East Cambridge and chided the CRA for ignoring the City's transportation policy, which encourages mass transportation and discourages automobiles...
...CRA has responded that truck traffic from manufacturing uses would be even more debilitating to the neighborhood and that the Inner Belt does not fall within the Authority's province...
...PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY: Opinion at the hearings has run largely against the CRA thus far. Thompson allows that the CTOC and Hard Times represent more than a small minority of the city, but questions whether they speak for the majority of Cambridge's citizens...
While some community groups see the redevelopment authority as a representative of the "banking and development interests" in Cambridge, CRA officials maintain that it is only a facilitator of the City's urban renewal goals and does not have a vested interest in any particular plan. "We don't do anything until the city gives the word," Remer says. "We've always taken our sailing orders from the Council...