Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...greatly shocked at TIME'S Oct. 6 handling of the Nevada interchanges. It is regrettable that by context you accuse us of boondoggling in the building of the structures or freeways in reference. We have a beautiful and efficient freeway here that is a sound investment of road users' dollars...
...history of the Boston toll road-freeway controversy has been one of sudden compromise, of veiled threats, and of panic in the face of a clock that is running down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and around the $200 million Prudential Center at Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street. In the second the principal actor was Mayor Donald L. Gibbs of Newton...
...late January, Volpe proposed an alternate route (a freeway west of the B & A) and almost threw a bomb into Callahan's works. If the expressway were to follow the Volpe route, it would not pass under the Center. Since any change at all in the expressway plans would have drawn a considerable amount of Prudential blood, the company's executives laid down an ultimatum. They did not care what kind of road (viz. free or toll) went through, so long as it went underneath the Center. Without a clarifying decision from the Supreme Judicial Court before its summer recess...
...first power plays as governor, Volpe demanded a freeway because "our motorists and our economy demand immediate action." But, in a sudden "compromise" with Callahan on February 4, Volpe agreed to a toll road down the B & A. Said he: "At this time it was a choice between a freeway and the Prudential Center. In view of the importance of the Center, I cannot in good conscience stand...
After the Callahan-Volpe pact, attention shifted to Mayor Gibbs of Newton, who had been an opponent of the toll road since its inception. Although reconciled to the need for a link between the Massachusetts Pike and Boston, Gibbs championed a freeway that would edge Waltham and Watertown, that would go down along the banks of the Charles River and thereby reduce large tax losses that might result from the demolition of industrial and residential property in Newton...