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In article <C0Hs7t.79w@world.std.com> tonym@world.std.com (Tony Matt) writes:
  Well, once upon a time there was a plan to build the Southwest 
  Expressway, Inner Loop, and a Rte. 2 freeway through Cambridge,
  which would have provided alternatives to the Central Artery
  and SE-Xway.  They were stopped by (then) Gov. Frank Sargent
  when the environmetal/urban opposition to being paved over became
  too intense (Al Lupo's _Rights of Way_ is a good narrative on the
  development of the protest).

The "hero" of this book is Fred Salvucci, then a young lawyer.
Now that he's Transportation Secretary, he's on the other side of
the fence.  I was surprised by his role in the recent attempt to
put 8 lanes of double-decker highway between the Route 2 "rotary"
and the Fresh Pond twin rotaries, but it suddenly occurs to me
that perhaps he made this absurd proposal deliberately so it would
be shot down.