Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...land on which Scheme Z will be built has for many years served as a trasportation corridor. Most of the land is undeveloped, cluttered with sand pits and railroad tracks...
Even though the compelling reasons Cambridge has used to oppose previous highway projects do not apply to Scheme Z, Cambridge has a right to complain. The problem with Scheme Z goes beyone what it will bring to East Cambridge. The real problem is what it will keep away. If Scheme Z goes through, no matter how wonderful the effects will be for Boston, North Point in East Cambridge will be doomed to remain a transportation corridor forever...
...size of Boston Common. What person can relax, play or enjoy a park while thousand of cars circle above their head? No new housing can be built in the shadow of a colossal series of ramps and roads pooring soot and noise down on the land below. As Scheme Z opponent Gladys P. Gifford says, "You can't mitigate a monster...
...Scheme Z won't wreck much--there isn't much there to wreck--but its sheer size and the smog it will create will keep all positive development out of North Point. Problems of aesthetics and traffic that have plagued Boston will be dumped on Cambridge. State officals should stop and look again for a more palatable alternative...
...EASY to find an alternative. Salvucci and his department came up with 32 options (including Scheme A through Z, AA through DD and Schemes A and Q modified, for the record) before settling on Scheme Z. And Cambridge must understand that even a modified Scheme Z or a complete replacement will still be very large and extremely unattractive. In the real world, individual communities must sacrifice for the good of the Commonwealth...