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...State Department of Public Works took the easy way out last Friday. It selected the Brookline-Elm St. route over the alternate Portland-Albany location for the eight-lane Inner Belt highway. There was no surprise in the announcement; the DPW has long favored Brookline-Elm. Construction will be cheaper and easier -- had the alternate route been chosen, the department would have had to make extra efforts to stabilize the highway in the shifty subsoil of the Charles River Basin. The DPW would also have had to admit to the federal government (which pays 90 per cent of the highway...
...route, along Brookline and Elm street, would take the highway straight through the City near Central Square and, in the process, uproot between 3000 and 5000 people. Another possible path for the highway would run through an industrial area in the Eastern part of the City. The DPW is expected to select the Brookline-Elm St. route--one which has aroused strong opposition in Cambridge, but which the DPW actually approved last spring. This approval was subsequently withdrawn in the fall when Gov. John A. Volpe ordered a review of the project...
Yesterday's development left one large question in the minds of opponents of the highway. How serious would the review by the state DPW...
...members of the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt said last night that they would refuse an invitation to work with the DPW unless Volpe made it clear that he had "irrevocably rejected" the Brookline-Elm route. The two men, Denis Blackett and Robert Goodman, declared in a statement...
...issue is simply and clearly whether or not the Governor is willing to reject a route which will displace over six per cent of the City's population and disrupt low-income, integrated neighborhoods." They said they would see Volpe and the DPW soon...