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In article <1993Jan11.161351.29125@odi.com>, ed@odi.com (Ed Schwalenberg) writes:
|> 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.

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Fred Salvucci has not been Secretary of Transportation for 2 years.
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